I suppose that summer is really and truly here now that the temperatures are pushing the mid-nineties and the humidity is a making each day an adventure in sweating. That said, it is nice to see lots of sunshine for a change and, now that schools are out and graduations are a thing of the past, perhaps there will be some time to unwind during the dogs days that lie before us.
Despite the heat (or maybe because of it – its easier to write inside when its muggy outside), we have a nice set of columns this week.
The final act the initial story arc in Big Trouble in Little China closes out the very fun three-part review in this week’s About Comics.
Owing in part to American Pharoah’s win at Belmont last Saturday and in part to the very weird holding pattern of the stock market these days a small discussion of the finer points of being a bookie are discussed in Common Cents. Find out how to make book and run a hedge fund in one easy lesson.
Plato introduced the concept of the ideal form to Western Philosophy and so changed the way we think about… well, thinking. So what would he say to a discussion of errors and uncertainty in modern science and engineering? Aristotle to Digital explores this hypothetical situation and finds that the answer is rather hard to come by.
Think your intuition is strong enough to explain just how field energy flows in a variety of situations? Under the Hood puts it to the test and ends up Poynting to a way to better understand Maxwell’s equations.
Enjoy.