Egyptian Fractions (2006)(blog.plover.com)

103 points by luu 4 months ago | 17 comments

Deciphering basmala(blog.plover.com)

77 points by lordgrenville 4 months ago | 25 comments

L-systems generate weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages(blog.plover.com)

11 points by surprisetalk 24 days ago | 3 comments

Blog post from The Universe of Discourse explaining how L-system string rewriting, starting from Fibonacci's rabbit problem, models weevils, pizza toppings, and matriarchal lineages.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)(blog.plover.com)

47 points by skm 2 months ago | 39 comments

One Plus One Equals Two (2006)(blog.plover.com)

105 points by lemper 2 years ago | 57 comments

It’s an age of marvels(blog.plover.com)

408 points by pavel_lishin 2 years ago | 389 comments

Blog post by Mark Dominus imagining which modern inventions would or would not astonish Benjamin Franklin, from streetlights and the internet to Wikipedia and Moon landings.