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  • Museletter the 128th

    This week, as the world is celebrating the 60th Super Bowl, I’m spending a lot of time marveling about the number 60…

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  • Museletter the 127th

    While scientists search for Dark Matter—that mysterious stuff that seems to be holding the universe together—I'm taking…

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  • Museletter the 126th

    You know, it seemed like a good idea at the time… though in retrospect it was probably the stupidest thing I ever did…

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  • Museletter the 125th

    I'm feeling so very thankful today. I mean, yes, the world is in shambles, and there is discomfort and difficulties…

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  • Museletter the 124th

    I have what feels like a somewhat embarrassing admission: No matter how hard I try, when I close my eyes, I cannot…

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  • Museletter the 123rd

    It's funny, but working with AI reminds me a lot of "the good ol' days." You see, what a lot of younger people don't…

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  • Museletter the 122nd

    You know that awkward feeling when what someone says doesn't match how they say it? It's confusing, right? This is true…

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  • Museletter the 121st

    I still have every computer I've ever owned — all the way back to my 1984 Apple Macintosh 128k… every computer except…

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  • Museletter the 120th

    Why do humans make and listen to music? I mean, sure it's fun, but it's kind of a bizarre thing to do if you think too…

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  • Museletter the 119th

    "What's going to happen to my website after I die?" I still remember sitting in a little neighborhood cafe in 1996…

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    Board of Trustees for Woodinville Montessori School, an accredited preK-thru-12th school.

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  • Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity

    Bloomsbury/Walker Books

    How can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years? Spectrums tackles these questions by exploring realms far outside our everyday experience that boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden…

    How can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years? Spectrums tackles these questions by exploring realms far outside our everyday experience that boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden realities, Spectrums is full of hundreds of facts, quotes, illustrations, and anectodes that lead to a greater appreciation of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live.

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  • The Joy of Pi

    Walker Books/Bloomsbury

    No number has captured the attention and imagination of number fanatics and nerds throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter--a.k.a. pi. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, The Joy of Pi brings us the story of pi and humankind's fascination with it, from Archimedes to da Vinci to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers, who holed up in their Manhattan apartment with a homemade supercomputer churning out digits of pi into the…

    No number has captured the attention and imagination of number fanatics and nerds throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter--a.k.a. pi. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, The Joy of Pi brings us the story of pi and humankind's fascination with it, from Archimedes to da Vinci to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers, who holed up in their Manhattan apartment with a homemade supercomputer churning out digits of pi into the billions.

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