O is for Odetta
The New Yorker,
issue dated Nov. 17, 2008
The New Yorker,
issue dated Nov. 17, 2008
Month: December 2008
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Annals of Journalism:
SmileyA Penny for My Thoughts?
by Maureen Dowd"If an online newspaper in Pasadena, Calif., can outsource coverage to India, I wonder how long can it be before some guy in Bangalore is writing my column...."
-- New York Times teaser for a column of Sunday, November 30, 2008 (St. Andrew's Day)
DH News Service, Bangalore, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008: "Monday evening had a pleasant surprise in store for sky-watchers as the night sky sported a smiley, in the form of a crescent moon flanked by two bright planets Jupiter and Venus..."
Meanwhile, at National Geographic:
Jupiter, Venus, Moon Make "Frown"
A Midrash for Maureen:
Related material on Pasadena:
Happy birthday, R. P. Dilworth.Related material on India:
The Shining of May 29 (2002) and
A Well-Known Theorem (2005)."Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present...."-- Barry Mazur in 2000 as quoted today at the University of St. Andrews
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On Conceptual Art:
A Version of
Heaven's Gatein memory of
G. H. Hardy,
who died on
this date in 1947C. P. Snow on Hardy:"He was living in some of the best intellectual company in the world-- G.E. Moore, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Trevelyan, the high Trinity society which was shortly to find its artistic complement in Bloomsbury."
For a rather different artistic complement, see the previous entry.
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ART WARS continued:
From Braque's birthday, 2006:
"The senses deform, the mind forms. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives."-- Georges Braque,
Reflections on Painting, 1917Those who wish to follow Braque's advice may try the following exercise from a book first published in 1937:
Hint: See the following
construction of a tesseract:
From a page by Bryan ClairFor a different view
of the square and cube
see yesterday's entry
Abstraction and Faith.
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