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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…

Forms of Luminosity

"Visibilities are not forms of objects, nor even forms that would show up under light, but rather forms of luminosity which are created by the light itself and…

Birthdays

Today is the birthday of artist Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and of mathematician Leonhard Euler (b. 1707). For both, a link.

A Trip to Six Years Ago

See a newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) on April 15, 2009. Excerpts, with updated links: "Michael Starbird's Distinguished Lecture, simply titled 'The Fourth Dimension,' was an example…

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…

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*

(Continued from April 9) *… Or a Spearhead?

Hermeneutics for Academics

Würfel-Märchen  continued … "Again, you are free to interpret these symbols  as you like." See also … Through the Looking Glass: A Sort of Eternity — and The Library of…

Deutsche Schule

Continued from December 5, 2002 — Braucht´s noch Text? Un-magical realism for Montevideo.

Unorthodox Easter

(A sequel to yesterday's Orthodox Easter posts) This morning's Google News — The New York Times  on the late Günter Grass — "Many of Mr. Grass’s books are phantasmagorical mixtures of fact…

Symbol of Heaven

Today is Easter Sunday in the Orthodox Church. Two readings: "Ancient Symbol of Heaven" From "Misunderstood Masterpiece," an essay in the Jesuit weekly America  on Salvador Dali's "The Sacrament…