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The Acme Corporation Presents…

Kyle Smith on April 15 in the New York Post — "The ludicrous action thriller 'Beyond the Reach' fails to achieve the Southwestern noir potency of 'No Country for…

For Story Time

A book first published by Doubleday in 1979: From Fritz Leiber's 1959 sci-fi classic "Damnation Morning" — She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming implement that looked by…

Library of Paradise

Freeman Dyson in a New York Times  interview online today: "Who is your favorite novelist of all time? Octavia Butler, a tall black lady who died in 2006….

Bing Bang Theory

Continued.

National Library Week

"Celebrate National Library Week 2015 (April 12-18, 2015) with the theme "Unlimited possibilities @ your library®." See also Library of Hell. A page from Princeton University Press on…

Forms of Luminosity

"Visibilities are not forms of objects, nor even forms that would show up under light, but rather forms of luminosity which are created by the light itself and…

Birthdays

Today is the birthday of artist Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and of mathematician Leonhard Euler (b. 1707). For both, a link.

A Trip to Six Years Ago

See a newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on April 15, 2009. Excerpts, with updated links: "Michael Starbird's Distinguished Lecture, simply titled 'The Fourth Dimension,' was an example…

Sacramental Geometry:

The Dreaming Jewels  continued "… the icosahedron and dodecahedron have the same properties of symmetry. For the centres of the twenty faces of an icosahedron may be joined to form…

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*

(Continued from April 9) *… Or a Spearhead?