Saturday, April 29, 2017

Building a Team in Fact and Fiction

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The Devil’s Brigade and The Dirty Dozen are two stories from World War II about creating a cohesive combat unit from differing, antagonis...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Newton and Leibniz

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No one got the joke. The office  has a lot of nerds. Our boss earned his master's in anthropology.  My wife said, "The human brain ...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Grigory Perelman's "Perfect Rigor" by Masha Gessen

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Technical errors in common mathematics and common English from a writer who claims an early love for mathematics, and who is professionally...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

Mapping it Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographics

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This is a quirky book that challenges the reader to accept unusual presentations of unusual information. Among the artists are Bruce Sterli...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Elisha S. Loomis and the Pythagorean Proposition

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The fact that over 300 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are known and an infinite number are possible is in and of the nature of the unive...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Consume ... Consumer ... Consumed.

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Capitalism is built on selfishness, but not every whim that pops into your head is in your self-interest. If you do not examine your philoso...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Book Review: Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny"

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This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking set of aphorisms and reflections.  As much as I enjoyed it – and believe that I benefited from read...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Of Watches and Beaches and Atheists

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I patronize the local atheist boutique to buy bumper stickers, pens, pencils, lapel pins, and badges. This one sat on my desk for a couple ...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Counter-Insurgency is a Wrong Turn

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While I accept the thesis, I question its underlying assumptions. I take the wider view that war is crime, and therefore crime is war; and ...