Like its brother issue last week, Issue 21 is tardy. And like last week, we at Blog Wyrm continue to revel in the afterglow of Graduation events and the hectic fallout of needing to be in 5 places all at the same time.
The major difference is that this being Issue 21 and the graduation activities are finally over and the need for an adult beverage is here. Fortunately, Blog Wyrm has turned 21 so its legal.
This week’s Common Cents presents the other side of the David and Goliath story in modern economics. David can and does win due to diseconomies of scale that make Goliath look more like a brontosaurus. Added bonus: a special appearance by the manager everybody loves to hate
Self-reference, paradox, and natural language are the focus of this week’s Aristotle to Digital. Russell and Godel grapple with the Liar’s Paradox.
Can a comic be a sequel to a movie? Can it be successful if it is? As About Comics shows, the comic version of Big Trouble in Little China is a fun and worthy successor of the famous movie of the same name.
Finally, this week’s Under the Hood covers the numerical modeling of the vibrational energy of H2. Numerical methods based on Numpy and Scipy take center stage.
Enjoy!