This is merely link-blogging, but I think you’ll forgive that once you’ve seen Alex Wellerstein’s terrific post on I.D. photos for the Manhattan Project. I read his blog regularly, and you should too.
And yes, that’s you-know-who, looking like he came straight from central casting to play Boy Genius.
Leland Purvis does the art, I do the writing, you do the reading. It’s great when things are simple like that.
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of two of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. You can find out what Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong said to Congress over at Tor.com…
This is a good thing to read today: All The Names: Algorithmic Design and the 9/11 Memorial.
Really. The Wall Street Journal of all places: Can Comic Books Explain Science?. It’s been a week of unlikely (but lovely!) things, thanks to Feynman.
A while back I wrote a piece about Feynman for my Corporate Overlords™. I wrote a few, in fact, but “Fine Tuning Feynman“ is the first to appear. I like the way it turned out, and I hope you do too.
