6.28.2008
'Peter Suber more succinctly states, “I love the way we can now use free information to free information.”'
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6.19.2008
Dear Modernity:
I know that you think you know how the world works. That's why I encourage you to start messing with the brain chemistry of your children. I think that you'll find that when it goes wrong--and it will go wrong--that it will fail in ways that not even your doctors could have predicted. And I think that you'll find that when it "works" it will have actually failed in ways that are too painful to think about.
But, yes, go ahead. Brain development is something that you really want to fuck around with in utero. Great idea. Brilliant. Go for it.
Brave new world, indeed.
Yours,
Tyler
I know that you think you know how the world works. That's why I encourage you to start messing with the brain chemistry of your children. I think that you'll find that when it goes wrong--and it will go wrong--that it will fail in ways that not even your doctors could have predicted. And I think that you'll find that when it "works" it will have actually failed in ways that are too painful to think about.
But, yes, go ahead. Brain development is something that you really want to fuck around with in utero. Great idea. Brilliant. Go for it.
Brave new world, indeed.
Yours,
Tyler
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5.24.2008
Just to put things in perspective: if Hillary Clinton is elected Obama's VP for 8 years and then serves as President after that, she and Bill will have spent 24 years in the White House.
Um. No, thank you.
Um. No, thank you.
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5.03.2008
"His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired."
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4.26.2008
This new exhibit about Darwin's garden seems to be implying that Darwin himself had something like a Mendelian understanding of heredity and variation. This implies that the research that led to the Origin of Species anticipates the Modern Synthesis. I'm not sure I believe that (in fact, I am pretty sure that I don't), but it is a very interesting conjecture. It also forces one to ask the question why Darwin didn't work out the Mendelian population "genetics" if he had the plant data in his back yard.
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2.15.2008
Mr. Baltimore presented five rules for doing that:
—demand excellence.
—concentrate resources.
—create small environments.
—maintain unity of teaching and research.
—make academic freedom crucial.
—demand excellence.
—concentrate resources.
—create small environments.
—maintain unity of teaching and research.
—make academic freedom crucial.
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1.04.2008
Hearing aids are expensive. Just thought you'd like to know.
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