Monthly Archives: April 2010

Nature by Numbers

via youtube.com If it weren’t for that one tech­ni­cal error of the golden spi­ral being put onto the snail’s shell, which is actu­ally a log­a­rith­mic spi­ral, this would’ve been the awe­somest video ever made. Update: That error, is not an error. Appar­ently, I was trust­ing my false resid­ual mem­ory of the same, and a com­ment

Major Joke: That kid makes up questions for himself, and even those he can’t solve

Major truth: He is truly awe­some. Or at least, so I believe. When Lock­hart said, In fact,  if  I  had  to  design  a mech­a­nism  for  the  express pur­pose  of  destroy­ing  a  child’s  nat­ural curios­ity and  love of  pattern-making, I couldn’t pos­si­bly do as good a  job as  is  cur­rently being done. I didn’t quite agree with