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by alberto_ol 2y ago
It is not certain that the quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
The Shakespeare Unlimited podcast of the Folger Library is my favourite podcast about Shakespeare, not only for the content, but also for the perfect audio quality (not so common among podcasts). In the latest episode they talk about the re
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
Not a native English speaker. Is it correct "an walking intervention"? Should it be "a walking..."?
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
Archaic human? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
Please, don't come. There are already too many tourists. The city center has become almost unlivable in the Summer.
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
Coppola also said tha he did not want to direct the second movie of the saga, so he asked three conditions: to have no interference, a lot of money and to name the the movie the Godfather part 2. Strangely the third condition was the one wh
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
And, by coincidence,in The Godfather Part II he shot some scenes in the actual city of Trieste. The Ellis Island building is a an old fish market in Trieste.
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
For those who, like me, don't know who are Anna and Pia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Cramling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Cramling
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
My favourite is "the invention of solitude", but it is not a novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_Solitude
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
With regard to the Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote, it is likely that he never said or wrote those words. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/
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by alberto_ol 2y ago
Here some of the previous submissions, with lots of comments. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Calculus+Made+Easy
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How to talk to a person like ChatGPT(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
When I was in high schhol I won a game in a tornament because I hoped thet my opponent didn't know the rule. Otherwise it would have been a draw.
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Cervantes was buried on April 23 but he probably died on April 22. Shakespeare almost certainly knew Cervantes beacuse there is a lost play attributed to Shakespeare based on an episode in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote. Probably Ce
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'Chinese dragon-like' ancient reptile identified(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
And William Shockley with eugenics
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New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script(nature.com)
2 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Umberto Eco quoted Jorge Luis Borges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gippsland_earthworm
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The Year in Biology(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|0 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
It is not exactly an hobby, but it is what occupies most of my free time. I organize free italian language courses for the foreigner of my city.
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
I briefly scanned the article. I am not that impressed by the result. I thought that an average smart person and particularly someone with a scientific background could reach that resalt in one or two months. My experience. I played chess
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
previous submission with 79 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229836
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Ukrainian cellular and Internet still out(arstechnica.com)
23 points by alberto_ol 3y ago|2 comments
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
I can't access the article because I have failed the captcha several times. However, i found the list of the books online: https://www.yearendlists.com/2023/economist-the-best-books-o...
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
I thought that after 9/11 passengers were not allowed to visit the cockopit any more
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
One of may teacher of Calculus/Analysis (in Italy we say Analisi) used to say that in the real world there are only rational numbers. The mathematicians had to invente the Real numbers in order to perform analysis
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Previous dicussions of the service on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=12ft.io
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
Previous submissions, the first one 4 years ago with 236 comments https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fyouglish.com%2F
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by alberto_ol 3y ago
source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

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