After what seemed an interminably long Winter, (which wasn’t really – just felt that way), warmer weather is here. At least briefly. There is, of course, no guarantee that it will stay warm for long but beggars can’t be choosers and I have been begging for warmer days and milder nights for some time. Another harbinger of Spring, daylight savings time, is also nigh. But I can do without that.
But what shouldn’t be done without is another week of Blog Wyrm articles. This week Anyway, here is the column lineup for this week.
A lot of attention is paid to the idea of wealth and income inequality. All sorts of plans crop up to redistribute wealth from those that have to those that don’t. Maybe this is a good thing, maybe not. But surprisingly, little attention is paid to a kind of redistribution from those that don’t to those that do that occurs everyday under the guise of the common European currency the Euro. Don’t think it is possible? Check out this week’s Common Cents for an argument to the contrary.
Can a set of lines and points and arrows on a blackboard (or whiteboard as you prefer) really hide subtle classifications of and distinctions between mathematical objects? The answer is yes and Aristotle to Digital explains how displacement vectors in the plane are best understood as a set of instructions – a concept closely related to regarded infinity as a process and not a number.
Extending the well known results from classical scattering in a inverse-square force, this week, Under the Hood looks at the numerical results of scattering from a screened potential.
About Comics presents Part 4 of the ongoing review of the Everything Dies/Secret Wars storyline. This week, the revelations of who is behind all of the death and destruction is made and a curious similarity to another creation story is discovered.
Enjoy!