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Carl Sagan

“…the most natural thing in the world, if you find a science that you’re to some degree expert in, is speaking out about a danger to the global civilization of the human species. If you won’t, who’s going to speak out?” —Carl Sagan, Psychology Today, January 1996

“Tell that joke again, J!” “Yeah, yeah! The one about the friars!” “Alright, alright, so a group of friars lived in a monastery. As with many monasteries, the friars found it necessary to run a small business to support themselves. They ran a floral shop. One day one of the friars brought in an exquisite find: a Venus fly trap.Continue reading

Stacy’s Picks – Conway’s Game of Life

Conway’s Game of Life “…one of the most fascinating aspects of The Game of Life is how it produces repeating patterns and patterns that move across the plane (referred to as gliders and spaceships). But with modern-day computers, we can process these steps effortlessly and see them before us near-instantaneously! As if that wasn’t mind-blowing enough, how about wrapping yourContinue readingStacy’s Picks – Conway’s Game of Life

Nikki Graziano Found Functions

“Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics… and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music… Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.” – Paul Lockhart

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