A Great Rhombcuboctahedron, Decorated with Circles and Hexagons

Trunc Cubocta

The images on the faces of this polyhedron were created with Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint. Projecting these images onto these faces, and then creating this rotating image, was accomplished using Stella 4d: Polyhedron Navigator— a program you can try for yourself, for free, at http://www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

Hexagons and Circles

hex

On Demagogues, and the 2014 American Midterm Elections

This Wikipedia article needs to be updated to include many winners from yesterday’s election in the USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue.

From the article: “They exploit a fundamental weakness in democracy: because ultimate power is held by the people, nothing stops the people from giving that power to someone who appeals to the lowest common denominator of a large segment of the population.”

That’s exactly what happened in yesterday’s election.