Tidbits for Your Weekend Reading

Encounter with the Infinite: How Did the Minimally Trained, Isolated Srinivasa Ramanujan, with Little More than an Out-of-Date Elementary Textbook, Anticipate Some of the Deepest Theoretical Problems of Mathematics—Including Concepts Discovered Only after His Death? Ms. Jen says – Well written article on Srinivasa…

Monday Tidbits to Start Your Week Off

Here is a hodge podge of reading links I have been saving in my tidbits folder for you: Astronomers strike gold – and platinum – as they watch two neutron stars collide Kodak’s First Digital Moment In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling “Lizzie…

xkcd: Landing, or How to Land on but not really Harpoon a Periodic Comet

Wed 11.12.14 – xkcd nicely sums up today’s Philae landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Other news sources report some very happy folks at the European Space Agency’s mission control. Plus photos from the Flickr Blog.