Spirals and Turkey and Phi

Oh my!  Taking Brianna's lead, let's explore Fibonacci, via Vi Hart and her Math class doodles.  Please watch all three parts (links to parts 2 and 3 are underneath the Subscribe button, and appear in the video at the end).  Please do not say "Mr. Bogel told me to" when your Math teacher asks why you're doodling during class.  Please do doodle during class.  After you watch these videos, think and write about the relationship between patterns, design, and necessity.  We talked about this in class while wearing Einstein's glasses, you'll remember, and were led by Cathy to read and think from right to left.  Can you identify another pattern in your world that seems designed but is in fact a necessary result of circumstance and process?  Are there times when this distinction is a matter of perspective, and thus open for debate?  These are the questions I'd like you to address in your post.  Please complete your thinking and writing by Sunday, 12/1, at 6 pm.  Then read one another's work before class on Tuesday 12/3.  On Thursday 11/28, before you eat, please watch this holiday eating guide.  Your fellow celebrants will be impressed.  As they stare, awe-struck, at your plate, you might regale them with a recitation of this ode to the spiral.

The Art of Knowing

Whether your moment of knowing in Art comes from tonight's talk by Anna Schuleit Haber, from your own work, or elsewhere, please share the source of your knowledge moment, the knowledge question you've extracted, and your answer to your own question.  These are due by 9:30 Wednesday night.  Please read your classmates' work before Thursday's class.  Finally, flashing back to last post's flashback, here's a new comic version of Prufrock, courtesy of the inexhaustible BoingBoing.net.

Will Knowledge Fit in a Juicer?

Let us go then, you and I, when the knowledge is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table...Sorry.  English teacher flashback.  Our discussion, yesterday, of Bohm's and Dillard's musings on memory, time, knowledge, and creation, led to many fruitful questions about the nature of thought and originality.  As we also began to explore, these questions can operate with equal alacrity in numerous areas of knowledge.  This is the nature of the Knowledge Question (née Knowledge Issue).  For this post, please read this guide to Knowledge Issue Extraction, brought to you by the enigmatic Mr. Hoye.  Focus your reading and understanding on the descriptions and examples of progressively better and more useful Knowledge Issues.  That done, please select and read an article from either 3 Quarks Daily or Arts & Letters Daily (links to both are found on the right).  From that article, extract two Knowledge Questions (yes, we're using these terms interchangeably): one bad and one good.  In your post, explain what makes the bad KQ bad and the good KQ good.  Please also include a link to the article you select.  These are due Monday before 9:30 pm.