It’s at the bottom of this Sunday NYTimes crossword commentary. Show Me the Money Monty Python!
Lawnmower man
A good topic for the summer, first the podcast link. Edwin Budding, inventor of the lawn mower (Oxford DNB) A page on which he should appear after moving from Current Podcast, along with many other biographies. Oxford DNB podcast: over 180…
Mathematica demonstration — with numbers
Searching for quite some time, and it turns out the Marginal Revolution folks (appearing as textbook authors) had what I needed. taxes-subsidies (The Invisible Hand Resource Bank) Just looking for the code to include numbers like intersection points, not the demonstration…
Wimbledon for the Brits
Upon linking here, it appears to still have Andy Murray in the “hopeful” category with Tim Henman and Virginia Wade as the last Brit to win, in 1977 … Oh, I say! Brits win Wimbledon | OUPblog … but I’m…
The City in the city
“From the grocers to goldsmiths, the Square Mile has been the center of British business for as long as we have records.” Are Things Too Cozy In London’s ‘City’ Within A City? (NPR) “It has a very unusual democracy. Because so…
Weeki Wachii Springs
“Just because we don’t live in a fantasy world doesn’t mean we don’t exist. There’s mermaids everywhere, you know.” The Last Mermaid Show (NYTimes) Two hours from Disney World