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Nobel Note

"It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented ​in the scheme of things." — To Ride Pegasus ,      by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47) From a post…

An Early Facebook

"Where have all the flowers gone?" — Rhetorical question by Pete Seeger "It was 1964, a critical juncture in Radcliffe's history." — Elaine DeLott Baker in an historical account   of…

In Memory of Pete Seeger

"Chop Wood, Carry Water" — title of a book by Rick Fields, who was reportedly expelled from Harvard in 1964. "From California to the New York island" — words of a…

Seeger Obits

Seeger reportedly died yesterday — Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. Source: The Porterville (California) Recorder Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014, 11:25 pm (CA time) Associated Press  Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour…

Remembrance

Part I Part II Part III "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."

Blazing Bride's Chair

A sequel to last night's link Shear — Some dead poet's words — The "bride's chair" is the figure illustrating Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem (click image to enlarge) —…

A Dead Poet's Word

For the Tin Men — The word:  Shear.

A Midnight Exorcism

The summoning of the spirit of Bertrand Russell yesterday by Peter J. Cameron at his weblog suggests a review of this  weblog’s posts of Christmas Eve, December 24-25, 2013. (Recall that…

Step

In memory of actress Sarah Marshall — "It's a big step, granted, but it's just one step." — The Twilight Zone , "Little Girl Lost." See also this morning's previous…

Rotatable Hypercube

The archived Java rotatable hypercube of Harry J. Smith is no longer working. For an excellent JavaScript  replacement, see Pete Michaud's http://petemichaud.github.io/4dhypercube/. This JavaScript  version can easily be saved.