Archive for November 14th, 2008

China’s Economic Stimulus

Diane Rehm interviewed Cambridge author Yasheng Huang yesterday, and the streaming audio is now live!
Give it a listen >>
Huang is author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, recently featured in my favorite magazine, The Economist.

Hexaflexa-what?

With the Martin Gardner books available, I’ve been throwing the word hexaflexagon around a lot. It’s part of the title, after all.
For anyone who hasn’t ever seen one, they’re cool. I came across this video of someone flexing a hexaflexagon made from a map; one of the more interesting applications I’ve seen.