The minute waltz, non-prime and 120-harmonic-reversed are worth listening to for a few hours on end.
A French team of mathemeticians and computer artists has just released a documentary that attempts to help us mere math-mortals transcend the three-dimensional space we are trapped in, and visualize regular polyhedra in 4 dimensions just as a Escher tile-lizard might visualize our 3-D world. The two hours worth of videos are very well done, and also touch on fractals, the Juliet Set, complex numbers and topology. This correspondent was only able to catch a tiny glimpse of 4-space, but it was stunning. It looks like an exquisite world, maybe even more beautiful than ours.
Being a born risk taker and adventurer, I couldn’t pass up the change to register for a sweepstakes put on by Kelty, makers of my sleeping bag and tent, to win a trip to Iceland and a bunch of gear. Of course I won’t win anything but the occasional spam email, but let’s pretend it’s a bacon bit and call it even.
But for some unfathomable reason, I actually bothered to glance at the Official Rules of the contest. I am glad I did, because it has revealed another one of those tiny little loose ends in the world that hints that everything you think you know, may be a lie.