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Harry Rountree was a New Zealand-British illustrator and painter. He worked in England around the turn of the 20th century. His illustrations for Alice are rather different. The front piece is in in colour, and depicts the fight of Alice with Jabberwocky. I have found another front piece which depicts the Mad Hatter s Tea Continue reading Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland Part 6 Harry Rountree
Perhaps one of the most profound dialogues in The Matrix is when Neo is brought to the Construct and Morpheus begins to explain him the very concept of The Matrix. Neo: This…this isn’t real? Morpheus: What is real? How do you define real? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, Continue reading A Matrix perspective on AI generated content
Cartesian geometry emerged from the same social context as modern cartography. Alexandrian astronomy also precipitated a more decisive departure from the sterile tradition of Platonic geometry. From Euclid, the first teacher of Alexandrian mathematics, the Alexandrians had received Plato’s idealistic doctrine that mathematics should be cultivated as an aid to spiritual refinement. The first…
We dreamed of decentralised social networks as email 2.0. They truly are television 2.0. They are entertainment platforms that delegate media creation to the users themselves the same way Uber replaced taxis by having people drive others in their own car. But what was created as ride-sharing was in fact a way to 1) destroy Continue reading Social networks
TLDR: Constellation is one of the best science fiction series I have seen in a while. A must watch! I recently watched the Apple TV series Constellation. The series is gripping, engages you both visually and conceptually and explores some of the deep fears and facts of the human condition. So what is the Continue reading A Review of Apple TV series Constellation (2024)
Blanche McManus (1869–1935) was an American writer and artist. She and her husband, wrote a series of illustrated travel books, many of which included information about automobiles which were new at the time. [wiki] She also illustrated both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. In this post we see her illustrations for the Continue reading Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland – Part…
The present post is from a rather peculiar version of Alice s Adventures translated to Esperanto. The book was published in 1910 by the British Esperanto Association and the translation to Esperanto was done by E. L. Kearney. The illustrations about 10 are by Brinsley Le Fanu (by kind permission of the publisher of Stead’s Prose Classics). Continue reading Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland –…
INTRODUCTION It is very rarely that the teacher in India knows the parents of his pupils. Even when he knows them, it is very rarely that he takes up the problems of his pupils for discussion with them. Still it cannot be denied that mutual understanding and cooperation between the teacher and the parent can Continue reading The Teacher and the Parent
The Quantum Quarrel Characters: Niels Bohr: A physicist of profound thought, firm in his interpretation of the quantum realm. Albert Einstein: A physicist of equal renown, resolute in his belief that the cosmos is orderly and deterministic. Narrator: Sets the scene. Setting: A dimly lit chamber adorned with celestial globes, chalkboards scribbled with equations, and Continue reading The Quantum…
Recently Government of Maharashtra introduced a new idea of reducing the passing marks mathematics and science. It is no secret that mathematics is the most hated and dreaded subject in school learning for many students. Over the decades this idea has been reinforced. Only a few bright students in the class seem to enjoy mathematics Continue reading On reducing the science and maths pass marks
