Archive for The New Yorker
lost mathematicians of 2020
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, University life with tags 2020, Annals of Inquiry, Freeman Dyson, john Conway, Ronald Graham, The New Yorker on January 17, 2021 by xi'an
ultimate evolution tree
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags cover, evolution tree, magazine, monsters, naive art, The New Yorker on December 29, 2020 by xi'an
A is for…
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, cartoon, lockdown, pandemic, The New Yorker on December 10, 2020 by xi'an
Hitch’s tricks
Posted in Books, Travel with tags Alfred Hitchcock, Atlantic ocean, Battle of the Atlantic, classics, film noir, John Steinbeck, Lifeboat, shipwreck, steamer, The New Yorker, U-boats, war convoys, WW II on November 27, 2020 by xi'an
As I was watching the first minutes of the 1944 under-rated Lifeboat by Alfred Hitchcock (and John Steinbeck as the script writer!), a series of objects floating by the lifeboat to convey the preliminary mutual sinking of an Allied boat and a Nazi U-boat contained a cover of the New Yorker. Which while being iconic sounds like a weird inclusion, given that this is the very first issue of the magazine, in February 1925, hardly the first thing I would carry across the Atlantic at war time! Maybe being iconic was the reason to keep this issue rather than a more recent one, another mystery about the great Hitch allusions and clues interseeded throughout his films.
America in line [& the world in the balance]
Posted in Books, pictures with tags Agent Orange, democracy, Donald Trump, resolvable covering, The New Yorker, US elections 2020, US politics, vote, voters suppression on November 3, 2020 by xi'an
