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- Love: An Almost Scientific Investigation
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Love: An Almost Scientific Investigation What Is Love? If I could answer that long-standing question in precise scientific terms with error bars I would be sure to get a Nobel prize and lynched. ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 29 2013 - 8:49pm
- Your Move
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Last weekend I participated in a chess tournament in Mogliano. This year the event was not as strong a tournament as this used to be- only 24 players, two of them international masters. Anyway there was room for fun, since the time control was of 90 minut ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 2 2013 - 6:36am
- Music is Power
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In light of some recent posts that have introduced an increasingly diverse set of viewpoint through music links, I thought it would be interesting to see what kind of music surfaces. So, I don't have any specific criteria, except that whatever song y ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 3 2013 - 9:52pm
- Another Media Rant
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With the recent rescue of three young women in Cleveland, held for over a decade by a kidnapper, we are now subject to the useless speculations of the media. Why the news media feels compelled to ask inane questions and foment greater misunderstandings isn ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 8 2013 - 8:02pm
- Hopefully You Will Get Smarter
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Hopefully You Will Get Smarter Despite the wide use of sentences beginning with a word ending in-ly and despite the acceptance of such usage by people who know how language is used in the real world: despite these facts there are still some people who th ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - May 10 2013 - 10:25am
- A Tribute To Richard Feynman: Feynman Point Pilish Poems 2013
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Richard Feynman was born on 11 May 1918. Today would have been his 95th birthday. This isn’t a paean to a physicist – it could be, but I’m sure millions of words have been published on this – but a game for wordsmiths and numberphiles. Within the highly re ...
Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Oct 27 2013 - 7:36am
- So You Want To Dance On The Ceiling?
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Fred Astaire is, of course, beyond compare. As a dancer, he had already set the bar for everyone and then he set it a lot higher when he appeared in 1951's "Royal Wedding" at age 52. Echoing a Voodoo shaman, he animated what most of us regar ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 20 2013 - 5:56pm
- Compassion in Adversity
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Compassion in Adversity It is not our petty squabbles that define what it is to be human: it is our compassion in the hour of adversity. The Oklahoma tornado demonstrates this. "There are empty spaces where there used to be living rooms, and bedroom ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 21 2013 - 12:00pm
- For my readers, I am finishing my thesis.
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My readers may wonder what I have been doing. The answer is I have been working on my thesis is the area of astrophysics. With much help from my advisor Dr. Anuj P. Sarma I am finally finishing. ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 24 2013 - 7:52am
- Architectural Folly And Trumpery
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Architectural Folly And Trumpery In 1984 Prince Charles provoked controversy when he called a proposed extension to London's National Gallery a "monstrous carbuncle". What is good and what is bad about architecture? Science and engineering ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 31 2013 - 8:41pm
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