Comments on: Presentations: Before/After

By: Math Photos! « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere

Math Photos! « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:28:42 +0000

[…] dy/dan would say that I’m doing things backwards. First we need content, and then the image should be […]

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:36:50 +0000

A picture speaks a thousand words……or so they say.

By: Benjamin Baxter

Benjamin Baxter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:30:03 +0000

Visuals are there for visual impact. Words can do that, in a pinch, but well-reasoned visuals help the most.

I’m not sure the submerged diver is well-reasoned, natch.

http://awaitingtenure.wordpress.com/

By: dan

dan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:01:31 +0000

H., thanks. TMAO, we're doorbell ditching next time. Damian, talk about getting to have your cake and eat it too. I retract my criticism. Good slide.

By: TMAO

TMAO — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:23:39 +0000

Your map goes right past my house.

By: H.

H. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:21:10 +0000

Did you switch the authors?

By: Damian

Damian — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:55:50 +0000

OK, here’s the deal with that picture: blood libels accuse a group of people of ritual cannibalism or ingesting of blood.

In the case of medieval Jews, one of the more popular myths that circulated was that Jews hunted and killed Christian children, using their blood to make Passover matzohs. Believe it or not, these myths persist well into the 21st century (in 2002, a Saudi newspaper claimed Jews used blood of gentile children to make homentashen), and were responsible for fueling large scale acts of violence against Jews across Europe – see here for a decent-sized list of blood libels against Jews.

In that context, does the use of that picture make a little more sense? I know it’s bizarre, but go ahead and look up some of the European artistic depictions of Jews from the Middle Ages – this campy fellow pales in comparison to the legitimacy that governments and religious leaders bestowed upon these stories.