Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I found the video below in a vintage 2017 blog post that was originally titled “Turning birds into bullet trains“, but isn’t it the other way around?

Pictured below are the first 13,689 digits of Pi arranged in an Archimedean spiral. Each digit is encoded by a small circle, and the color scheme is the 10-color red-yellow-blue Brewer palette. More details about this amazing graphic are available … Continue reading →

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-pop Also, check out the catchy ballad *Midnight City* by the J-pop band Number_i below:

I am reblogging below an announcement from the International Adam Smith Society (IASS): We are excited to release the final program for our 2024 conference [this] week at Weseda University, Tokyo. The program may be found here. We would … … Continue reading →

I am attending this year’s meeting of the International Adam Smith Society at Waseda University in Tokyo this week — here is a link to this year’s program; my talk on “Die Adam Smith Probleme” is scheduled for the afternoon of … Continue reading →

Below is a partial list — in alphabetical order, by author — of some the works I will be reading on my long flight to Haneda-Tokyo (note: all the works listed here are open access except for item #3):

This fun question popped up in my WordPress dashboard the other day. My reply is below the fold:

Via my favorite expat blog “View from the Back“: We’ve covered the oldest chocolate shop in Paris, now what about its oldest hotel? France, and more particularly Paris, is the flagship destination … The Oldest Hotel in Paris: Hôtel Chopin