David Blatner

David Blatner

Woodinville, Washington, United States
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  • Museletter the 119th

    "What's going to happen to my website after I die?" I still remember sitting in a little neighborhood cafe in 1996…

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  • Museletter the 118th

    Perhaps you mistake me for a merely reasonable person. Oh, I am far more than that! In fact, I am a Fundamentalist…

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  • Museletter the 117th

    One of the best things I got in life, for which I'm forever grateful, is multiple dads. Of course there's just one…

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  • Museletter the 116th

    You don't hear the word "toggle" much anymore — like, "toggle that light switch" or "toggle between those two windows…

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  • Museletter the 115th

    It sounds silly, but one of the most important forces in our universe is a tendency toward clumpiness — the fact that…

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  • Museletter the 114th

    You know how some people are annoying know-it-alls? I have a different problem: I'm a question-it-all. I love…

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  • Museletter the 113th

    When our expectations are shattered, or our norms upended, we call it "disruptive." I think we can all agree that we…

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  • Museletter the 112th

    I'm reading about business leaders who insist that AI can do graphic design just as well as humans—and so they fire the…

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  • Museletter the 111th

    The funny thing about having a psychiatrist for a dad is that you often have no idea what he's talking about at first……

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  • Museletter the 110th

    In The Matrix, the Wachowskis imagined a world where a highly advanced AI would enslave humans for what it could not…

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    WOODINVILLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL

    - 3 years 2 months

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    Board of Trustees for Woodinville Montessori School, an accredited preK-thru-12th school.

Publications

  • Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity

    Bloomsbury/Walker Books

    How can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years? Spectrums tackles these questions by exploring realms far outside our everyday experience that boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden…

    How can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years? Spectrums tackles these questions by exploring realms far outside our everyday experience that boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With easy-to-read, engaging, and insightful observations, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden realities, Spectrums is full of hundreds of facts, quotes, illustrations, and anectodes that lead to a greater appreciation of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live.

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  • The Joy of Pi

    Walker Books/Bloomsbury

    No number has captured the attention and imagination of number fanatics and nerds throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter--a.k.a. pi. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, The Joy of Pi brings us the story of pi and humankind's fascination with it, from Archimedes to da Vinci to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers, who holed up in their Manhattan apartment with a homemade supercomputer churning out digits of pi into the…

    No number has captured the attention and imagination of number fanatics and nerds throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter--a.k.a. pi. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, The Joy of Pi brings us the story of pi and humankind's fascination with it, from Archimedes to da Vinci to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers, who holed up in their Manhattan apartment with a homemade supercomputer churning out digits of pi into the billions.

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