So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.

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Sufficiently advanced coping mechanisms are indistinguishable from adulthood.

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april II.

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An excerpt from Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants by John Drury Clark. It seemed relatable, many years later. The whole book can be found here, and is well worth reading.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett, Diggers

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How to be perfectly unhappy - The Oatmeal

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Edgy

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How even small individual biases lead to collective segregation. And yet how even the tiniest positive un-biasing effort can make a huge difference . . .

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David Bowie died today at the age of 69 :(

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The Space Doctor’s Big Idea - The New Yorker

Einstein’s theory of general relativity, explained using only the thousand most common words in English.

Relativity, both Special and General, explained using only the thousand ten hundred most common words . . .

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Anybody out there? Massive radio wave project to scan far regions for alien life

Breakthrough Listen, funded by Yuri Milner, will allow telescopes to eavesdrop on planets that orbit the million stars closest to Earth and 100 nearest galaxies

SETI just got a big boost!

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Jim Al-Khalili has written a great paper on the knowledge and study of optics in the medieval Islamic world, much of which modern teaching seems wont to overlook.

It’s pretty accessible; the mathematical details can be skipped without losing too much.

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Ray Collins, Seascapes.

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Terry Pratchett

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Law professor Roger Fisher suggested that nuclear launch codes be implanted in a volunteer’s heart. The president would be required to personally take the life of an innocent person before taking the lives of hundreds of millions. (Source)

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