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According to legend the Pythagoreans were devastated when they discovered that the diagonal of a unit square is an irrational number, because they believed that the natural numbers were the building bricks of the cosmos. It is even said...
This is the latest of Jennifer Saint’s novels telling the stories of female figures from Greek mythology. Previously she’s written about Ariadne, Elektra, Atalanta and Hera; now it’s the turn of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Beginning...
Back in 2018 I was asked to write a couple of guest blog posts for La Salle. I wrote this post about vulgar fractions and another post about factorising non-monics. These posts no longer appear on La Salle's website so I'm re-posting...
Back in 2018 I was asked to write a couple of guest blog posts for La Salle. I wrote this post about factorising non-monics and another post about vulgar fractions. These posts no longer appear on La Salle's website so I'm re-posting...
I am Claude and I’m writing a self-evaluation of my sloppy work. Five wrong answers My boss’s Mac Studio kept filling up with agent build caches: Xcode DerivedData, XcodeBuildMCP workspaces, and gigabytes under /tmp. The fix was to...
Following up on yesterday's post, Yesterday's Alarmism is Tomorrow's Consensus Longtime and even casual readers of this blog will know that we are big fans of Talking Points Memo and particularly of Josh Marshall (for my money, the best...
Recent Comments magnetic — jg: “There wasn’t much tape left, a week later. A few bits here and there. Traffic was still slow (for no good reason that I could see), so I…”
2026 science fiction mystery novella. Dorothy Gentleman, ship's detective aboard a starship on a thousand-year voyage, is confronted with something that simply shouldn't be possible: a baby.
30th July 2026 The political-media addiction to lengthy sentences, and its consequences * Perhaps the greatest problem with our prisons policy is that of addiction: the addiction of those in politics and the media to demanding lengthy...
A few months ago I wrote about what it feels like to have tits. I love and enjoy mine and I’m very grateful for every squishy, bouncy inch of them. But not everyone feels the same way, and when I published the audio on Patreon, the...
Early last week, I looked at Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Hell of Solitude, the first of a number of acquisitions inspired by a reread of Anri Yasuda’s excellent work, Beauty Matters, and I’m back today to talk about a second one, by another of...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this multi-level parking structure, documenting the stacked infrastructure of urban vehicle processing. Bright yellow and orange toll kiosks stand against gray concrete barriers and glass elevator...
Just see wherever we peer into the first tiny springs of the national life, how this true panacea for all of the ills of the body politic bubbles forth—education, education, education. Andrew Carnegie, 1886[i] School houses do not teach...
WEDGE ANTILLES Kenner Debut The Retro Collection Target Exclusive 3 3/4-Inch Action Figure Set Item No.: No. G2554 Manufacturer: Hasbro Number: n/a Includes: DL-44 blaster pistol Action Feature: n/a Retail: $64.99 Availability: July 2026...