There’s more than one history of facts. There’s “The History of Facts“, the doctoral-level course at Central European University. There’s the recent book A History of the Modern Fact, by Mary Poovey [pictured here], and the much older book A History of Facts, by Ebenezer Hinds. And now there’s an obituary of Fact. (HT Dan Falk)
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Obit of Jerry Lettvin (plus Leary/Lettvin video)
Janelle Lawrence’s obituary of Jerry Lettvin appears in today’s Boston Globe. Lawrence captures quite a bit of the Jerry-ness. It begins: MIT professor emeritus Jerome Lettvin [pictured here, around 1960] was best known for his work on the 1959 paper “What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain.’’ His measurements of “bug detectors’’ in frogs’ […]