Pure Art, well, Art, is not so different from Pure Math, it’s scientific-world analog. For instance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated 51,000 craft and fine artist jobs in 2012 but only 3,500 mathematician jobs in that year. (And that’s all mathematician jobs, not just ones for pure mathematicians, which are less since it’s essentially a hobby.) Well, maybe that’s not so enlightening. Certainly mathematicians were estimated to be better paid. But mathematicians and some physicists are the only people that can appreciate pure mathematics. Unlike art. See more in this blog.
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200-year Mistaken Attribution
Learned from curiosa mathematica about this recently corrected mistaken attribution:
This guy, Louis Legendre, politician, was mistakenly pictured for….
this guy, Adrien-Marie Legendre, mathematician, for two centuries!
Sure, some might say, well, they did him a favor. I bet both would disagree.
iTunes Visualizer
Remember how great it was? (Was its heyday before YouTube?) Well, it’s still there when you’re ready. Still nothing like it. Press appleT
Caveat Internet
The Internet hasn’t settled everything, maybe even anything. To actually know, we, unfortunately, are the ones who have to do all the work. Figures. This is what happens when less is more collides with more is more.
Looks Like We’ve got the Electromagnetic Spectrum Covered
Where Is He Now?
Analog!
It was a good run.
Internet Quizzes: Science and Religion
Last month scored highest possible on Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine’s Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz! Me and about 130 others got all right and did better than the other nearly 930 adults. But on Pew’s Religious Knowledge quiz I only did better than 87% (3,412 adults), 12 of 15 correct. So I can’t compare these easily–and with my math ability not at all. But c’mon!, how many religions should I be fluent in?
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12
Wanted to remember January 12, 2012 at 12:12. But in the end it didn’t matter. What did I do? Who knows?