May 2013
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The Wonder of Coincidence
This Friday, May 17, 2013, literally trillions of “things” will happen, as the seven billion person narrative of modern, human existence continues to unravel and evolve. Like every other day, the rotating engine of suffering, jubilee, and mediocrity will churn and scatter its lot among its willing, unwilling, and generally confused inhabitants.
But unlike most days, this day marks an...
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April 2013
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity →
Today is the birthday of Leonard Euler, a squinty-eyed Swiss genius. He was a prolific mathematician, a trendsetter in terms of notations and concepts, and a pioneer of the use of imaginary numbers, which turned out to be not-so-imaginary after the development of quantum physics.
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“For man is not born into a world made to fit him like a custom tailored suit of...”
– Brainpickings
March 2013
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My Latest For The Atlantic
Global trade is old — really, really old. But something new is happening to the world economy as software and container trade shrink the globe — the rate of “globalization” is increasing, allowing developing countries to hitch a ride on the capital of advanced economies and race forward.
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“Albert Einstein’s ex libris was created from a doodle he drew up (probably...”
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My Funny Valentine arranged and performed by yours...
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My response to Politico's profile of Concord 51
This morning Politico ran a story about Concord 51. That story generated quite a bit of attention for us, but it also raised a number of questions, particularly about what it is that we believe as an organization, and who we are trying to attract as members. We received dozens of comments and emails asking whether there is “room in your tent” for an “independent African American” or “a gay...
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February 2013
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2,499
Kalles Kultur currently has 2,499 followers, but I think we can crack the 2,500 mark with a bit of re-posting. Please feel free to prove me right.
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The Incredible Shrinking American Worker
My latest article for The Atlantic -
The mysterious and growing divide between the rich and the rest in just about every wealthy country on Earth, including the U.S., is really two mysteries wrapped in one. The first mystery is why real wage growth has sped up at the top and slowed down for everybody else. But the second, more recent, and more fascinating problem is why labor’s share of the...
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Computability and the Limits of Human Knowledge
In 1928, German mathematician David Hilbert asked a profound question about the nature of mathematical knowledge now known as the “Entscheidungsproblem”, or “decision problem”. Given the success of generalized problem solving methods developed by Blaise Pascal, Johann Gauss and others, Hilbert asked whether there is a general method, an algorithm, that can be used to determine whether any given...
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January 2013
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WatchLeveraging the power of technology to produce art.
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“What Mozart had, we now believe, was the same thing Tiger Woods had — the...”
– David Brooks, The New York Times
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“Everything alive will eventually die, we know that, but now we can read the...”
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“We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and...”
– http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/civil-rights/king-excerpt.html
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“Art is the science of a meaningful existence.”
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