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Sunday December 11, 2005

Intelligence/ Counterintelligence continued: Intelligence: A file on James Jesus Angleton at namebase.org, a site run by Daniel Brandt.   Intelligence illustrated: JFK (l.) and Stanislaw Ulam (r.) Counterintelligence:…

Sunday September 7, 2003

Horse Sense Mathematicians are familiar with the emblem of Springer Verlag, the principal publisher of higher mathematics. Ferdinand Springer, son of Julius Springer, founder of Springer Verlag, "was a…

Monday April 28, 2003

ART WARS: Toward Eternity April is Poetry Month, according to the Academy of American Poets.  It is also Mathematics Awareness Month, funded by the National Security Agency; this…

Friday April 4, 2003

Mathematics Awareness Month April is the cruelest month…. Do you know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember "Nothing"? — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922 From Michael…

Friday April 4, 2003

The Eight Today, the fourth day of the fourth month, plays an important part in Katherine Neville's The Eight.  Let us honor this work, perhaps the greatest bad novel of…