March 14, 2010
Today — 3/14 — I’m celebrating pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, the irrational, transcendental, infinite mystery number: 3.1415926535897932384626434…. (If this isn’t enough detail for you, the first 10,000 digits of pi are listed on The Joy of Pi website.) Today also happens to be Albert Einstein’s 131st birthday; […]
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March 8, 2010
Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?,” in the Atlantic discusses the effect “reading” snippets of information on the Internet has on our brains. In the spirit of snippets, here are some quotations from the article: Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with […]
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