Merry Christmas from all the staff at Blog Wyrm. This year we’ve tried to make a special effort to be able to take time to be with friends and family and we hope each of you have as well.

Now onto the posts.

After over four years of blogging, About Comics is retiring for the foreseeable future. Comics fatigue brought on the pure pointlessness of modern comics is the cause. The cure has yet to be discovered. So it is a bittersweet time to say goodbye.

This month, Aristotle To Digital continues to analyze the chaos game method for creating self-similar fractals like the Sierpinski triangle.
The focus is on how a single iteration of the game maps points in the plane to other points in the plane through the various affine transformations.

Poor economic thinking honors no bounds of time or space. Throughout history and in all lands there have been bad arguments based on emotion and not on logic for how a society should use its precious, scarce resources. This month Common Cents examines a contemporary example all the way from Peru.

One of the most exciting and important aspects of continuum mechanics is the analysis of elastic waves in various media. Applications of the basic theory abound from understanding the motion and stability of bridges and buildings to Under The Hood derives a simple model for P and S waves in isotropic materials..

Enjoy!