One of the giant Nazca figures best viewed from above in a balloon or glider
Spider for Glider
Category Archives: Science
Floras Freude
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” — Iris Murdoch (1919–1999)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
Floras Freude means (I hope) “Flora’s Joy” in German.
Eggs for Eyes #2
White bird-eggs of various species
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Elsewhere other-accessible…
• Eggs for Eyes — colored eggs of various species
Russell in Your Head-Roe (Re-Visited)
“Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.” — Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook (1931)
Previously pre-posted
• Russell in Your Head-Roe — Bertrand Russell on mathematics
• A Ladd Inane — Bertrand Russell on solipsism
• Math Matters — Bertrand Russell on math and physics
• Whip Poor Wilhelm — Bertrand Russell on Friedrich Nietzsche
Farnsicht
Photo of developing ferns by the German nature photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932)
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Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
“Farnsicht” is a pun on German Farn, meaning “fern”, and Fernsicht, meaning “view” or “visibility” (literally fern, “far”, + Sicht, “visibility”).
Multicolore Mondo Macao #2
Blue-and-yellow macaw, Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758), by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Previously pre-posted
Eggs for Eyes
Eggs of various common species of British wild bird
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Strativarius
Multicolored rock strata at Zhangye National Geopark, 張掖國家地質公園, China
Potent Pencivity
“A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.” — Howard Whitley Eves (1911-2004)
Multicolore Mondo Macao
Red and yellow maccaw, Macrocercus aracanga, by Edward Lear (1812-1888)
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(Now Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao)
Elsewhere other-accessible…
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 