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Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
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Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
Noted mathematicians and historian Morris Kline once observed that the most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Yesterday, I posted a brief preliminary note inspired by and drawing upon Michael Guillen's Believing is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How
Applebaum, F., Kline, M. Thurow, Z., "Three Paths to Collapse: a methodological review and examination of sampled digital information stores and other materials recovered from the SecureMax Data Centre site," The Pacific-Northwest Consortium Review of Digital Archeology (Winter 2097), vol. 4, pp. 187 - 221. Introduction At one time, it fell to archivists to curate transient knowledge. data others might discard, just librarians sought to unearth information put aside, and it was for the historian to recall what our culture had experienced but subsequently forgotten. But given current dispersio...
Humans 24 April 2021 A fantastic science book can wow you, entertain you and change the way you think, all over the course of a few hundred pages. It can also act as a source of inspiration. We have asked 10 brilliant science writers and authors to pick their favourites, many of which were influenced earlier in their careers by their choices. Did your favourite make the list? The best popular science books as picked by science writers Jonathan Drori chooses Silent Spring by Rachel Carson This is like being a...