Butterfly - The Secret Life of Chaos

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.

only a few more odds and ends......

.....Then on to the rock wall....

I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem....

...will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.

Something to think about.....

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

~Ray Bradbury

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it......

Utah's reclusive cabin burglar turns up on video

Law enforcement officials have obtained surveillance video for the first time of a mountain man who has been breaking into dozens of cabins, stealing guns and supplies, across southern Utah.

In this undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office in January, a man is seen walking past a cabin in the remote southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the man in the photo, captured by a motion-triggered surveillance camera sometime in December, is a suspect responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries over the past five years.

This undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office shows , a remote camp littered with supplies and trash in the southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the camp was left behind by a suspect in more than two dozen burglaries of mountain cabins over an area of roughly 1,000 square miles for the past five years.

And it begins......

Arizona Ski-Resort Will Pump Sewage Snow on Sacred Mountain

Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He has chained himself to excavators; he has faced down bulldozers. For 10 years, the soft-spoken activist has fought a ski resort’s expansion plans in the San Francisco Peaks that include clear-cutting 74 acres of forest and piping treated sewage effluent onto a mountain to make snow. But he appears to be losing the battle.

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I do not like quantum mechanics, and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

PSYCHOPATHIC GARBAGE in UNIFORM

psychopath psy·cho·path (sī'kə-pāth') n. A person with an antisocial personality disorder, especially one manifested in perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior. Also called: sociopath a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterized by a tendency to commit antisocial and sometimes violent acts and a failure to feel guilt for such acts.

The Cult of the Dead Fish