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4th December 2009
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4th December 2009The Black and White PastAn old mental_floss post begins with a section which makes me think someone is reading my thoughts ((Maybe I should don a tinfoil hat.)): ...having seen mostly black-and-white pictures of the world pre-1960 or so (I’m not counting Technicolor movies), I begin to imagine the past unfolding in monochrome. I almost always imagine the time before the 60s in black and white: The Titanic, the Victorians and the World Wars ((Though, strangely, before the 1700s, everything - from the Tudors to the Egyptians - I imagine in colour. That adds evidence to my hypothesis that my imagination is prejudiced by the viewing ...
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4th December 2009SmugopediaI like this Smugopedia entry on Malcolm Gladwell: The problem with Malcolm Gladwell is that he writes too well: when you read him, you don't know if you're agreeing with his controversial ideas because he's right, or because he's enchanted you. The site hasn't been updated for a while, it's still worth the time to read it if you haven't before.
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About Wilf's Blog
I'm a mathematician, but apart from that, I'm a fairly normal guy. I used to write a blog - this blog. I write (wrote) about whatever is on my mind. It can get quite personal sometimes.
