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The Good

"… 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…

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…

De Colores

See orange, black, green at  The Daily Princetonian and in this journal.

ART WARS continued

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…

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…

Tales of Money and Power:

A companion-piece to Sunday's Sermon for the Cruelest Month — Click the above paragraph for further details.

Jamaica Beach

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…

Minimum Lovable Ishtar

See also Little Mermaid in this journal.

The Full Force of Roman Law

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…

Immaculate Inception

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 —…