What it’s like to run a marathon in space.
Mathematical artwork from Chris Henden:
finite projective plane
balanced incomplete block design
binomial expansion
(A lot of mathematical art is gimmicky. Interesting, but not beautiful. Chris Henden’s work is beautiful. I believe people would enjoy it who had no appreciation for the math that inspired the artwork. Here are a couple non-mathematical pieces by the same artist: life drawing, Abu Dhabi.)
Andrew Gelman’s take on the statistics of the recent election in Iran. Note that he says “let me emphasize that I’m not saying that I think nothing funny was going on in the election. As I wrote, I’m commenting on the statistics.”
Interview with James Olson, author of Making Cancer History, a history of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. (See related cartoon.)
Long list of use useful command line commands on Windows.
Recursing over the Pareto Principle. Humorous look at taking the Pareto Principle (a.k.a. 80-20 rule) too far.
Server design, a blog post about “the Four Horsemen of Poor Performance.”
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