The world’s largest ever exhibit of Escher’s works is on display, right now, at the Boca Raton Musuem of Art If you can, this is a must see event! We talk with the collector, Rock J. Walker about his fascination with this amazing work.
And of course we answer last week’s puzzle, and hear from listeners!
A bit lazy, but we’re pretty far behind. Herewith, are
GP: Switcheroo!
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GR: VIth Anniversary Special
GS: I Met a Man
A woodworker has a disc of wood, perfectly round, an inch thick and ten inches in diameter. He wants to make it a wheel and so prepares to drill a one inch hole in the exact center. Sadly, an ill-timed catastrophic sneeze causes him to drill the hole two inches off-center. Undaunted, he pulls out his mathematically perfect laser saw (which can make perfect, zero-width cuts in wood) and his mathematically perfect glue (which can glue surfaces together with zero distance between them). He cuts a piece of the wheel away, glues it back in a different position, and he has exactly the wheel he wanted to begin with. How does he accomplish this?
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