/https://public-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/5f/cd/5fcd92d8-6dfd-4b90-b8aa-ea9c58db4072/dfcxne.jpg)
April is both National Poetry Month and Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, so a few years ago science writer Stephen Ornes dubbed it Math Poetry Month. If the words “math” and “poetry” don’t intuitively make sense to you as a pair, poet and mathematician JoAnne Growney’s blog Intersections—Poetry with Mathematics is a perfect place to […]
If Picasso and Matisse were rivals from almost the first moment each knew of the other’s existence, the contest was driven as much by those cheering from the sidelines as by their own considerable egos.It was Montmartre versus the Latin Quarter, the bande à Picasso versusthe Fauves, the dark voodoo of the Spaniard versus the […]
Imprisoned for ‘false weather forecasts’, Alexey Wangenheim sent sketches to the family he’d never see again. Source: atlasobscura