Before you get too excited, no, it is not a museum of hammers. When I first saw the museum in Los Angeles’ Westwood area, I thought how great to have a museum on hammers – battle hammers or maybe even Thor’s Hammers!

Alas, that was not the case, but you should visit it anyway …

Snap-Apple Night, was painted by Irish artist Daniel Maclise in 1833. Supposedly he painted this after attending a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland, in 1832. The group on the left are playing divination games. The group in the middle are playing “Snap Apple”, a game where an apple dangles from a …

I have put my slides online for a talk I was asked to give at IPAM today. The talk was titled “Scan Statistics on Enron Graphs“, work done by Carey Priebe, John Conroy, David Marchette, and Youngser Park.