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by Jun8 6y ago
If you are interested in translation of poetry, Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot ) is a fantastic read.
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by Jun8 6y ago
To follow up on [4], here's Ain terries with Glenn Loury in Vox from 2016: https://www.vox.com/2016/9/20/12915036/race-criminal-justice... . Also an interview done with him a few weeks ago: https:&#
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by Jun8 6y ago
Ross Douthat's opinion piece from two days ago backs your Thought #2: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/riots-geor...
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by Jun8 7y ago
On the Physics SE a similar cluster of questions are asked about the finiteness of the speed of light e.g https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/230703/do-we-kno... , why the Principle of Least Action exists,
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by Jun8 7y ago
Years ago a good friend had this quote hung up on the wall by her desk: "ἔστι ... ὁ φίλος ἄλλος αὐτός" (A friend is another self), which I loved: you experience the world through loved ones too, and expand your consciousness (on a
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by Jun8 7y ago
If you have the freshman/junior Halliday-Resnick stuff down I'd suggest jumping right in. Susskind's Theoretical Minimum ( https://theoreticalminimum.com ) is excellent, he has a lot of videos online. I'm using
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by Jun8 7y ago
It's interesting that George and Esther Szekeres dies within an hour of each other after nearly 70 years of marriage, according to their obit ( https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-world-of-teaching-and-numb... ) Here&
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A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End(quantamagazine.org)
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How to Prepare a Go Bag(whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
3 points by Jun8 7y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
From the abstract: "This suggests that the recent dramatic fading observed at visual wavelengths is due mostly to local surface phenomena, such as changes in dust extinction or molecular opacity along the line of sight through the inne
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by Jun8 7y ago
Thanks for pointing out, link is this one: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/9857/mark-twain-his-own-devices...
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by Jun8 7y ago
Article mentions Mark Twain's visit to Pompeii brothels in passing, as if he stumbled upon it during his travels, which certainly is not the case. Twain is probably not the first name that pops to mind when erotica is mentioned but he
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What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?(edge.org)
2 points by Jun8 7y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
I’d love to start on this hobby this summer he’ll be 13). I’m not much of a HW or ham guy. What resources would you recommend to get started on our first balloon?
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by Jun8 7y ago
Right. One recent example for an independent research in math is Yitang Zhang ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitang_Zhang ) who, after completing PhD at Purdue University, worked off jobs (accountant, etc.) for 8 years,
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by Jun8 7y ago
Note that the article bends over backwards to underline the fact that Sci-Hub operates illegally. Although copyright infringement does occur, this is not true for all cases, i.e. Sci-Hub is not comparable to the Napster of old or lib-gen. T
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by Jun8 7y ago
I love Emily's Electric Oddities, she has many other interesting projects. If you liked this you may want to check out her The Lissajukebox build, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=466xZ3cexMg&t=43s
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Printing ASCII Art with an Arduino and a Vintage Printer(youtube.com)
3 points by Jun8 7y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
From Vox ( https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/12/19/21029902/o... ): "Publishers, however, are not pleased. On Wednesday, more than 125 scientific publishers of scientific journals (incl
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Trump weighs executive order on scientific research(eenews.net)
6 points by Jun8 7y ago|2 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
Some inteersting things that stood out for me: * For Sony, catalog provides 50% of the revenue and 200% of the profits of recorded music * more than 50,000 pieces of artwork are stolen each year, amounting to annual losses of around $6 to $
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Coolest things I learned in 2019(perell.com)
1 points by Jun8 7y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
This series is very interesting; but let the viewer beware: as usual with such deconstructive media it contains many assertions that are not presented in-depth and may or may not be true at a deeper level. They sound profound but further re
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“White Women Tears”–Critical Theory on Lindsay Shepherd (2017)(quillette.com)
7 points by Jun8 7y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20068381
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by Jun8 7y ago
“I don’t believe in a no-win scenario.” Probably Kirk’s best quote and a valuable life philosophy.
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by Jun8 7y ago
I was vexed but also oddly satisfied when he left off the question unanswered, leaving off with a cliffhanger at the end, such an ornate thing to do in current age of all-knowing Medium posts. I loved it, although then realized it's a
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Why Detroit residents pushed back against tree-planting(grist.org)
3 points by Jun8 7y ago|1 comments
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by Jun8 7y ago
I absolutely loved the opening “The first day of the world was born in the year 1985, in an old side of the world, and the air of the old sky of lemon and waves and berries.”
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by Jun8 7y ago
For more information about religious fatwa's against coffee use and early adoption see ( https://books.google.com/books?id=7CP7fYghBFQC&pg=PA633&lpg=... ) One interesting thing about coffee culture in Turkey is t

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