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Hitler had to learn the true nature and the power of nonviolent resistance the hard way. These were Hitler's words in 1943, admitting privately to his lieutenants the difficulties …

I always wonder why no one plays with forehands on both sides, i.e., a right-handed forehand and a left-handed forehand. I think that would be such an advantage.

Congrats on your marriage. I really enjoy your blog posts and podcasts and comments here on HN. They taught me a lot. Thank you.

I actually told my wife (who knew the correct answer - Chicago) half jokingly that perhaps it was the sportsmanship built into Watson to throw away an easy answer once in a while, …

I'm wondering what you think about Wun-Yi Shu Universe ( http://byrev.org/tech/wun-yi-shu-universe/ ). I saw a post about his paper here on HN a while ago.

Centrifugal force is also used to achieve the concept called artificial gravity, which is the reason why characters in Star Trek walk around like normal in their starships.

I grew up near a lake and always used to hearing those drowning stories. One of the guy I met told me about a similar story. He was trying to rescue a kid who was drowning and he s…

I recently read an article in which they say one can solve problems in their dreams [1]. I could swear it has happened to me at least a couple times. [1] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/i…

This is a much harder problem to solve than terrorism itself.

I can see the opposite side too. Prestige isn't worth much if nobody willing to pay for it. But the fact is there are people willing to pay for it. EDIT: I guess that's what you're…

The Lions book. http://www.amazon.com/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/15739801...

The extreme example would be Mozart and Gauss. I don't think either one could have become one another, even though both of them possessed one-in-billion IQs.

According to weather services, the storms at the region towered as high as 50,000 feet, an altitude higher than maximum ceiling that most commercial jetliners can climb.

A chip that implants inside your brain so that you can surf the web with sheer thought.

I have not read this before. But I heard this story told by a college professor Michio Kaku when I was in his astronomy 101 class. Yes, he is the author of the book, Hypersapce.( h…

> eaching is a skilled craft. A good teacher will work a classroom to keep all manner of kids involved and engaged. We've all had teachers like that. Amen to that. Not only is teac…

I would guess somebody or something need to catch the passengers from the other side of the hole; otherwise, it would fall back and forth forever like gigantic pendulums..

If you want to boggle your mind this Christmas I suggest you read GEB. It's not just Math, but Philosophy, AI, programming, logic, human mind, etc. I started reading it last year, …