Mandelbrot monk
Fred points me to a lovely page about a 13th-century Benedictine monk whose attempt at mathematically modeling the journey of...
Archive for May 11, 2002
Bits of yesterday
Kendra tells me that LDS (the Mormon church) is growing fast; 40%+ (per year? I forget). Why do people convert,...
Parker on meth
Wil McCarthy has a cute article on "The Physics of Spider-Man" at SF Weekly. He discusses super-strength, wall-crawling, web-swinging, and...