Tag: weird
The Lost World
I. Opening the Airlock While I was in Arizona last week (running a study group for this year's Arizona Winter School on perfectoid spaces), I took the opportunity to visit another world, 50 minutes outside of Tucson. Dreamt up by a group…
Mumford at the Met
I was at the Met yesterday, where by chance I ran across the Concinnitas Project . (Pictures below the fold.)
-Lemmas
A dilemma is a difficult choice between two alternatives. I recently learned that there is a word for a choice between three alternatives: trilemma. But what if I have a hard choice between four options? I was curious, so I did some goog…
Man After Man
One of my favorite books growing up was Dougal Dixon 's Man after man: an anthropology of the future , which imagines the development and speciation of humanity in the far future -- under the influence of both genetic engineering and apo…
Integral House
I'm teaching Calculus III at Columbia this semester, and am kind of amazed at the exploitative prices charged for Stewart's Calculus, 8th Edition, "Early Transcendentals" . (Not that anyone knows what "Early Transcendentals" are). On the…