Order from chaos. The Galton board.

Applied geometry. Nice account of how the Romans surveyed such straight roads. youtu.be/37tajoy_gW4

A thread of 23 Survival Tips And Tricks You Might Not Have Known Before. 1. How to break a door

Then you've got something like ukiyo-e, a form of Japanese print art (that influenced the Impressionists!) where landscapes were approached in a unique way. Hokusai and Hiroshige (both 19th century) are the most famous ukiyo-e artists, but Hasui Kawase was a 20th century master:

Dire-ish wolf. The problems with these "de-extinction" efforts, in which a few traits are changed in a living species to make it resemble an extinct one (dire wolf, woolly mammoth, etc.) They are misguided, and journalists don't emphasize the problems. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/04/08/dir…

The mathematician John Conway didn’t fit into a box. 🧵

Conway’s first love was geometry. In 1966, he discovered the symmetries of the Leech lattice, a 24-dimensional structure with lots of applications. Mathematicians later proved that it gave the densest possible way to pack spheres in 24-dimensional space — each sphere touches

11.IV Quote of the Day #QOTD John Conway (1937 - 2020) "You don't educate people by telling them useful things; you educate people by telling them interesting things"

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"The mystery as well as the glory of mathematics lies not so much in the fact that abstract theories turn out to be useful in solving problems but in the fact that – wonder of wonders [...]" – Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999) #quote #mathematics #math #maths

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25 years ago, the Clay Institute offered $1 million for solutions to 7 of the hardest problems in math. Only one has fallen. Here are the ones that still remain unsolved:

These signatures are on a whole new level [📹 alrasyidlettering]

MIT's "Gödel, Escher, Bach" lectures youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 94? Happy Birthday Roger.

Newton's famous letter to Robert Hooke where he wrote his now famous sentence: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." 📝 Cambridge, February 5, 1675 Dr. Sir, At the reading of your letter I was exceedingly pleased and satisfied with your

The town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales is completely dedicated to books and has 26 bookshops but only 2000 residents. That’s one bookshop per 77 people. [📹 happyenchantedhome]

The best logical explanation of entropy. (It only took me 11 months to find an hour to read it). arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232