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“Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?” -Carl Sagan
translation: here, we can get patchy i internet and attend online lessons. . around ten to 20 students come here every day, even if it s raining. we just sit here with an umbrella and a notebook and a phone so we can attend the classes. limber is one of 154 villages in the region which have no means of communication. as the pandemic hit and all schools closed, these young people found themselves struggling for an education. translation: every day, | we walk about three km just to access the internet. and even that place doesn t have great connection, - but it s all we have. the day before yesterday, - i went there and downloaded 25% of the physics lecture. it can take me up to four to five days to download a full lecture, and only then can i start it. and it s not the first time these students have felt so isolated living in the disputed region of kashmir. back in 2019, all schools were close
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I entered Stanford University in the fall of 1966, majoring in Physics and looking forward to a career in the emerging computer industry. I had read how the Stanford Provost, Frederick Emmons Terman, Jr., had pioneered the concept of a “Community of Technical Scholars,” combining campus brainpower with local industry to create what later became known as Silicon Valley.
Unfortunately, the narrative failed to mention a third partner, the U.S. Department of Defense. Stanford’s Engineering School and the university’s wholly owned subsidiary, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), were essential elements of the military industrial complex. At that time, it meant that Stanford research had gone to war in Southeast Asia.