As an added bonus you can play “Where’s Mrs W.”…
Editions Belin – Les déchiffreurs
More seriously a lovely series of photos together with text that gives a small idea of what it’s like working in the world of pure maths.
Monthly Archives: September 2010
We’ve learnt nothing…
We’ve just been through a crisis caused by people putting too much faith in markets.
I have no idea with Angelgate is true or it’s possible impact but this makes me laugh…
Fabrice Grinda: Musings of an Entrepreneur » Angelgate is overblown!
Another cry of put your faith in markets and it’s be fine. We’ve learnt nothing.
Complicated Voting Systems…
I watched an explication of the Labour election process in the UK last night. Seemed very straight forward; or at least I thought that I’d understood it first time.
However, the TV presenter referred to it as complicated. It seemed odd to me that she’d passed that judgement on something that they’d explained in 2 mins.
However, it seems that she was not alone in her judgement.
The Blitz…
The UK TV schedules are full of programs about the blitz. The stories are all about pilots and heros fighting over the channel.
However, I’ve never understood what this must have felt like on the ground until now…
Greece…
Is this what the end of the post-war European period will look like?
“No success of any kind is regarded without suspicion. Everyone is pretty sure everyone is cheating on his taxes, or bribing politicians, or taking bribes, or lying about the value of his real estate. And this total absence of faith in one another is self-reinforcing. The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any sort of civic life impossible; the collapse of civic life only encourages more lying, cheating, and stealing.”
Filling out forms…
“…members of a rescue team were prevented from getting to the scene of an imagined reactor accident for 15 minutes because they had to fill in forms about radiation risks.”
Exercise at nuclear submarine yard exposes serious safety failings | World news | The Guardian.
Film Cameras…
Is this for real?
Commercial touts benefits of film cameras over digital cameras – Boing Boing.
Everything Is a Remix…
Everything is a Remix, Part 1 : Everything Is a Remix
Is it a remix or is it just simply “sharing best practices”?
The Daily Mail…
“What has this country come to when a journalist presumes to make moral pronouncements…”
I’ve never met a Daily Mail journalist. Didn’t think that they lived in the same universe.