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Here's another in a long series of Quick Posts on the artistic display of data: this one shows comparative naval strengths just after the turn of the century around the time of the First Moroccan ...

I found this nice association copy of an unusual pamphlet 1--the work is on the Lowenbrau brewery in Munchen (with a nice bird's-eye view of the massive works), and it was given once upon a time to ...

[(DONALD, W(illiam) H(enry)] The subjoined letter written by Mr. W.H.Donald, Confidential Advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, gives a detailed account of the present situation in China. It has ...

Well, almost. The diagrams did mostly make an appearance earlier--though not in the Venn form--in the work of Christian Weise (d. 1708) and then in that of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), that according ...

Sometimes when you look hard enough you will see (if not actually "find") what you're looking for; determined to make a discovery, you can sometimes force yourself into believing that what you're ...

This simply irresistible, charmingly uncomfortable, and semi-surreal title is an excellent example of what I've come to know (and forget) in my career of doing whatever it is I'm doing. Generally ...

After billions of work hours invested in the Absolutely Enormous project to build atomic weapons in WWII, much of it (for a short period of time, anyway) was balanced in the hand of Sergeant Herbert ...

“The bees were made of sugar and honey, and so made them sting so sweet…” Billy “Craggy” Muffle singing on the French Broad River , 1935. Punched into the New York Times for 24 October 1909 was this ...

Lots of these images have to do with walking and falling, walking and falling at the same time, walking and catching yourself from falling over and over again, but in general that walk is only one ...

All I have in this question is the question, and one that I believe I have not seem before. There are certainly much earlier ideas published on writing machines--Lemuel Gulliver encounters such a ...

Frederick Kiesler (Director of the Laboratory of Design-Correlation, Columbia (University) School of Architecture) has been called one of America's most influential non-building architects of the 20th ...