Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’
The five regular polyhedra. Plato argued in Timaeus that these were the shapes of the bodies making up the elements: earth consists of little cubes, while fire, air, and water are made of polyhedra with four, eight, and twenty identical…
Have you noticed how picturesque the letter Y is & how innumerable its meanings are? The tree is a Y, the junction of two roads forms a Y two converging rivers, a donkey’s head & that of an ox, the glass with its stem, the lily on its stalk & the beggar lifting his arms are a Y. This…
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
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☞ Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age
“Human knowledge is based on memory. But does the digital age force us to remember too much? Victor Mayer-Schönberger argues that we must delete and let go. (…) “Quite literally, Google knows more about us than we can…
Let’s look at the bright side: coming in second means that I won’t have to give a speech.
