According to legend, Christ appeared to the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich and showed her a little thing the size of a hazelnut that he placed in her hand. “What is it?” she asked. He answered, “It is all that is made.”
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Flopping into the future — and past
Are you ready for teraflops? Picoseconds? Wait! Before we get to tera and pico, let’s pause to remember mega and micro.
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Snow and poker
Who could have predicted this almost snowless winter? Here it is March and I still haven’t taken my snow shovel out of the basement. I checked the “Old Farmers Almanac.” I checked the newspapers. As far as I can discover, no forecaster anticipated the remarkable deficit of snow in my part of the New England.