Alan Kennedy’s Color/Language Project lists color idioms in many languages (thanks to Anka Pero for bringing it to our attention). Click on the non-especially-colorful image here to get to the fully-color-filled chart.
Month: December 2010
Gunning fog
“In linguistics, the Gunning fog index is a test designed to measure the readability of a sample of English writing,” says Wikipedia. Someone named Simon has put a Gunning fog calculator online. This and the preceding paragraph together have a Gunning fog index of 11.47, sayeth the calculator.
Purposes: Philosophy vs. mathematics
What is mathematics? Somebody once said that philosophy is the misuse of a terminology which was invented just for this purpose.* In the same vein, I would say that mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. — from “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural […]
Miles Rzechowicz joins LFHCfS
Miles Rzechowicz joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). His brother Julian, who nominated him, says: Due to following his supervisor around Miles managed to move away and disappear to Perth from Canberra. Over this time he decided that his hair looked better not cut. As such, since 2007 when he first went […]