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The Warrenpoint Puzzle

From a review of Metaphor , by Denis Donoghue (Harvard University Press, 2014)— “Donoghue brings a lovely confessional element to his analysis. As a student, he says, he loved Latin,…

Or Not

Smart Art

Horwich reportedly died on July 21, 2014. For a different perspective on smart art, see the Log24 posts of April 2013.

Mystery Prize

Continued from the Facebook-related post of February 4, 2014: In related news at the website of the American Mathematical Society today: Multimillion-Dollar Minds “The Multimillion-Dollar Minds of 5 Mathematical…

The Diamond-Theorem Correlation

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Zero System

The title phrase (not to be confused with the film 'The Zero Theorem') means, according to the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, a null system , and "A null system is…

Photo Opportunities

“I need a photo opportunity….” — Paul Simon

Ready for My Closeup

New Art Now

See also Aqua  in this journal.

The Craft

See “Charles Williams” + Witchcraft  in this journal. Williams was one of the Inklings, a group of Christian writers that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R….