Okay, we know that the official arrival of fall isn’t for another 3-4 weeks and that the days are still hot, but… 1) kids are back in school, 2) the days are getting noticeably shorter (it’s dark when we wake up), and 3) football is ready to burst into our living rooms and onto our home theater setups every weekend. So yes, a hint of fall is in the air even if the leaves are still green. And as we ease into the waning of the year, isn’t comforting to know that Blog Wyrm is back from it’s summer hiatus.
This week, Aristotle to Digital examines the very slippery idea of representations and representation theory and dives into the question ‘when is the image of a thing also the same as the thing itself?’
About Comics continues its epic exploration of the ideas, the philosophies, the theories and the tricks of the trade that go into making a good story. Focus for this column is Part One of Denny O’Neil’s book on writing comics the DC way.
Original research is at the heart of this week’s Common Cents. As the layers of the onion are peeled back from the old saw that the US uses more than it’s fair share of energy, Common Cents finds that a very different story of energy efficiency emerges.
Finally, Under the Hood returns with one last hurrah on the Lie Series front. In this week’s offering, the techniques for turning a non-autonomous system into an autonomous one are showcased in the clear example of a particle subjected to a time-varying driving force.
Enjoy.