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Word Of The Day: Palimpsest
How many times has this happened to you? You call in your scribe to jot down your thoughts on exorcisms for unclean spirits, and then…oh, guess what, we’re out of parchment. What to do? Why not recycle some of those … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, books, Events, History
Tagged Archimedes, combinatorics, geometry, History, math, palimpsest, Stomachion
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Happy Tau Day!
It may be INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY elsewhere on the Internet. Here, though, we’re celebrating Tau Day – because every number that helps us determine the circumference of things is due its fifteen minutes of fame. Mathematically speaking, tau (τ) … Continue reading
Pi in the Face
So, you’ll notice that the charming video we linked to on Monday in honor of Pi Day is “no longer available due to a copyright claim by Lars Erickson.” It turns out Lars Erickson wrote a song called the “Pi Symphony” … Continue reading
Happy Pi Day
Happy Pi Day! Celebrate by listening to this song based on the famous number, performed by musician Michael John Blake. Blake assigned numbers to keys on the major C scale, and created a song based on pi to 31 decimal … Continue reading
Kryptos Sculptor Drops Clue
Twenty years ago this month, artist Jim Sanborn unveiled his enigmatic sculpture, Kryptos, at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The sculpture (left) contains a four-part encrypted message, which he encoded with the help of now-retired CIA cryptographer Edward Scheidt. … Continue reading
How Music Works: Tuning Your Guitar to the Sound of a Rumble Strip
[The first in a series of posts by Dr. John Powell, author of How Music Works. Check back each Wednesday for more.] A few days ago I was driving along the freeway admiring the sunset, and my front wheel ran … Continue reading
Posted in Features, music
Tagged How Music Works, John Powell, Lone Ranger, math, music, Transportation
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Orders of Magnitude: 10/10/10
This Sunday is October 10, 2010 – or 10/10/10. In celebration of the day, the Eames Office – as in the late designers Ray and Charles Eames – is looking back to the couple’s iconic short film, Powers of Ten. … Continue reading
Math x Music = Caribou
Dan Snaith has a packed resume. He’s the musician behind the electro-pop band Caribou, which won the prestigious Polaris Music Prize in 2008. His new album, Swim, was released this year to rave reviews. Oh yeah, and he has a … Continue reading
The Inspired “Story of Math”
The excellent four-hour BBC documentary The Story of Math introduces viewers to the great mathematicians and their contributions by traveling to the places they lived and that inspired them. Host and Oxford Professor Marcus du Sautoy is most engaging as … Continue reading
