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His subtitling in English of Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) was a major part of why I fell in love with that film.

The most dangerous one being when educated, middle class young men can't find wives or a middle class income. Then revolutionary forces start to brew.

Apart from getting enough sleep, any tips for how to support or enhance this maintenance process?

Which branch of science or philosophy did you apply to reach your non-squishy conclusion?

Option (a) create a 'motherly' machine which is guaranteed compassionate towards children and small furry mammals, Option (b) create a Buddha-like machine which is guaranteed benev…

Why should we need to attend universities? Apart from the inexplicit or hands-on component of technical training, learning can be done via the web. Leaving home and becoming indepe…

Some people might like the idea of all transactions being monitored and controlled. Ensuring that people behave ethically, that they don't avoid tax, etc. The problem is that eliti…

It's great that we have access to ancient and historical genomes. Because of the development of medicine we've probably accumulated a lot of random mutations in our present-day gen…

"If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. If you cannot demonstrate its excellence, it may well be suspected that you are no proper judge of it." -- William Godwin go…

Good point. However cargo-culting other surgeons subtly and fashionably and well enough to fool promotion committees into overlooking mediocre performance might take more creativit…

'Modern psychometrics' are empiricist nonsense I'm afraid.

It takes creativity and effort to look the part. It takes creativity and effort to be normal. Which means less creativity has been applied elsewhere like to something important.

Being ashamed of not being able to do X is not a good reason or motivation for learning it! Another mistake is the idea which the article rightly denies, namely that you have to be…

I agree with the rude man that accusations of rudeness are themselves rude! (Even where they are true). This reflexive property is interesting, for example: Hatred is harmful. Accu…

>when nuclear power fails, it tends to fail catastrophically. Nuclear fission , right? And let's not forget that coal mining accidents are equally catastrophic for the families of …