In memoriam :
“Margot Adler, an iconic NPR correspondent and Wiccan priestess,
died on Monday July 28 from endometrial cancer at the age of 68.”
— Huffington Post 07/28/2014 5:39 pm EDT
See also Log24 posts tagged NPR Magic.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Radio Days
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Magic in the Moonshine
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning
of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not
typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the
meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside,
enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a
haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes
are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine.”
— Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
“By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us.”
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118
“Spectral evidence is a form of evidence
based upon dreams and visions.” —Wikipedia
See also Moonshine (May 15, 2014) and, from the date of the above
New York Times item, two posts tagged Wunderkammer .
Related material: From the Spectrum program of the Mathematical
Association of America, some non-spectral evidence.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Death in Mathmagic Land
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Sunday, July 13, 2014
Useful Princeton
See…
- An Apple for Devlin (July 2)
- Thanks for having me on (July 11)
- Useful Idiot (Wikipedia article)
-
Useful Fictions (a Princeton mathematics
department Spring 2014 course)
"Numbers themselves are fictions, abstractions humans invented
to gain more control over the world." — Keith Devlin
Related material:
-
From today's New York Times Sunday Review ,
The World According to Maxwell Smart, Part 1
- Madonna, "Get Stupid," a political video from 2008
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Thanks for having me on.
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