https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/07/
it-altered-my-entire-worldview-leading-authors-pick-
eight-nonfiction-books-to-change-your-mind —

"… just one aspect of a historical process
that we can legitimately call 'progress' –
not a romantic or utopian or naive ideal,
but an empirical fact that we can see
in graphs and numbers."

… and sometimes elsewhere . . .

"Might be a nice 20 page essay, but a bomb of a book"
— Herbert Gintis on Taleb's Black Swan , review dated April 10, 2012.

This remark might also be applied to Crumey's Mobius Dick :

Related material for Jungians who enjoy synchronicity —

The Log24 posts from the date of the Gintis review — April 10, 2012.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016, was also the publication date
at Princeton University Press for a book by one Herbert Gintis:

Gintis reportedly died yesterday, Jan. 5, 2023.

"He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
and then attended Harvard University for post-graduate
work in mathematics. After receiving his master's degree,
he grew disillusioned with the field, and while at Harvard,
became a sandal maker with a shop in Harvard Square." 

In later years, Gintis was associated with the Santa Fe Institute.

A memorial by Richard Goldstein —

Vivienne Westwood

See also this  journal on December 11.

Two items from the same date in 2014 —

For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —

The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.

See also a Log24 post from Dec. 5, the lawyer's dies natalis.

A koan for the real  Lumberton . . .

"What was your original face before you were born?"

The "Cottage Industry" of the title is the "Modernism" racket
of today's 1 AM post — a subsidiary of Academia that
uses some of the same marketing techniques as Hollywood . . .

See also "Plato's Ghost" in this journal.

("Efficient Packing," continued)

The above date of a letter from Kurt Gödel — 7 January 1954 —
appears also in an instance of the word "artified" that seems* to be
outside the usual realms of English usage —

    * Related "artified" references — Try a Google Books search and . . .

    Morf Vandewalt might enjoy the bibliography from Dreon's article.

From this  journal on Dec. 2 —

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

Update of 2:30 PM ET:
"You can't make this stuff up."

Hallmark: "When you care enough . . ."

Followup for the American  nomenklatura —

… Suggested by, among other things,  a Saturday evening post.

See as well the concluding paragraphs of . . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/books/john-prados-dead.html .

"… in the marketplace of ideas, a good story
often outsells mere facts."

— Library of Congress webpage arguing against the popular
legend that "Ring Around the Rosie" is about the Black Plague

* The second tab above is from today's obituary of a woman whose
flower shop, “Ring Around a Rosy,” adjoined the Library Theatre
in Warren, Pennsylvania.

See also Turyn in this  journal.

A Log24 post from the above date —
October 24, 2022 — suggests 
a related cinematic image:

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

The above remarks from 2010 were suggested by
a weblog post by Peter Woit yesterday and by tonight's
Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral."

The title is a phrase from a 2010 Guardian  book review.
The book under review was by one Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
who reportedly died at 93 on Nov. 24 in Munich.

Also on Nov. 24 —

Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum.

See Whiteboard in this journal.

… Continues.

A literary note for Ho, from this journal on October 27, 2008 —

A day earlier — October 26, 2008 — was the date of a very
informative, but deeply tasteless, introduction to . . .

That introduction need not be quoted here.

"Nietzsche in Basel studied the deep pool
Of these discolorations, mastering

The moving and the moving of their forms
In the much-mottled motion of blank time."

— Wallace Stevens, "Description Without Place"

Also in Basel, a mathematics professor contemplated the Lo Shu —