Today was, of course, the so-called Great North American Total Solar Eclipse of 2017, the first time in a century there has been a coast to coast total solar eclipse.  Nothing reminds you of celestial mechanics quite like seeing astronomical objects pass through each others shadows in real time.  So, I thought I’d spend a […]

Symmetry is a super important concept in pretty much every discipline I’m interested in, so I think about it a lot.  Sometimes, that thought is conscious, such as centering the Escher tiling at the beginning of this post.  Other times, it’s subconscious, like looking at an image or an object and “feeling” that something is […]

  So, in unusual form, I’m gonna write another blog post about a week after my last one!  I like this trend…perhaps I’ll keep it up. I have been “Facebooked” the following video quite a bit over the last month or so.  It’s about the fantastic numerology of the circle. While I do appreciate the […]