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“A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and developmental sense.” — Van Wedeen, MD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Daily , March…
Quiz: Spell the name of the race of intelligent horses in Gulliver’s Travels . Scarlett Johansson and friend in “The Horse Whisperer” (1998) Some context: “Bee Season” in this journal.
The White Goddess link in the previous post led to, among other things, a discussion of “Yahoo” as a poet’s word. Another poet’s word: Davos.
See a TIME story from yesterday: See also a post from the above date: Friday, May 23, 2014 She Meets Her Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 2:01 PM She…
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Blackboard Jungle , 1955 — Today's online Harvard Crimson :
The mention of Gauss in today's previous post, along with recent news, suggested this post. "How do you get young people excited about space?" — Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012 Further details:…
The American Mathematical Society yesterday: Harvey Cohn (1923-2014) Wednesday September 10th 2014 Cohn, an AMS Fellow and a Putnam Fellow (1942), died May 16 at the age of…
For Loren D. Olson, Harvard '64: "Even 50 years later, I remember his enthusiasm for a very young and very gifted Harvard professor named Shlomo Sternberg, one of…
This post is continued from a March 12, 2013, post titled "Smoke and Mirrors" on art in Tromsø, Norway, and from a June 22, 2014, post on the nineteenth-century mathematicians Rosenhain…