Archive for November, 2008

Title of the Day

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

La Monte Young, The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry in Prime Time When Centered above and below The Lowest Term Primes in The Range 288 to 224 with The Addition of 279 and 261 in Which The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped above and Including 288 Consists of The Powers of 2 Multiplied by The Primes [...]

Quote of the Day

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Isaac Beekman, whom Jacob identifies as “the first mechanical philosopher of the Scientific Revolution”, was confident that “God had so constructed the whole of nature that our understanding … may thoroughly penetrate all the things on earth” (Jacob 1988, p. 52). Similar theses are propounded with the same confidence today, notably by people who describe [...]

Gloom for the Ecstatic

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Maartje M. L. de Win, Gerry Jager, Jan Booij, Liesbeth Reneman, Thelma Schilt, Cristina Lavini, Sílvia D. Olabarriaga, Gerard J. den Heeten and Wim van den Brink, “Sustained effects of ecstasy on the human brain: a prospective neuroimaging study in novel users”, in Brain, Vol. 131, No. 11, November 2008, pp. 2936–2945.

Although we do not [...]