Seems especially bad this year.
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From Terry Pratchett
I freaking love Terry Pratchett. pic.twitter.com/Exqim4dj3e
— Julianne Dalcanton (@dalcantonJD) August 25, 2015
The world reshaped
The end of the population pyramid
For all of history, humans have lived in societies dominated (in numbers at least) by children. By 2060 children will be barely more numerous than any other age group up to 65. And looking after parents and grandparents will be as big a, or a bigger, social requirement as bringing up children and grandchildren. The year 2015 is, roughly, the halfway point in this astounding transformation.
The War Is On Thanksgiving, Not Christmas
The Hipster Effect
The Mathematical Reason All Hipsters Look the Same
Citing The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same
When hipsters are too slow in detecting the trends, they will keep making the same choices and therefore remain correlated as time goes by, while their trend evolves in time as a periodic function.
Coming soon to Lake Shore Drive
Chicago wins George Lucas museum
One of the attractions of the Chicago site was the proximity to the “Museum Campus” of the Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium. Looks like an example of the Matthew effect.
From Slashdot.
A mathematician strikes back!
Math doesn’t ….. (NSFW language).
By way of Steven Strogatz
One of Robert A. Heinlein’s characters expressed a similar opinion, slightly more politely and much more concisely.
Sober Britons risk dangerous levels of clarity
The worst piece of design ever done
Pentecost
Pentecost, May 27, 2012
Lá na Cincíse, 27ú lá Mí na Bealtaine 2012
This past Sunday was Pentecost. At St. Mary’s, as I have seen elsewhere, a tradition is to read one one of the lessons in multiple languages. I volunteered to read in Irish. We read the Gospel, after our Deacon introduced it. The Irish translation is from An Bíobla Naofa.
Léigh tuilleadh
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 