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Ancient icosahedron
Via Tumblr, check out this ancient Greek die with 20 sides in the shape of an icosahedron:
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Our favorite research poster
We have been celebrating Research Week at our home institution, the University of Central Florida (UCF). Our Research Week culminated today with the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, featuring over 300 student poster presentations, representing over 50 majors. One of … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Culture, Ethics, History, Philosophy
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Lego art (Dome of the Rock edition)
From Wikipedia (footnotes omitted): “The Dome of the Rock — Arabic: قبة الصخرة (transliteration: Qubbat Al-Sakhrah), Hebrew: כיפת הסלע (transliteration: Kipat Hasela) — is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem … [It] is now one of … Continue reading
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Vertical history
Tim Urban invites us to think about history in vertical terms in this thoughtful blog post. (By the way, we discovered his post via jason kottke, one of our favorite bloggers of all time.) Mr Urban presents a beautiful botanical … Continue reading
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What is art? (Ptolemaic edition)
We recently visited the Tampa Museum of Art with our eldest (Adela) and youngest (Adys) daughters. This Ptolemaic piece was our favorite work of art from the museum’s modest collection, but what makes any given object a “work of … Continue reading
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Happy Three Kings Day
Fray Nicolás Borrás, The Adoration of the Magi
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Questions regarding the 13th Amendment
Happy Anniversary! On this day 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of U.S. States, including most (but not all) of the southern States that had left the Union and joined the rebel and pro-slavery … Continue reading
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“Windows 1.0”
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the launching of Windows 1.0, Tom Warren–a self-described “resident Microsoft expert”–has compiled a complete “visual history” of Microsoft’s popular operating system for personal computers. (Check out Warren’s work here, via The Verge.) This … Continue reading
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prior probability 