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Media Equation

New York Times — "David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become a name-brand media columnist at The New York Times ,…

Dead Reckoning

Continued from yesterday. The passage on Claude Chevalley quoted here yesterday in the post Dead Reckoning was, it turns out, also quoted by Peter Galison in his essay "Structure of Crystal,…

Capitalizing Car

As in Carthage — The Eight , a novel by Katherine Neville

For Journalism Jill*

Five W's and an H http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150211/chelsea/60-minutes-bob-simon-killed-west-side-highway-crash-police-network 60 Minutes' Bob Simon Killed in West Side Highway Crash: Police and Network By Janon Fisher on February 11, 2015 11:48pm  CHELSEA — Veteran…

Dead Reckoning

Continued from yesterday evening Today's mathematical birthday —  Claude Chevalley, 11 Feb. 1909 – 28 June 1984. From MacTutor — Chevalley's daughter, Catherine Chevalley, wrote about her father in "Claude Chevalley…

En Masse

Yale Daily News  staff columnist Scott Greenberg today,  in a piece titled "Filling Religion's Void" — "The secularization of college students in America has seemed a foregone conclusion for…

In Memoriam…

… industrial designer Kenji Ekuan — Eightfold Design. The adjective "eightfold," intrinsic to Buddhist thought, was hijacked by Gell-Mann and later  by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, pronounced "misery")….

Touchdown

See also Sabol  in this journal and The Literary Field .

Escape Clause

For Jews of Hungarian background who do not  worship Paul ErdÅ‘s and Rubik's Cube: The Great Escape.

For Blacklist Fans

Drop off the Qi, Li.