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"… they didn't really know what was good and was not good…." — The late Bernard Stollman, who reportedly died at 85 on Monday, April 20, 2015 "And…
(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…
See orange, black, green at The Daily Princetonian and in this journal.
The previous post mentioned a new mobile, "Triangle Constellation," commissioned for the Harvard Art Museums. Related material (click to enlarge) — The above review is of an exhibition by the…
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…
A companion-piece to Sunday's Sermon for the Cruelest Month — Click the above paragraph for further details.
Update of 11:45 PM ET the same day — See also remarks by Freeman Dyson on the novel A High Wind in Jamaica quoted here Sunday morning. From an…
See also Little Mermaid in this journal.
This year, Easter Sunday fell on April 5. NBC on that date: "It was necessary to call upon the full force of Roman law…" From a Washington Post obituary…
Continued from a post of April 10, 2015 — Maya Angelou stamp with misattributed quote and Oprah on April 7, 2015 Trailer for "Welcome to Me" published on Feb. 23, 2015 —…