Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Ayn Rand and Star Trek

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Ayn Rand was a fan of Star Trek. As surprising as that may be, it is understandable. First, she knew about the show becau...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

MAKE YOUR BED

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The large achievements of a lifetime depend on many small daily accomplishments. That is the first lesson in this collection of insightful ...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

ARMADILLOCON 39

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On August 4-5-6, 2017, the 39 th annual Armadillocon science fiction convention brought possible futures and alternate pasts to Austin. A ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

The Antikythera Device

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The wonderfully complex mechanism that predicted eclipses, the positions of the planets, and the dates of Olympic games may have been a col...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Irene Louise Babos Marotta Joseph

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Today would have been her 86 th birthday. My mother left me with two enduring learning points. Good music is cheap and cheap music is ...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Do You Know Your Military?

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The unremediated challenge is that only 1% of the population is in the military; only 2% ever has been. During World War II, that number wa...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

200,000 Pageviews

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On or about July 17, 2017, this blog tallied its 200,000 th page view. Launched on 2 January 2011, about 100 people per day read the posts...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Jerry Emanuelson’s Algebraic Proof of Ricardo’s Law of Association

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Most likely in the summer of 1970, Jerry Emanuelson published a proof showing that if two people work at two tasks at relatively different ...