the belgrade spaceship trial

(Wright Mons on Pluto, via via @LeeBillings)

Ramanujan update.

"She'd once heard it said that few people had the patience to look at a painting for the length of time it took to eat an apple..." --Michael Swanwick

Corvo's Khayyam.

"... I embraced Cusack as a true comrade only after I opened his refrigerator and found nothing but an old brass bus horn and a pair of small antlers in his freezer." --Arundhati Roy