Until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold
According to a popular online bookseller’s order history, I purchased The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens on January 10, 2007, just over a semester into my graduate studies, soon to discover how the...
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The Tam Tramp
On April 19, David and I took off on the Tam Tramp, a 50-mile trail run from the Golden Gate Bridge to Limantour Beach via Mount Tamalpais. The Tam Tramp route. This was a route inspired by location....
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The week before spring term starts, Reed College hosts one of its most distinguishing events, Paideia. Faculty, students, and alumni give mini-courses and workshops on topics they know or care about...
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The best burrito in Oregon
Oregon is renowned for many things: the soaring Cascade mountains whose glaciers feed our streams and rivers; lush forests hosting woodland creatures and mycological delights; the Columbia River Gorge...
View ArticleWhen something is nothing
I’d like to tell you when something is nothing, where “something” refers to the bigraded homotopy sheaves of the motivic sphere spectrum, “nothing” means that this sheaf is 0, and “when” means a...
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