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A New York Times Sunday Magazine article today about Reek Sunday (the last Sunday in July) suggests a review of that Sunday last year, and hence also of a related post…
The late mathematics educator Zoltan Dienes in 2002 published an article containing the following cryptic confession — "Nowhere will I give away how I stole these patterns from the mathematician's…
See “Babbled” in this journal and … Update of 3:15 AM ET — Suggestions for Terry Gilliam, director of The Zero Theorem and Brazil — See posts of April 26, 2013,…
From this journal on Jan. 26, 2009 — See also "Strip Mathematics," by Zoltan Dienes — This illustration may have first appeared in Dienes's "Mathematical fun without numbers, letters, formulae or…
"Olympic opening ceremonies are a little like a Match.com first date…." — Alessandra Stanley, page D4 of the New York edition of this morning's print NY Times The late poet Rubén…
For the late mathematics educator Zoltan Dienes. "There comes a time when the learner has identified the abstract content of a number of different games and is practically…
Continued from previous post and from Sept. 8, 2009. Examination of the box's contents does not solve the contents' real mystery. That requires knowledge of the non-Euclidean geometry of Galois space. In…
In honor of the tenth anniversary of Facebook Viewed in the Chrome browser, a Facebook post from January 29, 2014, displays an artist's Mystery Box*… In the Internet Explorer browser,…
Moss on the Wall (Continued) Tom Cruise at the Vatican in Mission: Impossible III (2006) — Starring Tom Cruise as Ezekiel Moss, "a mysterious drifter with the divine ability to…
This journal a year ago yesterday— “Some designs work subtly. Others are successful through sheer force.” — Penelope Green Subtly: Sheer force: