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Markov numbers are integer solutions to x² + y² + z² = 3xyz. The Wikipedia article on Markov numbers mentions that Don Zagier studied Markov numbers by looking the approximating equation x² + y² + z² = 3xyz + 4/9 which is equivalent to...
Here’s a teaser. I bought a box of records recently. A single box of records. Nineteen records in all. Here is a picture of the [...] The post Another Adventure in Jazz Collecting first appeared on jazzcollector.com.
May 19, 2026
It would be the same to me if you and I walked down the street and went a different way. In fact, it would be all the same to me if you and I walked away and came back to the same places we used to meet and feel like total strangers.Yes....
For 25 years, Springfield Armory and Croatia’s HS Produkt have partnered on polymer-framed, striker-fired handguns, starting with the XD series, followed by the popular Hellcat, and, since 2023, the modular Echelon. We’ve reviewed the...
Check out this amazing crew shot of USS Arkansas (Battleship No. 33) assembled on deck, circa April-Sept 1914. Note the sweeping collection of mascots (monkey, dogs, cats, a goat, and birds), as well as the ship’s baseball championship...
I always love to see the old M-14 clocking in with the fleet. Sure, it is just shooting lines here, but work is work, baby. The steel-and-wood M-14 was officially replaced in service by the M-16 platform in 1967, but is still kicking by...
What’s the single most important publication in the history of science? I mean, there’s no such thing, obviously; but if we made a short list anyway it would have to start with Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematic and Charles Darwin’s...
Dramatic clouds photographed through a car windshield on a road trip.
Read the full post at - 6+ Favorite Books on Farming and Agriculture (So Far!) A Roundup of My Favorite Books on Farming and Agriculture...so far.
Is irony. While I was eating my breakfast, I tried to catch up on the blogs I follow. I didn't get far, because one of the first ones was this one from Charlie Stross. It was another one of those record-scratch moments when you just...
Capcom took Resident Evil's survival horror atmosphere and forcibly shoved it into an arcade on-rails shooter. I went in blind with a Wiimote shoved into a revolver attachment... and somehow it works.
In the Netflix documentary “Court of Gold,” Steve Kerr — who won three championships as a player with the Chicago Bulls and four more as coach of the Golden State Warriors — shares a fascinating reflection on what winning cultures have...
While I have been out hiking in the Flinders ranges, I have created a poem of my experience. It was four days ago ten boys put on a show they packed their bags and left home by dawn. They made no drag as they passed the storm. The boys...