November 2009
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A genealogy
Some time in the last month, I was (finally) added to the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
For those that don’t know, the Mathematics Genealogy Project attempts to trace the mathematical lineage of all mathematicians. I don’t know if this happens in other fields, but certainly in math it’s pretty common to call another of your advisor’s former Ph.D. students your...
Point. Counterpoint.
(First via Marco Arment)
indefensible: We may have domesticated the cat, but only in the same way that the shark has domesticated the remora.
Fake Steve: Why the mainstream media is dying →
Over-simplified, but this is right on:
As for the newspapers: Faced with their own demise, fearful of losing even more advertising, newspapers have made the huge mistake of becoming ever more timid, more cautious, more in bed with the companies they cover.
It’s the exact opposite of what they should be doing. The truth is, if newspapers want to survive they should go back to doing...
Mike_FTW: Remember when Timothy McVeigh blew up Oklahoma City and 80% of the news was about him being a Christian? Yeah, me neither.
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