I grew up in Sacramento, California and went to Sutterville Elementary School. “Sutterville” is a reference to John Augustus Sutter, pictured at the left, born Johan Suter in February 1803 in the Kingdom of Saxony,whose father came from Neuchatel, Switzerland. Young Suter moved to and went to school in Switzerland. He joined the Swiss Army and became [...]

I subscribe to Wired Magazine, but am sometimes frustrated by the nature of its content which can drift off into the nonsensical. Just when I am ready to give up on the publication, it prints something that renews my interest. The March 2010 issue has an article by Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician at the University [...]

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I grew up in Sacramento, and I read an inscription in the State Capitol Building that I subliminally internalized, “Bring me men to match my mountains.” I was born in Nevada which is the most mountainous state in the lower 48 states, measured in the number of mountain chains. My mother was born in Reno, [...]