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"She made me laugh a lot. She had a wicked sense of humour and could be devastatingly funny." — Film director Edgar Wright on the late Billie Whitelaw…
"How often in the course of a lifetime is the third eye, our organ for detecting the hidden luster of the front door key, capable of opening? Up to…
Related material: This morning's NY Times obituaries— Scully reportedly died on Dec. 16, 2014. See that date in this journal —
A Christmas Ornament for Amy Adams —
A date in the previous post suggests a flashback to March 11, 2014, and a post on that date titled "Dark Fields of the Republic"— This uncredited translation of Plato is, Google Books…
The President of the United States on the Sony hacking in his Dec. 19 press conference: "But let’s talk of the specifics of what we now know. The FBI announced…
This post was suggested by the book Turing's Cathedral and by comments 29 and 31 on Scott Aaronson's Dec. 16 post about "The Imitation Game." See Church-Turing thesis at Wikipedia and…
Wikipedia on a tale about one Hippasus of Metapontum, who supposedly was drowned by Pythagoreans for his discovery of irrational numbers and/or of the dodecahedron — "In the hands…
(Five by Five continued) As the 3×3 grid underlies the order-3 finite projective plane, whose 13 points may be modeled by the 13 symmetry axes of the cube, so the 5×5…
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