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(Continued from yesterday's "earlier references" link.) Yesterday at the Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine : See also earlier Log24 references to Mathieu moonshine . I do not know the origin of this succinct phrase,…
(Continued) For further details, see USA Today.
Doctor Steam "Everybody's doin' a brand new dance now…" "A corpse will be transported by express!" — Under the Volcano
… for fans of the late C. P. Snow * See earlier references here to that phrase.
1:46 AM March 11, 2015 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time in USA) is 5:46 AM March 11, 2015 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time worldwide). "On March 11, 2011 at 5:46 a.m. Coordinated Universal…
Backstory for the "Surf's Up!" in the previous post: "A Dante for Our Times," Part I and Part II.
Related material: According to Emory University, Sitton "graduated from Emory in 1949, where he served as editor in chief of the Emory Wheel. Sitton returned to Emory to teach…
"… sometimes the best path to short-term goals is through the unplanned byways of the long-term perspective." — Harvard President Drew Faust For one such byway, see the…
From an interview by Glen Duncan with author Susanna Moore published on January 29, 2013 — When did you first realize that you wanted to write fiction? Was there…
"Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" — Title of a book by Douglas Rushkoff, quoted here on Jan. 18, 2015 "Cultural Software: A Theory of…