The Clinton Tapes
I’m not sure whether I’m ready to tackle Taylor Branch’s 700 page account of the conversations he recorded with Bill Clinton during his presidency, but David Runciman’s review in the London Review of Books...
Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family
I’m not sure whether I’m ready to tackle Taylor Branch’s 700 page account of the conversations he recorded with Bill Clinton during his presidency, but David Runciman’s review in the London Review of Books...
The New York Times annual Year in Ideas section is out today. That’s always worth checking out. As their intro says: … we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of...
Robert Sapolsky is always fun to listen to. He gave the class day lecture at Stanford last spring. It’s a neat talk about what makes us humans the uniquerest (his word, not mine) animal....
Here’s an applet I wrote that draws clocks in 5 different numeral systems. From the top row down, they are: Binary Skew Binary Ternary Balanced Ternary Decimal The first column is the hours, the...
The Congressional Budget Office released their estimates of what individuals would pay for health insurance under the Senate Bill. I’m sure you’ve seen this reported in the news. It usually has a headline like...
The Royal Society turns 350 next year. They’ve set up a cool website as part of their celebration. It contains a timeline which lets you scroll through and see some of the more important...
Remember my earlier post about balanced ternary? Well, another odd numbering system has been in the news recently. Randall Munroe just published a collection of XKCD comics. The page numbers start out like this:...