Midrash
The adding machine, a reference to William S. Burroughs,
links to a web page based on a 1938 passage by John O’Hara.
Midrash
The adding machine, a reference to William S. Burroughs,
links to a web page based on a 1938 passage by John O’Hara.
“This article is a nexus of ideas and vision….”
— Jack Plotkin at Medium.com yesterday
As are many other things. See nexus in this journal
and . . .
“Show me all the blueprints.”
— Howard Hughes, according to Hollywood
From Google today, some excerpts from the result of the search “define:nexus”–
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This search was suggested by a book review in today’s New York Times that mentions both the Harvard classic The Varieties of Religious Experience and some religious experiences affecting my own Harvard class– that of 1964.
Cuernavaca, Mexico, in August 1960 was the site of what Harvard’s Timothy Leary later called the deepest religious experience of his life. For some other experiences related to Harvard and Cuernavaca, see a search on those two terms in this journal. The book under review is titled “The Harvard Psychedelic Club.” My own experiences with the Harvard-Cuernavaca nexus might more appropriately be titled “The Harvard Alcoholic Club.” |
From the Feb. 7 post "The Graduate School of Design" —
Related material —
Illustrations — From The previous post . . .
From Google —
"When you come to a nexus in the time flow…."
See as well the recent post Tab Icons from the Clearing —
"Remember, Genesis IS Skynet."
Above: New York Times Book Review of Sunday, November 22, 2015.
Perhaps Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex , was
"exposed to a nexus point in the time flow while she was in
a quantum field" ?
August 30, 11:01 AM Comment-Worthy
August 30, 12:00 PM Hymn
August 31, 8:23 PM What Where
September 1, 5:48 AM The Crossword Omen —
Related material: A critic's remarks on the missing character "Bum"
in Beckett's play "What Where" and Rimbaud on the vowel "U"—
From a mathematical review:
"The book ends with eye-opening explorations….
If pressed for an extra rubric, I would consider
a separate section on "Engaging Games," as
this is something that mathematicians are
preoccupied with— literally and metaphorically."
See in this journal Language Game, Nexus, and
posts of May 12, 2013.
Western Washington University in Bellingham maintains a
website to benefit secondary-school math: MathNEXUS.
The MathNEXUS "website of the week" on April 14, 2013,
was the Diamond 16 Puzzle and its related webpages.
Click on the above image for the April 14 webpage.
(Where Entertainment is God, continued)
Related material— The Nexus (Jan. 8, 2010).
That post contains the following—
"A Nexus is a place equidistant from the five elements as explained in the TV series Charmed . Using this as a point of reference, it is quite possible that there could be several Nexus points of power scattered throughout the world, though rare."
— Nexus (Charmed) in Wikipedia
Happy birthday, Alyssa Milano.
Robert Redford in "Spy Game."
This 2001 film premiered
on AMC TV last night.
Motto of the British
information technology (IT)
journal The Register —
"Biting the hand that feeds IT."
Related material:
For those who prefer
the Harvard Psychedelic Club to
the Harvard Alcoholic Club
(see The Nexus) —
Nicolas Cage leaving the
church of The Rock —
Related material:
“William T. Golden, an investment banker, a philanthropist and a main architect of American science policy in the 20th century who had the idea for a presidential science adviser, died on Sunday [Oct. 7, 2007] in Manhattan. He was 97….
His death, at Mount Sinai Hospital, was announced by the American Museum of Natural History, where he was chairman for five years and most recently chairman emeritus. Mr. Golden had helped found the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
For more than 50 years, Mr. Golden was at the nexus of science and society as a man who knew almost everybody in science and government.
His willingness to ‘buy the first tank of gas,’ as he put it, for worthy projects led him to serve as a trustee or officer or board member of nearly 100 organizations, universities and government agencies….
In 1989, when he bought from Harvard the Black Rock Forest in the Hudson Highlands, which was threatened by development, Mr. Golden explored its nearly 4,000 acres by horseback. He later turned over the forest to a consortium to preserve it.”
— Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007
See also the following art,
suggested by the Golden obituary’s
Mount Sinai, Black Rock, and
forest themes, as well as by
the “Deep Beauty” entry from
the date of Golden’s death:
Click for details.
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