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Perhaps you are thinking of the 1927 Solvay Conference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jp...

Thanks! I didn't know this one either.

wow. thank you.

Also Edgar Anderson's "Plants, Man, and Life" on a similar theme.

I'm not very sure about the vinegar + steal wool part... that makes ferrous acetate pretty quickly, and what we want here is a ferro-gallate. I think there are ways of producing fe…

that's a pretty fun read.

Mint :(

Excellent comment. I'm one of those people who always thought: "I can't draw". Now I understand that for me it is a matter of practice. I started with Drawing on the Right Side of …

This book is not really addressing the more common "is math real" question of it being empirical or invented. For an interesting take on that question, see the 1st section of the 2…

$62 to access the paper

some of us still make calotypes https://www.flickr.com/groups/1384661@N22/

This could be a big deal if the new vaccines work well, especially if they work well in older people. Hope for the best.

I don't disagree with you, but this is a horribly sad comment. I worry that the text of papers often gives short shrift to nuance and subtlety that is necessary for reasonable inte…

Thanks! Did not know about this and now it is on my list of places to visit.

I've also been roasting coffee from Sweet Maria's for many years, and the thing that's useful is that I learned how Tom will describe flavors that I like. So, whether he calls it "…

good comment. This seems to come up more in number theory than in foundations/philosophy of mathematics, but I agree is has an important place. Not just triangles, but natural numb…

There was a paper a few years ago in the American Mathematical Monthly ( sorry... can't remember the author, I think it was a Russian mathematician ) that gave some interesting heu…

Agreed, and current estimates are more on the order of 4 to 5 per million. A high proportion of these cases are among people with a history of anaphylactic reactions to drugs, need…

If you've got enough math background to follow it, Harold Edwards' Riemann's Zeta Function is a gem of a book and available inexpensively from Dover. There is an English translatio…

Agreed. Interesting point about Bayesian methods, whenever there are potential flaws or additional uncertainty, it's better if they are more explicit to prompt thoughtful interpret…

Yes, okay. There are implicit assumptions in scientific studies ( e.g.: there are no invisible elephants, or the study we are doing is actually related to the question we are inves…

This is why we report statistical power. It does in fact put probabalistic limits on the size of the elephant. In effect, we can make a statement like "at least 90% of studies like…

Making calotypes is my hobby! Here's another good resource about Talbot https://talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Agree Feller is excellent. I don't think it has much in the way of prerequisites and comes at probability from a solid "fundamental understanding" POV. Volume 2 is more difficult b…

If you mean Hardy and Wright's Introduction to the Theory of Numbers , I agree it is excellent, but you can solve the great majority of the project Euler problems without going to …