“The week I sat down to balance my Budget”
I sat down at my desk with a budget and plan; money came and money went and I wanted to better understand
I saw bill statements for gas and groceries, power and rent, WiFi and cable — which all made sense…
Episode #174: Tai-Danae Bradley on Algebra, Topology, Language, and Entropy
Link to Podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/11/22/174-tai-danae-bradley-on-algebra-topology-language-and-entropy/
Description: “Mathematics is often thought of as the pinnacle of crisp precision: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle isn’t “roughly” the sum of the squares of the other two sides, it’s exactly that. But we live in a world of messy imprecision, and…
Author: Clare Watson | Publication: sciencealert.com
Link to piece: https://www.sciencealert.com/shocking-ai-discovery-suggests-we-barely-know-what-s-inside-our-own-cells
Author: Michael Lewis
Bueller?…Bueller?…Bueller?
A tale as old as time
‘Gobble Gobble.”
The anticipation of the moment was building, the pressure mounted. The moment soon neared when Sean-Michael Michael would remove his wallet and take out his fake i.d., …
The Palm House at Kew Gardens is illuminated with a light show during a preview for the Christmas at Kew event in London, England, on November 16, 2021.
Wikipedia
Link to piece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarkovsky_effect
‘Last Kiss in Damascus’
Café Fila
If Tiba had any negative feelings about remaining behind in the city it was only because of how much worse things had become. She had lived in Damascus throughout the entire seventeen years of her life, and during which time she had witnessed many of the ups and downs that…
