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What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But read more
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite read more
Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.
