Thursday, October 18, 2018
Mookie Betts's Glove Was in the Field of Play
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I got the tl;dr out of the way in the title. I've written previously about the value of multiple points of view (literal points of ...
Monday, April 23, 2018
Cicada Recurrence and the Allee Effect
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One of the best-known phenomena in the insect world is the unusual recurrence of various populations of cicada. There aren't any cicada...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Competing at the Limit
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I participate from time to time at a site called Math StackExchange , where users ask and answer questions about mathematics. Most often,...
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Racing to the End
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The last of four Chinese novels on my reading list, 錢鐘書 Qián Zhōngshū's 圍城 Fortress Besieged , is its author's sole piece of long ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016
On the Border
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Third on my Chinese novel reading list was 邊城 Border Town , by 沈從文 Shěn Cóngwén. This slender volume, occupying only seventy or so pages...
A Turn of the Wheel
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The second Chinese novel in my reading program was Mo Yan's 生死疲勞 Life and Death are Wearing Me Out . This absurd tale of reincarnati...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Monkeying Around
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As I mentioned previously , my first Chinese novel reading project was 西遊記 Journey to the West (1592). Attributed to 吳承恩 Wú Chéng'ēn...
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