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Tying and Detangling Topology, from the Greek topos (place) and logos (study), originally named the mathematical field concerned with properties preserved through deformation—those essential patterns that remain unbroken even when stretched, twisted, or compressed. Yet beneath its surface lies a deeper, almost mythic resonance: the art of understanding how forms persist, adapt, and relate amid […]

Endurance

Because Zimoun’s “186-prepared-DC-motors” pieces use the same kind of small brushed motors you find in toys or window-shade rollers, we can take the published figures for those devices as a realistic yard-stick. A typical 130-size hobby motor draws about 70 mA with no load at 6 V and 250 mA under the light mechanical load […]

Abstract

That everybody present should know what thinking is and what is abstract is presupposed in good society, and we certainly are in good society. The question is merely who thinks abstractly. Who thinks abstractly? The uneducated, not the educated. Good society does not think abstractly because it is too easy, because it is too lowly— […]

Ulysses

Mercator and heterochronic shortcuts This is the point beyond the limitations of selfhood-as-possession or as a retrievable “core.” The katabasis isn’t the hero fetching a private identity from the underworld like some dropped coin; it is the realization that identity itself is the coherence of inherited forms in motion, a lived convergence of mythic, ethical, […]

Mono

Ancient Greece had received the Eleusinian Mysteries, a cohort of ideas that were divorced from their Persian and Phoenician roots as a result of later reflective history, and it echoed through history into Rome. But this heritage was that of those who killed Socrates, the Thirty Tyrants, and not the heritage and impulse of that […]

Maß

The distance is that people don’t understand Epigenetic’s. You are never done expressing your genome and in fact what you do in this life, just as it was described by Lamark, better described by Ovid in The Metamorphosis, affects the genes that are expressed and, if you imagine how many, not only genes, but variations […]

Puddle of Mud

Where’d all this water come from? The map shows a circular overlay centered around the Mediterranean region, covering parts of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. This question—“Where’d all this water come from?”—likely refers to the Mediterranean Sea, which dominates the center of the image. The Mediterranean Sea is a remnant of a much […]

ABUSE

“Adikocracy” — a term that doesn’t yet formally exist in political theory or philosophy, but has the ring of a neologism, formed from the Greek root adikía (ἀδικία), meaning injustice, and the suffix -cracy (κρατία), meaning rule or power. Thus, Adikocracy would mean: the rule of injustice. In such a system, injustice is not a […]

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Imagine the new lithium-niobate topological pump as a music box whose entire melody has been squeezed from a meter-long cylinder down to a two-centimetre sliver, yet every tooth still plucks the notes in perfect order. By showing that the quantized 2π Berry phase survives even at this “adiabatic infimum,” photonic engineers have demonstrated that the […]

SBR

“They worshipped ‘names’, but of course they did not worship the uttered words; they worshipped the thing named—‘Hubal’—yet there was no such thing in reality, for mere words do not bring a referent into being.” If we invert the profound tradition of Divine Names and imagine instead a catalog of “Cursed Attributes,” we begin to […]

Yugoslavia

12 May 1992: People are not little stones or keys in someone’s pocket, that can be moved from one place to another just like that. … Therefore, we cannot precisely arrange for only Serbs to stay in one part of the country while removing others painlessly. I do not know how Mr. Krajišnik and Mr. Karadžić […]

Krypto

“Well, this is Krypton. Nobody knows what the people on Krypton look like. What if we look like bagels, but I’m going to make my son look like a human because that’s where I’m sending him – to Earth – but everybody else on Krypton looks like bagels. That would really be original.” – Marlon […]

∮

can you measure ∮ ρₒ Ω·dl, and does it lock to integer h —- The Shepard tone is an auditory illusion that gives the impression of a tone that is infinitely ascending or descending in pitch, yet it never actually gets any higher or lower. Named after cognitive scientist Roger Shepard, it’s sometimes called a […]