"no haven for this heart / no shelter for this child in mazes lost"

[larryhammer]

Special to jamiam: On snakes, knots, graph theory, and doodling in math class, and how they are all the same (via; more here)

Special to enrobso: John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek bust out the rhymes to explain why we should "Fear the Boom and Bust" (via).

Special to oyceter: Baby aardvarks -- just as adorkably redonkulous as the mothers.

Special to rushthatspeaks: On Margaret Knight (via), inventor of the flat-bottomed folding paper bag and probably the first woman to receive a US patent (for a machine that made it).

---L.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

Flat-bottomed folding paper bags make the rockin' world go 'round.

[larryhammer]

Talk about completely inverting the original wording ...

[pseudo_tsuga.livejournal.com]

That second link is glorious especially because economics is my major.

[larryhammer]

Hee.

So what do you think of the content?

---L.

[pseudo_tsuga.livejournal.com]

Seemed accurate to me though it's not the area I'm interested in. I'm side-eyeing their decision to have Hayek go second so his is the last theory we hear but that's mostly because my department had a huge anti-Keynes bias. Keynes being recognized at the hotel desk and the quotes at the end were great.

[larryhammer]

Ah, it's a freshwater school, is it?

---L.

[pseudo_tsuga.livejournal.com]

Yes, and it's ironic because my university is actually set right on the Pacific ocean. We even have a beach right next to the dorms!