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Map of Manhattan Island
New York City, the city that never sleeps, is one of the greatest cities in the world, especially the Island of Manhattan, but what is your favorite neighborhood in the City? (According to the map below, there are over 40 separate neighborhoods … Continue reading
Sunday puzzle
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find the shortest possible route connecting the three corners or vertices of an equilateral triangle, as shown in the illustration below: Hint: in searching for the shortest possible route connecting … Continue reading
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No Internet Week
That is the title of this provocative film project. So, my fellow web friends, could you survive a week with no internet? (Or, while we’re at it, with no cable TV?) Consider the upside: The first thing that struck me after a day … Continue reading
Self-explanatory?
This is a “GDP map” of the US in which each State is renamed for a country with a similar level of economic output or GDP (Gross Domestic Product). Although GDP is an imperfect and crude measure of economic prosperity, this … Continue reading
Gran Colombia
The great liberator Simon Bolivar once proposed the creation of the Republic of “Gran Colombia” (see map below), a south-of-the-border constitutional democracy or United States of South America consisting of the modern-day countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador (the same … Continue reading
Happy Three Kings Day
By the way, why is Three Kings Day, or Epiphany, not really celebrated in the Anglo-American world?
Should Afghanistan become the 51st State?
The United States launched “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan in October 2001, and although US forces quickly removed the stubborn leaders of the Taliban from power and shut down the training camps of the Al Qaeda terrorist network, we have … Continue reading
Who reads academic papers?
It turns out that no one does, not even academics! According to this devious but brilliant little paper published in the journal Complex Systems by Mikhail Simkin and Vwani Roychowdhury, researchers at UCLA who found an ingenious way [*] of estimating what fraction of academics … Continue reading
The future of law and legislation?
A legislator in California, Mike Gatto (pictured below), recently set up the world’s first Wiki-bill in order to enable private citizens to act as cyber-legislators and help draft an actual law. According to Assemblyman Gatto: Government has a responsibility to listen to the … Continue reading
