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A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a...
– “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart (PDF link)
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It’s hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in...
– The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub by David Foster Wallace (April 2000)
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One afternoon a student said “Roshi, I don’t really understand...
– From Broken Koans and other Zen debris by David Chess
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Mathematicians who are only mathematicians have exact minds, provided all things...
– from Pensees by Blaise Pascal, translated by W. F. Trotter
March 2008
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At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote:
Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated...
– from “Wikihistory” by Desmond Warzel, in Abyss & Apex (via MetaFilter)
February 2008
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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early