data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics An amazing blog logging all kinds of ways of visualazing data (tags: artofharvesting art maps map design networks presentation visualization information data)
clivejames.com At the moment, the contraption, built in a garden shed and first tested off the tops of small hills, is more like a free university having a love affair with a space station. Another useful analogy might be with a clearing in the jungle. The web is certai (tags: culture literature writing) Equations as icons (March 2007) – Physics World – PhysicsWeb The spell of equations that I want to discuss is something different, that of genuine equations that enthral authentic scientists. In addition to the two I mentioned already, other equations that I think are legitimate icons include …
Closing up some tabs that have been opened for a while: Back to Bach: ” How, though, does Bach’s music achieve, or at least point to, transcendence?” Good question. A new book takes a stab at the answer. Robert Paterson at his finest, as he compares our engagement with global warming to the appeasement of Hitler by Chamberlain in 1939: “So here is my prediction. I think that the time now is Munich. Our politicians think that they can negotiate with the institutions that really govern us. We hope they can too. After all – who wants to …