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After what seems like ages of torpor my mathematics blog roared back into action this week, with ... two comics posts, me rambling a bit about a YouTube video, and the review of my readership that isn't properly speaking mathematics by itself. Well, here's what you were missing:
- Reading the Comics, June 27, 2019: Closing A Slow Month Edition
- A Neat Fake Particle Physics Simulator
- How June 2019 Treated My Mathematics Blog
- Reading the Comics, June 29, 2019: Pacing Edition
And for the story comics I get to report on a delight. What's Going On In Mary Worth? Do all Mary Worth characters fall for romance scams? April - July 2019 in review.
You know what I need here, now? More pyramids.
Looking north from on top of the first tier of the Cuicuilco Pyramid. You can see how this is a forested refuge very much in the midst of city still.
And a look down from the first tier toward the access road. I believe that's the museum in the upper right corner.
The less-friendly path leading up to the second tier of the pyramid.
View from the second tier looking down in the direction of Structure E-1. The stone arches were some kind of storage space, I think it was.
Another view of the storage space that goes toward Structure E-1, and is part of the source of that cold air which pours out from the other side.
And here is the small museum (and behind it bathroom) photographed earlier.
A view of just how broad the second tier was. Plenty of room for a large number of people to be present at once.
The slope up to the top, third, level of the pyramid.
Channel cut in the top level of the pyramid. This alley leads toward ceremonial spaces, including an altar.
The altar on top of the pyramid, and an area that lets you see how big the cut in the top was. I believe there's still archeological work going on which is part of why the area's sheltered from sun and rain.
Museum plaque that explains the altars, including a bit about the developing state of archeological knowledge about them. And the interesting bit that as of the plaque-writing only half the building was explored. I felt awfully good about myself for making it through the Spanish side of this text and only somewhat doubting myself that cinnabar was involved. I mean, when do you ever hear anyone talking about cinnabar? Exactly.
View of the altars and their inset part of the top tier, looking mostly north. Something about the blend of this very old structure and the superhighway beside got to me.
Trivia: Dutch records claim not less than 27 pounds of gunpowder was fired on the 8th of July, 1661, in salute to Governor John Winthrop for his visit to New Amsterdam. Source: The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of the Founding of New York, Russell Shorto.
Currently Reading: Space Shuttle Challenger: Ten Journeys Into The Unknown, Ben Evans.
