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a- Politicians with courage (in Spain).     In the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump, February 9th–13th, video footage was shown of events in the Capitol building during the January 6th protests. I had things to say about that video footage in my February 12th podcast. They were not very kind things. I spoke of the congressfolk "scampering off to safety under the guidance of armed Capitol Hill cops while an  un-armed mob filled the corridors." I quoted a friends email from earlier...

Valentine: And everything is mixing the same way, all the time, irreversibly . . . Septimus: Oh, we have time, I think. Valentine: . . . till there’s no time left. That’s what time means. * Begun in 1991, worked on through 1992 and staged in 1993, Arcadia is a mid-life play. It is written at a time of looking back and looking forward, just as the play looks back and forward. The parallel lines spoken by Septimus and Valentine in the last act hold in one mental space the moment in which we ...

Historical documents are uncovered that provide clues to a puzzle that haunted Charles Darwin.

Mathematics is a subject that dates back thousands of years. Central to the subject is the idea of proof, a rigorous, step-by-step argument, starting from a few basic facts accepted as true, that conclusively demonstrates that a statement is true. Over the past few decades, however, the use of computers to prove statements has transformed the way mathematicians think about proof – and created controversy in the field. Imagine taking the positive whole numbers, 1, 2, 3, … up to and including...