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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Radio Days

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:29 am

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.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Magic in the Moonshine

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

“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.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Death in Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:29 am

(Continued from May 14, 2014.)

See also consciousness growth and the previous post.

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Useful Princeton

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:30 am

See…

"Numbers themselves are fictions, abstractions humans invented
to gain more control over the world." — Keith Devlin

Related material:

Friday, July 11, 2014

Thanks for having me on.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

See also this  journal on April 12, 2014.

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