links for 2007-09-20
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“Time may prove that, evolutionarily speaking, we are simply a large and complex external cat organ, one given the duty of making itself obsolete.”
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links for 2007-09-19
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“[O]ur main problem in health policy is a huge overemphasis on medicine. … But health policy experts know that we see at best only weak aggregate relations between health and medicine.”
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“[I]f I was encrypting things I still wanted to be secret in 20 years’ time – now I would worry.”
links for 2007-09-14
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“When I hear the president cite history so casually, an alarm goes off. Those who know history best tend to be tempered by it. They rarely refer to it so sweepingly and with such complete confidence.”
links for 2007-09-05
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“Today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men. … It would be shocking if these vastly different reproductive odds for men and women failed to produce some personality differences.”
links for 2007-08-26
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“Cauchy’s theorem is very important, but is much harder to prove now than it was when Gauss invented it.”
links for 2007-08-25
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“Welcome to Web War one.”
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“To the vector belong the spoils.”
links for 2007-08-24
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It’s surprisingly difficult to figure out how many days have elapsed between two (relatively distant) dates, though the problem does admit a fairly simple algorithmic solution.
links for 2007-08-23
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After proving the Poincaré Conjecture, Grigori Perelman quit mathematics and moved in with his mother. So what’s he up to these days? Making donuts, of course.
People abusing animals
—Why didn’t the player’s union defend Michael Vick? Writer inadvertently reveals the essence of the reductionist insanity at the heart of many “slippery slope” arguments. “If we don’t defend the indefensible, then how are we going to defend the…defensible?”
–Franklin Roosevelt once said: “When You See a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.” He should have added: “I did.”
