I did a comparison of city street network orientations in major US cities, and now I've got a better sense of why I find Boston so difficult to navigate. Visualization uses Python, OSMnx, and @OpenStreetMap data.

For decades the leading nature writer has been collecting unusual words for landscapes and natural phenomena – from aquabob to zawn. It’s a lexicon we need to cherish in an age when a junior dictionary finds room for ‘broadband’ but has no place for ‘bluebell’

What is the XY problem?

These simple diagrams deliver just that – all Underground services illustrating the height of all stations and platforms, below and above ground.

"Spine researcher Dr Stuart McGill at the University of Waterloo in Canada has spent his career studying back pain and its rehabilitation. He recommends a “big three” set of exercises. This consists of the curl-up, the bird dog (or quadruped) and the side bridge, all of which are low-intensity and suitable for almost everyone." ~ Guardian https://is.gd/b1sUBs

Oh Great Cloud,

T. S. Kuhn, author of the immensely influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a book assigned to countless students of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science, is exposed as a corrupter of the youth, the father of relativist and postmodernist heresies, an unoriginal borrower from more insightful thinkers, an arrogant dogmatist, implacably intolerant, ill-tempered, confused, contradictory, vapid, and obsessive. In Morris’s telling, the man who denied reality could not face up to what he had done.

Obviously it is advantageous to draft more complete notes that precisely capture the course content and allow for a verbatim review of the material at a later date. Only it isn’t. New research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer demonstrates that students who write out their notes on paper actually learn more. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/6/132/files/2010/11/Psychological-Science-2014-Mueller-0956797614524581-1u0h0yu.pdf

A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy. It concerns the aesthetics of mathematics with some personal content, and gives the layman an insight into the mind of a working mathematician.

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I got Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules For Life for the same reason as the other 210,000 people: to make fun of the lobster thing. Or if not the lobster thing, then the neo-Marxism thing, or the transgender thing, or the thing where the neo-Marxist transgender lobsters want to steal your precious bodily fluids.

The Hacker's Diet: How to Lose Weight and Hair through Stress and Poor Nutrition | +++

And so instead, all of our meetings are structured around a 6 page narrative memo.

Digitization and its discontents.

mere 19 months after dethroning the world’s top human Go player, the computer program AlphaGo has smashed an even more momentous barrier: It can now achieve unprecedented levels of mastery purely by teaching itself.

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Null Island is an imaginary island located at 0°N 0°E (hence “Null”) in the South Atlantic Ocean. This point is where the Equator meets the Prime Meridian. | +

It would be difficult for anyone looking around the world today to resist the conclusion that something has gone very badly indeed with what we continue to call “Western Civilization.” This awareness tends to be distorted and muffled – if not obliterated – by the media, which manage to induce us to take for granted the continuingly explosive situations that confront us on every hand, and to see as an enlargement of our freedom and an enhancement of the quality of our living the steady and ominous erosion of the moral standards on which our traditional way of life has been based. | consumer consuermism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOSo_EN-y4 // https://sugru.com/faq // Fix Mossman?!

Shifts in the U.S. LGBT Population | difficulties in demographics | gender

An excellent book which explores the close relationship between Southwell and Shakespeare. There are more verbal parallels, echoes and borrowings from Southwell by Shakespeare than from any other author, not excluding Holinshed and North (Plutarch). On the basis of John Klause's discoveries much of Shakespearean biography will have to be rewritten. I highly recommend this book to all those interested in Shakespeare's inner life. The book is currently out of print but is available on line here on the Sonnets web site

Brexit EU

Mark Leuchter; guitars; effects; pedals

don't care what people think

The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri | + Purgatory: https://archive.org/details/divinecomedyofda02dant_1 | + Paradise: https://archive.org/details/divinecomedyofda03dant_0 | + 3-in-1: https://archive.org/details/divinecomedyctra00dantuoft | there are other copies on Archive.org

HGMW, sermon, chapel, LST

twins; from http://longform.org/lists/best-of-2015

powerpoint, tufte - SEE LINKS AT END OF ARTICLE

Edinburgh; webpages; index

Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram

chagall, isaiah, united nations, Isa 2:4

£109.99, leica lens 10x optical zoom

ESVSB, Ezekiel, Justin Taylor

bandwidth speedtest, speed test | Netanalyzr = http://goo.gl/uqmClN [2015.03.10]

Toshiba BIOS password reset

check comments; WolfCMS

Little Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan, Helen Taylor

Hugh Williamson | only other "Stan Ford" finds: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/938281 | http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/searchresources/guidetospecialcollections/brethren/manuscripts/additional/ @ #214

calligraphy, handwriting, penmanship, cursive

BBC, Jesus, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1243954.stm

Hermeneutics.stackexchange.com - Dan O'Day

C.S. Lewis, favourite author (with E. Nesbit) according to Rowan Williams, The Lion's World, p. 34.

miracle cartoon | https://entangledphysics.com/2015/04/13/monday-humour-miracle-demonstrations/