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Night at the Museum

Or:  The Long, Long Trailer See also a Log24 post from the date of the above tweet: Welcome to the Ape Stuff.

Day at the Museum

“So it’s the laughter we will remember.”  Speak for yourself, Barbra.

Elementary Galois Geometry

The image search (2.26 MB).

Educational Series

Barron’s Educational Series (click to enlarge): The Tablet of Ahkmenrah:  “With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik, my power will know no bounds!” — Kahmunrah…

Raiders of the Inarticulate

On Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators : “Yet as the book’s five hundred–plus pages unwind, Isaacson interrupts himself to present small bromides about what it means to innovate and…

Mathematics and Narrative, continued:

Raiders of the Lost Archetype “… an unexpected development: the discovery of a lost archetype….” — “The Lost Theorem,” by Lee Sallows, Mathematical Intelligencer, Fall 1997 Related material:…

Seeking Kleos

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, quoted in a webpage dated October 7, 2014 (presumably according to Australian time): "For the Athenians, kleos  mattered more than anything, according to Goldstein. 'Kleos  is fame: it’s the deed…

A Forkèd Tongue

This post was suggested by today's previous posts, Broom Bridge Day and Taking the Fork, as well as by Alyssa is  Wonderland. For the meaning of the title, see Serpent +…

Taking the Fork

Related material:  Alyssa Milano in this journal —

Broom Bridge Day

Wikipedia on Broom (or Broome, or Brougham) Bridge, where on 16 October 1843 Hamilton discovered quaternions: "The 16 October is sometimes referred to as Broomsday (in reference to Broome…