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Columbia University physics writer Peter Woit dubbed yesterday Snowpocalypse 2015 in New York City. Woit used the day to ponder a new book by mathematician Michael Harris, Mathematics without Apologies . Related…
Julianne Moore at the Screen Actors Guild awards on Sunday evening: "When I was 17, I decided I wanted to be an actor. It didn't seem possible because…
Continued from June 17, 2013 (John Baez as a savior for atheists): As an atheists-savior, I prefer Galois… The geometry underlying a figure that John Baez posted four…
From a search for "snowflake" in this journal — See also the January 13 death of a mathematician, graph theorist Ralph Faudree of the University of Memphis. Two hymns that may or…
Yesterday's online LA Times had an obituary for a traveling salesman: "Besides writing and teaching, Borg was a frequent speaker, usually racking up 100,000 frequent flier miles a year. He and…
See the works of Christine Brooke-Rose.
Wikipedia on a 1953 novel by Theodore Sturgeon: "The novel concerns the coming together of six extraordinary people with strange powers…." Review of the novel by Ted Gioia at Conceptual…
"We are not isolated free chosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform…
"In the garden of Adding, Live Even and Odd…." – The Midrash Jazz Quartet in the novel City of God by E. L. Doctorow (2000)…