19/2/2025 11:29 1 + 2 + 3 + … = −1/12: I’m really tired of seeing the nonsense claim that appears in the title of this article, which is a clear and concise explanation for why it is nonsense.
17/02/2025 22:19 Web Applications with Julia: My article appeared in the February edition of “ADMIN magazine”. You can buy the issue or single articles at the link, or pick up the magazine at many bookstores.
10/2/2025 16:26 Jean Shepherd archives on YouTube: I think I discovered Jean Shepherd’s radio show in 7
th grade. I was immediately hooked. The legendary storyteller’s late-night sessions were responsible for many sleepy schooldays. Today I learned that many of Shepherd’s broadcasts are preserved on YouTube (just search) and on
archive.org. I also learned today that Shepherd more or less
inspired Jerry Seinfeld to become a comedian.
6/2/2025 10:46 The Return Of Doomscrolling: Rui Carmo: “the West’s former beacon of economic might is being run like a Mexican soap opera”.
24/12/2024 11:06 This Week’s Hype, etc.: Peter Woit muses on how string theory hype harms the credibility of science in general.
13/12/2024 15:15 Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips: I referenced the excellent
Einstein’s War by Matthew Stanley several times in
my book, so was pleased to see this appreciative review by Stanley of
Einstein’s Tutor. It appeared in this week’s Times Literary Supplement.
7/12/2024 8:05 Martianus Capella: Precursors to Copernicus. Well told, with fine illustrations.
6/12/2024 9:50 My interview on TalkRadio about “Einstein’s Tutor”: On December 5
th, 2024, I talked with Paul Ross for a quarter hour about my
book on “TalkRadio”, a UK radio station. The host was charming and gracious and had clearly read the book. Unfortunately they keep the audio archives up for only about a week.
3/12/2024 10:08 Beastly beginnings: Erik Kwakkel, in his website medievalbooks, offers up some fine prose on the animal origins of old books.
29/11/2024 20:13 Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too): Detailed discussion of labor abuses made more common, and somehow more acceptable, when perpetrated with the assistance of “apps” (Uber, etc.). A slight omission is the prevalence of such practices as pretending that employees were “independent contactors” long before the existence of cellphones. I was a such a fictional contractor when I worked for a summer as a bicycle messenger in New York City. We satisfied the legal definition of employees, but somehow the messenger companies got away with classifying us as contractors, which meant no benefits whatsoever.
