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“[A]usterity-loving pundits and policy makers really are like medieval doctors who believed in treating illness by bleeding their patients, making the...”
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“Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of...”
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“[I]t is not particularly difficuly to move towards a solution the problem raised by Hume, which Kant believed he had solved. The belief in the...”
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
The sea is calm tonight,
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
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I am twenty-nine, pocket flap folded
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And I am smiling I am looking out at a world that
I significantly re-created from inside
Out of...
Posts tagged "quantum mechanics"
At the heart of the experiment is one of the weirdest, and most important, tenets of quantum mechanics: the principle that empty space is anything but. Quantum theory predicts that a vacuum is actually a writhing foam of particles flitting in and out of existence.
