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Woke Up, Got Out of Bed, Dragged a Comb Across my Head

Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.

One of the most amusing things about writing a blog is that people you've never met form an impression about you from your blabberings, and then, often, when they actually meet you they are astounded that you aren't "an old...

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Transatlantic Communication of a Different Kind

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The telectroscope:Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope...

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Morpho Towers

Category: Art

Happy Leap Friday! For your enjoyment, some ferromagnetic fluids jiving to a piano piece:...

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No Dice?

Category: Mathematics Basterdizations

From a New York Times article describing the Nature Theater of Oklahoma's production of "No Dice:" "Poetics," for example, was choreographed using dice. Each face on the die represented one of six possible gestures, and each appendage -- two arms,...

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