This three-dimensional recreation of one of artist M.C. Escher’s best-known drawings is best viewed full-screen so you can clearly see the water flow. (Click the little symbol at the lower right of the video.) Notice anything odd? (If not, you … Continue reading
The city of Houston, Texas, produced this video giving sensible advice on surviving a shooting incident. The example setting is a workplace, but the same advice is applicable anywhere. by … Continue reading
Strategic Allied Consulting has recently been fired by state Republican parties in response to reports of large numbers of questionable registration forms produced by the group. It turns out that the company was set up by one Nathan Sproul, who … Continue reading
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The remarkable Antikythera mechanism is a device more than 2000 years old apparently intended to compute the positions of the classical planets, predict eclipses, and perform related astronomical calculations. The website of Britain’s Guardian newspaper published an interesting article today … Continue reading
Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama and now at Citigroup, had an interesting piece in the August 23 Washington Post on Paul Ryan’s budget, which has been very popular with Republicans. Among … Continue reading
In July a New Yorker named Brett Cohen hoaxed a bunch of people in Times Square into believing that he was a celebrity simply by adopting the trappings of celebrity — body guards, Paparazzi, and hanger’s on. It was apparently … Continue reading
Assuming anybody besides me actually reads this blog at all, some significant fraction of you are probably pretty sick of politics at this point. I could say something pretentious about the importance of political involvement in a democracy, but the … Continue reading