Throw a box into a cage full of chimpanzees, they fight for the box.
Throw a box into a cage full of bonobos, they have sex inside it.Ira Flatow
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Just a small sample of outside-the-box chitchat over breakfast this morning, with Ira Flatow and Star-Trek-deconstructionist Lawrence Krauss, not to mention Frank Wilczek.
In other news, Frank is playing Sudoku with Mathematica, Lawrence has a new beard as well as a new book (Hiding in the Mirror : The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, from Plato to String Theory and Beyond), and Betsy Devine has much more good stuff than she can blog. |
Fans of Science Friday, do you recognize this picture?
Well, if not, why not? It’s on the very first page of results if you Google-image-search for
ira flatow.
The image comes from a website describing a new book called
Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci–that sounds pretty good. Which goes to show you won’t go far wrong searching for Renaissance podcast-man Ira Flatow.