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Legalized quote stuffing.

Ending illegal wars, the death penalty and torture are even more important. Why would our government which has no problem killing, maiming and even "torturing some folks" even begi…

It's opposite is probably also true, how very common things are made to look rare and exceptional e.g. blood moons.

Fields are real because perturbation theory (Feynmann diagrams) is unable to describe solitons, vorticies, monopoles and bound states.

Quantum Field Theory is really just ordinary Quantum Mechanics. It is necessary to use fields instead of "wave equations" because the number of particles can vary when the energy o…

Hey, I knew a MUMPS programmer. Nice family guy too. Anyone would have guessed by appearances he was a car mechanic (dirty jeans, greasy hair etc.) and not a programmer. Not many M…

We will all speak Schwiitzerdüütsch or at least be able to spell like we speak it.

Whatever the official cause of cancer it will never be food additives, processed or poor quality foods, prescription drugs, air pollution, contaminants in the water supply, contami…

If Finland's great teachers were to teach in U.S. schools, they would encounter significant pressure to conform from students, parents and administrators. The ones who tow the line…

Microsoft has turned into Ma Bell. Microsoft is so large that any innovation at this point has to be minimal and highly managed or it would rock the boat, threatening the cohesiven…

In 2004 a whole layer of top CIA officials were forced out. Defense Secretary Colin Powell resigned. Dick Cheney purged the CIA of personnel who might have served as some counterba…

Interesting how Peter Thiel who froze $45,000 of assets of Facebook competitor Diaspora* has taken a special interest in bad mouthing Twitter, call them "horribly mismanaged" etc. …

I wonder, what is the ratio of exercise programs articles vs. people who actually follow them?

Minikanren is featured in a follow up to 'Seven Programming Languages in 7 Weeks' by Manning Pubs. 'Seven More Programming Languages in Seven Weeks'. I think Elixir and Julia are a…

The most fruitful definition of a real number is as a limit of a Cauchy sequence. That way is much more useful in proving theorems. Using infinitesimals is logically valid (alterna…

Well there is no way Lisi's E8 theory can fit gravity and the standard model at the same time. At first glance the group structure seems to allow it but the actual group representa…

The dilepton events are the best evidence yet IMO

Not confirmed in the sense that many in the community are denying the result, which is as it should be. Even considering many models including dust a robust result remains. I think…

There's a very subtle undertone of negativity in this article about physics. Before I get into, William Bardeen is not in the same league as 'Surfer Dude and his E8 Theory of Every…

We can only hope their new package system will contain something that allows the programmer to chose their own database. I want to use Couchbase and Elasticsearch. I can't see why …

I was a bit turned off by the term 'isomorphic javascript' when I first read it mostly because of how it is so fundamental to mathematics and we can say the term isomorphic definit…

If we take relativity at face value, the speed of light is c = 2.997 x 10^8 >>. >> the speed of light can be anything. Cosmologists talk about the universe expanding faster than li…

I hope this clarifies the appartent contradiction. Light can't help but move at any other speed than c = 2.997 x 10^8 m/s. It can't go faster, nor slower. So how does the speed of …

From experience I would have to say 'differential forms' seem to fit the bill for a unifying mathematical language as applied to geometry and physics. GA seems to me as more of a c…