.... "If the brain was so simple that we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we couldn't." -- Emerson M. Pugh

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

"Murmurs"

I greatly enjoy K.C. Cole's popularized science essays, especially her volume, "Mind Over Matter: Conversations With the Cosmos." Apparently, mathematician Keith Devlin (who's writings I also enjoy) likewise admires K.C. He once designated one of her essays "the best popular science essay ever" (I wouldn't go that far, but all her writing is good), and wrote about it here:

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_05_04.html

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