You’ve probably heard the line about how the Eskimos have 40 words for snow.  Or perhaps when you heard it, it was 9 or 25 or 100 ...

        The great blizzard of 2015 has struck, and while it actually hasn’t been too terrible here where we are, it’s certainly very snowy...

        In December we went to a special exhibit at the science museum about the Maya, and there I discovered that the Maya did some relie...

        I’m not one of those people who believes that “perfection is boring.”  I admire and enjoy the perfection of Escher’s carving, just...

        Here’s a fun addition to my fantasy menagerie, and something that was completely new to me.  All I know about it is what I came ac...

        As promised, I have more M.C. Escher for you today, and this time I’ve chosen some fantasy pieces.  Of course in some ways fantasy...

        Back around 1959, Isaac Asimov was invited to participate in a brainstorming group set up by MIT and the government to generate cr...

        Last week I was lucky enough to see the M.C. Escher exhibit at the Currier Museum of Art.  According to their blurb, “This Escher ...

        Today is J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday (born 1892).  We recently went to see the third installment of Peter Jackson’s “Variations on a...