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New Year's Greeting from Franz Kafka

An image that led off the year-end review yesterday in the weblog of British combinatorialist Peter J. Cameron: See also this  weblog's post final post of 2014, with a rectangular array illustrating the six…

Spiel ist nicht Spielerei

Huffington Post this morning, noting that today is the birthday of Henri Matisse: "On this most holy of art holidays…."

New Year's Ritual

   From a New York Daily News  video.

Core

JOSEFINE LYCHE ABSOLUTE ALT. VOL. 2 17. april – 23. mai [2015] — "I kjernen av mitt arbeid er en pågående utforskning av esoteriske konsepter…." "At the core of…

The Well Runs Dry

From the obituary of a two-time Oscar winner, Luise Rainer, who reportedly died today at 104 — Her oft-repeated account of her last meeting with [producer Louis B.] Mayer is…

An Education

AP Today in History  Thought for the Day: “I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.” — Wilson Mizner,       American playwright (1876-1933)* From this…

Revolution of Forms

In memory of Cuban architect Ricardo Porro, who died on Christmas Day, 2014: See also Rubik + Revolution and Launched from Cuber.

The Source

Bogus religion from a bogus "research lab" — Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004), pp. 547-570 "Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality" Robert G. Jahn…

Dodecahedron Model of PG(2,5)

Recent posts tagged Sagan Dodecahedron  mention an association between that Platonic solid and the 5×5 grid. That grid, when extended by the six points on a "line at infinity,"…

A Christmas Carol

See also Sagan Dodecahedron, which includes  an image posted at 12 AM ET December 25, 2014: The image stands for the phrase "five by five," meaning "loud and clear."