Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

This remarkable work of glass art by Trish Duggan (part of which is pictured below) is on display at the Imagine Museum in St Petersburg, Florida.

Either way, you may order this beautiful piece of floral wall art here (h/t: @pickover).

On this day (March 19) in 1931, the Governor of Nevada (Fred Balzar) signed two historic bills into law. One was a new “quickie divorce” law (see here, for example), making the Silver State the easiest place to get a … Continue reading →

The map below purports to show the number of troops under direct NATO command in Central Europe — “only” 40,000! — and how these forces are distributed among the eight Central European member-nations of the NATO alliance (hat tip: u/kg177). … Continue reading →

You may have heard of “Murphy’s Law” before (see item #1 below), but did you know that there are at least four five different formulations of this famous law? Via Roger’s Bacon, here are the first four: 1. Murphy’s Law … Continue reading →

The data visualization below, which is especially timely given Putin’s recent threats (bluffs?) to use nuclear weapons, is part of a larger series of “bar chart races” that Frank Jacobs (Big Think) has compiled for us. Check out the entire … Continue reading →

I have been meaning to blog about this perverse situation for years now and never got around to it, until today. According to this 2017 report by Caroline Simon in Forbes: “The ratio between administrators and faculty continues to shrink: … Continue reading →

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