by scribe | Sep 24, 2013 | off-topic
When I came to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, I expected a feast for my mind. I didn’t expect a feast for my eyes! Take a look at this incredible video, by Diana Davis, which was featured in today’s lecture by Fields medalist Curtis McMullen. Davis, who is...
by scribe | Sep 24, 2013 | off-topic
For generations, geometers have gotten used to not being able to see the objects that they prove theorems about. It’s a somewhat sad development in a subject that began in Euclid’s day with the splendidly visual concepts of points, lines, triangles, circles, conic...
by scribe | Sep 18, 2013 | off-topic, people
Why should sighted people have all the fun? Kyle Rector, one of the young participants in this year’s Heidelberg Laureate Forum, doesn’t think they should. As part of her dissertation research on “eyes-free technology” at the University of Washington, with...
by scribe | Sep 13, 2013 | off-topic
Put away those chess boards and chess books! It is now time for some Truly Edifying Entertainment. Yes, we have another video of my cat Max, doing various dog impersonations and showing us that Cats Can Fetch, Too. More Max videos, as always, at...
by scribe | Sep 5, 2013 | Chess Lecture, current news, off-topic
After many years of not changing very much, ChessLecture.com is really starting to try some new ideas this year, and I think it’s a great thing. They are releasing many of the older series of lectures as DVD’s, and posting some of the lectures on the new...
by scribe | Jul 29, 2013 | Chess Lecture, off-topic
First a little bit of chess news in a mostly off-topic post: ChessLecture now has a YouTube page, so if any of you have ever wondered what the lectures are like, you can now watch a few (well, only one at this point, but I’m sure there will soon be more) without...
