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Soul

Nonsense… See Gary Zukav, Harvard '64, in this journal. and damned  nonsense — "Every institution has a soul." — Gerald Holton in Harvard Gazette  today Commentary — "The Ferris wheel…

Ghosts and Shadows

For Poetry Month From the home page of Alexandre Borovik: Book in progress: Shadows of the Truth This book (to be published soon) can be viewed as a sequel to Mathematics…

Colorful Tale

(A sequel to yesterday's ART WARS and this morning's De Colores ) “Perhaps the philosophically most relevant feature of modern science is the emergence of abstract symbolic structures…

Purely Aesthetic

G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology — What ‘purely aesthetic’ qualities can we distinguish in such theorems as Euclid’s or Pythagoras’s? I will not risk more than a…

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…

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…

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…

The Starbird Manifesto

"But what was supposed to be the source of a compound's authority? Why, the same as that of all new religious movements: direct access to the godhead, which in this case was…

Immaculate Inception

See also Midnight Purple and today's previous post.

Core Values

"Yankee Doodle went to London" — Song lyric    “Geometry was very important to us in this movie.” — The Missing ART   (Log24, November 7th, 2014) ART — "Faculty Approve Theater Concentration,…