[jonpeda]

The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice.

Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a priori obvious? Maybe the bits about migration.

I don't see the "art and science" in this analysis, I see "stamp collecting" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford)

[programnature]

The progression of interests over time was non-obvious to me. For instance the explosion of interest in travel in the 20s, and the temporary dip in interests like philosophical quotes also in the 20s.

Theres a lot of stuff in the post, I wouldn't dismiss it because its TL;DR

[carlob]

So Rutherford says: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" and then wins the Nobel prize for…

You got that right: chemistry!

[rdouble]

Chemistry is applied physics, after all.

[carlob]

I'd rather imagine him fuming in one corner: "stupid Nobel committee… they should have kept their crappy stamp collecting prize…"

[Create]

"Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been ." Theodore von Kármán

[Create]

The LHC was built as a higgs factory. Or a stamp printing press, if you prefer.

btw Mathematica would be little more than a DOE-MACSYMA/Maxima ripoff, not to mention the delusional "NKS" including its author.