pickThis is an extensive compilation of the history of mirrors with humanity, spanning centuries and millennia. It is A LOT of information. Very interesting! Love them or hate them, mirrors have quite the history—and it‘s still growing.
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pickThis is an extensive compilation of the history of mirrors with humanity, spanning centuries and millennia. It is A LOT of information. Very interesting! Love them or hate them, mirrors have quite the history—and it‘s still growing.
Went with my son to his favorite gluten free bakery and had some great coffee and read a little.
Good Monday morning. Game 7 of the 1960s World Series. Pirates v Yankees. And reading during the commercials. Last week was a rough one here, so I‘m hoping starting things right will help things along. 😊
#baseball
#reading
#bestnerdstuff
Does the book count as scary if you read it at your 16yo‘s doctor appointment where their BP was high and the doctor says, “has anyone ever mentioned a heart murmur before?” after listening to his chest?
I think I impressed the staff with how calm I was. They have no idea that this is not my first rodeo and, in comparison to other Dx my other kids have had, it‘s pretty innocuous. 😆 Tests are OK so far, though. Still, I think it should count. 😜
That feeling when the book you're reading references the next in your stack ...
I don't remember hearing that d'Alembert's birth mother was Mme de Tencin, but if I did it didn't stick with me because who the heck is Claudette de Tencin? I only encountered her earlier this year through her proto-gothic Memoirs of the Count of Comminges -- and my next read, her historical novel “The Siege of Calais.“
In Aczel's story she does not seem pleasant
so-so(2011) It's a popular history of Western mathematics light on mathematical detail and heavy on biographical anecdotes. Some favorite stories are included: the Cardano-Tartaglia and Newton-Leibniz feuds, Galois's stupid and romantic death at 20, the Bourbaki pranksters and Grothendieck's reclusiveness. But for me the stories were familiar and Aczel's retelling didn't add much. I'd have liked more math, but that's not the kind of book this is.
pickFinished paper 1 at 2 am
& now I sit here yet again
to write another line and verse;
I hope this essay isn‘t worse
than this poem.
I‘m halfway through comps exams & enjoying the heck out of the process even if I am tired. Today I get to write about microscopic worlds, affective ecocriticism, & The Secret Garden.
Highly recommend the tagged book even if you are not writing for scholarship. It‘s so cool! This illustration is one of my favorites🧚
Don‘t listen to them —
knowledge is power — may your
thirst never be quenched. 🦉
Knowledge is definitely power. Important to keep this in mind when trying new endeavors and somebody wants to rain on your parade. Example: me learning French. I‘ve been learning for 6 years now & I‘ve had a couple of people ask “why”, like it‘s some huge waste of time. I say, why not?
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