This is definitely the most interesting thing I've seen this week. And you can even make your own...
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Roberta is a great philosopher from UC Davis and she's talking about the notion of populations.
Known she needed a definition of population for a long time - this is a first stab.
Mark C. Chu-Carroll at Good Math, Bad Math has an excellent post in which he mercilessly dispatches the misbegotten idea that infinity is a number. It's not.
Definitely bio. Definitely ephemera. Definitely NSFW...
Hey, if you like those, see also here, here, here, and here. Origami has been my hobby for a couple of decades now...it's a terrific mix of science (and math, if you're so inclined) and art.
Ooh! I found this really great origami ankylosaurus a while ago. I didn't try to make it...I was sorta turned off by the number of folds and the size of the paper required. Eek.
When I was 16, me and three other friends made 1000 paper cranes for a friend of ours who was sick with cancer. It was quite an experience. I still have at least one of them with me.
Thanks, Jerry! I don't think I have the aptitude for it, but I might just give it a try.