Edward Vogel

Dark brown thick pancake on a white plate. Upper - some bowls, one with a smiling cat

Super moon night.
And now?
Moon Cake of course.
Harvest moon at any rate.
Apples from a friend's tree in egg, honey and Bisquick.

Ode to Jody

Full moon rise over trees.

First moon pic with inexpensive telescope and handheld cellphone.
Going to get some filters (the physical object kind) and sort out a better camera thing.

Bonus - a woman at the lake(lady of?!?) helped me find and focus on Saturn at x60 magnification! Could just make out the rings.

Full moon rising over trees

My first moon pic with inexpensive telescope and handheld cellphone pic.
Thank you for your astronomical inspiration!

@npr.org I know you all are busy but I think feds shooting pepper rounds at clergy is worthy of your attention.

I am an MPR donor.

Here’s the video of the incident

In today’s episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle interviews Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Director of Research at the Massachusetts Historical Society, to uncover the hidden battle against smallpox during the Revolution. Thank you @mhs1791.bsky.social

🎙️ Check it out here: buff.ly/Em74B8C

Laurie Anderson Isn’t Playing Games In the artist’s studio, we played her 1995 Puppet Motel on a blue iBook G3 and talked about technology, cyberspace, and abstraction.

“When I was a kid, I went to school and instead of saying goodbye, my mother would say, ‘Win.’ I was like, ‘Win, what?’ But there’s always a contest. I didn’t want to be involved.” —Laurie Anderson, musician and artist

-AF

Well said. Having been to several engineering conferences and two mathematics conferences. Math folks are more fun and like to play.

Yum!

I feel seen.

Snippet of a tree graph of the Soma Cube. Background - spreadsheet entries the tree graph is generated from Foreground 1 - yellow squares that represent a branch in the tree with black lines going out to smaller yellow squares with numbers in them. Foreground2 - mostly along top edge, 3x3 array of concentric circles, colored to represent different layers of the cube and which piece is situated in it. from page 21 of "Mining the Soma Cube..." https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1951&context=jhm

Some of my favorite families. Not shown here but there is a "null" family. All of conditions needed exist for a Soma Cube to happen but it doesn't. Weird stuff.

Good and realistic piece by @clarajeffery.bsky.social

Our most populous, most productive, most powerful, and most federal-tax-paying state can do more to throw its weight around. And stop a bully.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Technology | The Guardian My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

> I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever. — T. Berners-Lee

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

YouTube video by Andrew Misseldine Group Theory and Particle Physics (feat. Rebecca Nelson)

They might enjoy this -
Group Theory and Particle Physics (feat. Rebecca Nelson)
youtu.be/w-HygD3yLho?...

www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-d...

UL - clay cat supporting clay skew tetrahedron on a vertex UR - clay cat supporting clay skew tetrahedron on an edge Mid - six 3x3 square grids showing many ways a green 3x1 stick, yellow 3x1 "L", orange 2x1 stick and 1x1 red square tile it. Lower - colored squares in a row representing the number of positions each piece occupies in the six grids with a triangle whose size is determines by the number of squares

Air dry clay math fun. The "amplituhedron" (not to scale, yet) of a simple four piece tiling puzzle called SIXL(six unique tilings).

Thanks @quantamagazine.bsky.social for the amplituhedron article(link in comments).

#graphtheory #pentominoes #tiling #combinatorics #clay
#mathart

My linocut portrait of Henrietta Swan Leavitt is printed in silvery lavender ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry paper). Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of time (t). She is printed over constellations in gold (Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Draco, Ursa Minor and Andromeda). ⁠ ⁠

For the #spacetober_challenge day 6 prompt constellation, I am sharing my portrait of #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 Behind her is a line showing stellar luminosity (capital L with subscript sun-symbol, a circle with a dot) as a function of 🧵

Your daily moment of zen:

Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation.

Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.

Pretty disturbing numbers.

Navy vet here - this is not appropriate behavior

Orange with brown stripes clay cat using its head to hold up air-dry clay tetrahedron

Skew tetrahedron with a little help from TC.

Strongly ...

Quick sketch for #mathober in p5: codepen.io/fractalkitty...

#mathober2025 #creativeCoding

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Not if, imho.

🧪🐡🧮

The main image in the top left shows a radial design created with 21st Century Pattern Blocks. It was built by arranging six regular hexagons around a central hexagon. All seven hexagons share the same composition and have 4” sides. The first image along the bottom shows a scaled-up kite which is used to create the regular hexagon (with 4” sides) shown in the second image. The kite is made of 2 blue rhombuses, 2 gray darts, and 4 pink triangles. The three images on the right show the progression of the design.

Pattern block play! #21CenturyPB #iTeachMath

emergency clause is open-ended, interpreters should emphasize context and purposes to give intelligible meaning and scope to the clause; and second, the means must fit the emergency ends. Congress expects emergency powers to be invoked when immediate action from the President is necessary to effectively respond to a disaster or crisis reached by the statute; Congress never intended emergency power provisions to aggrandize the reach of presidential power past the intended reach of a statute. Thus, when an emergency power is invoked, it should typically be permissible only if it does not conflict with statutory purpose. When a President invokes a statute to support action that does not align with—or runs directly contrary to—statutory purpose, that is evidence of an abuse of power. The language, legislative history, and historical context of a statute may shed light on its purpose. This approach would serve as a solution to both problems: First, it solves a longstanding problem in the in

"When a President invokes a statute to support action that does not align with—or runs directly contrary to—statutory purpose, that is evidence of an abuse of power."

- @jedshug.bsky.social

(We shouldn't need this reminder, but in these times...)

journals.law.harvard...

A digital sketch. A black-capped chickadee pecks at something in a crack on a boulder ther shap of a dodecahedron in a boulderfield. the boulder has some moss, ferns, and fungus on it, but the rest in the field do not. Only the boulder that the chickadee is on is in focus.

Polyhedron - #mathober day 3

#polyhedron #mathober2025 #mtbos #mathart #pnw #birds #birdart