2 days ago by Ned Colville

1. “Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.” (Hermann Hesse) 2. “The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 3. “ ...

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3 days ago by admin

My last blog post was a link to the great podcast interview Anna Farmery did around a few key concepts from Growing @ the Speed of Change. The one area she had not heard of, and especially fascinated her, was the very strange new field of quantum mechanics. I find this topic incredibly intriguing an ...

The Practical Leader - jimclemmer.com/blog · Rank: 140,257 · 4 references

9 days ago by spcoll

David and Clara Shoemaker working in an x-ray laboratory at Oregon State University, 1983. Husband and wife crystallographers David and Clara Shoemaker were, in many respects, an unlikely couple. David Shoemaker was born on May 12, 1920 in the tiny town of Kooskia, Idaho. Clara Brink was born on Jun ...

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13 days ago by Will Thomas

In my last discussion of the challenges involved in writing about the history of science in the 20th century, I noted that local narratives can be taken to be revealing of broader issues, but that such narratives can also simply reflect back some larger narrative already understood to exist. In this ...

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17 days ago by bookofgrievances

the edible attribution: sincerity this week’s book of grievances will suffer the sincere. this show will explore the association between seeing and believing, the damaging impact of the cult of the serious on society, and the assessment of the real risk in the wake of the impossibility of the sincer ...

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18 days ago by webmaster

Comets continue to be at the center of controversy concerning the early Earth and life. If you’ve been following our recent reports as of late, you know that opinions run the gamut, from ancient cometary impacts being relatively rare, to comets being crucial to life as we known it. Now, researchers ...

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26 days ago by S.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

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26 days ago by S.

Le contraire d’une vérité banale, c’est une erreur stupide. Le contraire d’une vérité profonde, c’est une autre vérité profonde.

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37 days ago by Bernd Harder

Auch in der x-ten Wiederholung sehenswert: “ The Frighteners” heute Abend bei Kabel 1. Michael J. Fox als Geisterjäger. Passt auch gut zu den sich häufenden Auftritten von echten “Ghosthuntern” in den Medien, etwa bei RTL oder in der Bild-Zeitung. Nur dass die Jungs von der Paranormal Research Group ...

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37 days ago by Oberlehrer

Folgende Anekdote habe ich vor kurzem zugesandt bekommen (leider ohne konkrete Quellenangabe). — “Wie kann man die Höhe eines Wolkenkratzers mit einem Barometer feststellen?” soll die Frage einer Physikprfung an der Universität von Kopenhagen gewesen sein. [Laut Wikipedia eine moderne Sage, aber tro ...

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