February 2012
4 posts
“There are bitter ironies in all of this. The panic caused a minor evacuation of...”
– A natural disaster that cost the lives of thousands of people was ignored in favour of a nuclear ‘disaster’ that never was
“Pythagoras could not have imagined the uses to which his equation would be put...”
– 17 Equations that changed the world
“Here is my list of “really stupid, frivolous academic pursuits” that...”
– Bradley Voytek, Basic science is about creating opportunities
“The root of these misconceptions is the radical underappreciation of the design...”
– Mark Changizi, ‘Humans, Version 3.0’