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Einstein is Just the Beginning
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein
For those of you at home not keeping score, today marks the 127th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birth.
I’ve long held Einstein as a personal hero of mine. It helps that we share the same birthday. But more importantly I respect him for how he revolutionized science, held strong pacifist beliefs, balanced his scientific work with [...]
Why letters to the editor rock (or How I came to shed light on the Immaculate Conception)
I’ve been a subscriber to Harper’s Weekly Review for a few years now. For those who don’t know what it is, it’s a summary of sometimes interestingly juxtaposed news from the past week put out by Harper’s Magazine. I highly recommend subscribing to it.
For example, you would have read the following in the Nov. 8 [...]
Noam Chomsky: Hero, also* making the universe explode in my head
It was only yesterday that I learned that Noam Chomsky is a linguist and that he works at MIT.
I first heard of Chomsky when I was about 20. In all the time that I have known of him, I thought he was a political theorist and commentator with a think tank organization. The only [...]
Who’s my hero?
So if there were a competition going on to see who has gotten the most posts up in the first week of our starting this blog, we all know j. would be winning. And to that I say, in a sing-song voice: Who’s my (Internet) hero?
I am not feeling that particularly competitive at the moment [...]
