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The Greek Fifth Element:

The Dodecahedron . This Platonic solid appears, for instance, on the cover  of a colorful text titled The Heart of Mathematics  (Wiley, third edition, 2009) — For serious  students, here…

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…

Yale Mot

From a New York Post  review of "Clouds of Sils Maria," a film that opened yesterday — "Assayas [the writer-director] evidently thinks he’s being daring and original and avant-garde in leaving…

Living Theater

 "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of …." See also OCODE .

Immaculate Inception

See also Midnight Purple and today's previous post.

Clues for Jews

See Ellen Page as Ariadne.

Eastern Eggheads

This is Holy Week in the Orthodox Church. "The Greek Orthodox tradition is for eggs to be dyed red on Holy Thursday in commemoration of the Last Supper…."…

Easter Translation

See also James Joyce on Humpty-Dumpty  and posts in this  journal from April 10, 2012.

Translation

From an informative April 7 essay in The Nation — In his marvelous book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything , David Bellos demonstrates many of…

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,…