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The Well Runs Dry

From the obituary of a two-time Oscar winner, Luise Rainer, who reportedly died today at 104 — Her oft-repeated account of her last meeting with [producer Louis B.] Mayer is…

An Education

AP Today in History  Thought for the Day: “I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.” — Wilson Mizner,       American playwright (1876-1933)* From this…

Revolution of Forms

In memory of Cuban architect Ricardo Porro, who died on Christmas Day, 2014: See also Rubik + Revolution and Launched from Cuber.

The Source

Bogus religion from a bogus "research lab" — Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004), pp. 547-570 "Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality" Robert G. Jahn…

Dodecahedron Model of PG(2,5)

Recent posts tagged Sagan Dodecahedron  mention an association between that Platonic solid and the 5×5 grid. That grid, when extended by the six points on a "line at infinity,"…

A Christmas Carol

See also Sagan Dodecahedron, which includes  an image posted at 12 AM ET December 25, 2014: The image stands for the phrase "five by five," meaning "loud and clear."

Tyson's Cosmos

Related material:  See also Cosmos + Sagan in this journal.

Cube of Ultron

The Blacklist “Pilot” Review "There is an element of camp to this series though. Spader is quite gleefully channeling Anthony Hopkins, complete with being a well educated, elegant…

Hopefully

The previous post, More To Be Done, quotes an opera lyric by physicist Lisa Randall : The opera, about a physics of hidden dimensions, may of course be given a theological spin —   See Hope…

More To Be Done

   The Ball-Weiner date above, 5 September 2011, suggests a review of this journal on that date — "Think of a DO NOT ENTER pictogram, a circle with a…