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Occupy Wall Street: what would Gandhi say? →
India gained independence without a war, something even the United States can’t claim. This was largely due to Gandhi’s understanding that the ends don’t justify the means, the means are the ends; the means we choose dictate the ends we get. As this has come down to us, it is popularly understood as non-violence, but it went far deeper than that. After all, if actions are...
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IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK
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Holidays In The Future
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If your drug dealer likes to cut your dope with...
hydrides:
imidazole replied to your link: Researchers from Chinese University of Hong Kong synthesize cocaine from ribose in fifteen steps
i’m not making this shit up
I appreciate the fact that they decided to freebase their product.
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It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more...
– Richard Feynman (via nathanielstuart)
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Best.Blog.Ever. →
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Starting Over
In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call...
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Every Science Article Ever
New research finds stuff about whatever
SOMEWHERE. A long-running and moderately expensive study published somewhere today has revealed uncontroversial fairly new evidence of ‘whatever’, already partly familiar to most people, had they given it any thought, which they hadn’t, because they don’t care.
Someone not particularly closely involved in the study explained that “something about...