Sat, 08 Mar 2025
Best of the Universe of Discourse
I try not to spend too much time navel-gazing, but this is the 20th anniversary of the blog, so I thought I'd observe it with a retrospective of my favorite articles of the past 20 years.
What they mostly have in common, I think, is that you would have been unlikely to read any of them on anyone else's blog.
Technical excellence
How Forbes made a list of the 20 most important tools and forgot to include the hammer
You can learn to read Middle English
What's in those brown metal cabinets?
I struggle to
understand Traversable
Obsessive geekery
The 23-part series on the Evpatoria Cosmic Call message
Nobody else would have written this
Graphic excellence
Incenters of chocolate-iced cakes
Technical jargon failure modes
Pedagogy
How to explain infinity to kids
Solving problems that make other people ask "what does that even mean?"
Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same
I found the best anagram in English
Similarity analysis of quilt blocks
Dishonorable mentions
Jools Holland and An Austrian coincidence.
Norton Juster award for Lower Mathematics at Work
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