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Very nice

This link to an audio interview was posted previously: http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4325.html Gamow talks about meeting Bohr and his wit: He says that he was startled to see …

How sad. Because when the older ones die it seems for the first while like the rest of us have no one. No one to look up to, no one to stick up for us.

Class war is also war. There is more to psychology than self-medication for the troubled, SSRIs for the moderately dysfunctional, and anti-psychotics for the very troubled. Isn't t…

Thanks. I feel like the cold sweat realizations of "after the meeting" are all right there in this slide show. Nice to have them before the meeting...

One of Chomsky's strongest works as a non-linguist is his "American Power and the New Mandarins." (1967, 1968) In it you can find sections titled: "On the responsibility of intelle…

Agreed, but for that you need money:(

I think that for myself identity got formed by a progression of feeling-states informed by listening, writing, and learning. I can't feel proactively. I feel re actively and am for…

It kind of seems like self-righteous crowing IS the point. I there no mercy anywhere? This woman has woken up in a nightmare. It's a worst case scenario. Maybe she gambled and lost…

Another (earlier) thread on a similar theme: Ken Robinson says that the teachers who can encounter their kids and allow them to be creative can thereby allow them to have tools the…

Checks have a cost, for sure. What about Eric Reis's split-testing axiom? If in a startup the developer/coder is basically the customer of the enterprise because the cost of the ch…