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Parks and Recreation

From the Associated Press today — "It's a magic wonderland," said Miriam Leibowitz, a Jerusalem resident, as she reached a snow-filled city park with her family. "In the middle…

Happy Chinese Year of the Goat

From YouTube — "Published on Oct 13, 2014" * — Tine Goat Cheese ad by Henry Moore Selder Prod Co: Bacon Agency: Try Oslo Creatives: Caroline Ekrem & Sara Hødnebø *…

In the Place of the Skull

"I CAN TELL you about my friend Andrew, the cognitive scientist. But it’s not pretty." — Opening of Andrew's Brain: A Novel  by      E. L. Doctorow, Random House, Jan. 14,…

The Bluebird of Happiness

(Chinese style)

Song for a Night Bird

"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain and sends birds sailing past the window, spirit birds that ride the night, stranger than dreams." — The end of DeLillo's…

Late

For the late Paul Halmos — Keith Devlin's column is a monthly feature of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). This month's column apparently first appeared online on Tuesday, Feb….

Noon on Ash Wednesday

Text and Context.

Magical and Seductive

"I am trying to introduce a narrative, something magical and seductive…." — Oslo artist Josefine Lyche, translated from the Norwegian by Google Perhaps something like Arcade Fire or Taylor Swift?…

Style News

Part I: Part II: Part III:   The Daily Princetonian  yesterday. Part IV:  A midrash for Princeton —

Fire and Ice

Or: Debriefing Josefine From the CV of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche: Selected Collections/ Public Commissions: 2016 Jarfjord Grensevaktstasjon, Jarfjord/Kirkenes, NO (upcoming)  From an Amazon.com customer review of a book…