Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
The Secret Of The Soldiers Who Didn’t Shoot | AMERICAN HERITAGE
It was in the sixth chapter of Men Against Fire that Marshall made his assertions about what he called the ratio of fire. He was quite explicit: "a commander of infantry will be well advised to believe that when he engages the enemy not more than one quarter of his men will ever strike a real blow. …"
"The 25 percent estimate stands even for well-trained and campaign-seasoned troops. I mean that 75 per cent will not fire or will not persist in firing against the enemy and his works. These men may face danger but they will not fight."
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Sunday, March 04, 2018
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HuffPost: Margarita Recipe Taste Test: Are Expensive Tequilas & Orange Liqueurs Worth The Price?
Margarita Recipe Taste Test: Are Expensive Tequilas & Orange Liqueurs Worth The Price?
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree
Actually, bitcoin is a nice reward too; it's like crystalized machine sweat!
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Against guilty pleasures: Adorno on the crimes of pop culture | Aeon Essays
He would later write of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which premiered in 1913, that it represented an 'uproar of culture against its own essence as culture' which is 'enjoyed as an enticement precisely in its opposition to civilisation'. The ballet's 'flirtation with barbarism' was not merely musical – it reflected social facts, and indeed showed evidence of a kind of cultural trend towards regression, and of the domination of the individual by the social whole.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
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Ars Technica: New studies zero in on roots of depression and why ketamine reverses it
New studies zero in on roots of depression and why ketamine reverses it
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Understanding the biology may help us develop more targeted therapies. Read the full story
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Friday, February 16, 2018
Tesla impact prob
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.04718.pdf
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.
Europeans had school shootings, too. Then they did something about it.
From Politics, a Flipboard magazine by bradahill22
BERLIN — Contrary to what you may sometimes hear, school shootings are not unique to the United States. Germany, for instance,…
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018
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Germans as free kids
the German approach, focused on childhood independence, is more humane and respectful than the prevailing American bourgeois ethos of sequestered play dates and recess-bereft schooldays
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
6 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read ASAP - Riveted
6 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read ASAP - Riveted
From Literature , a Flipboard magazine by de SanDoVal
Not too long ago, if someone asked me if I liked sci-fi novels my immediate answer would be no. For some reason, I never wanted to pick up a book set in…
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Grand Canyon North Rim: Hotels, camping, hiking and scenic drives
Grand Canyon North Rim: Hotels, camping, hiking and scenic drives
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Monday, February 05, 2018
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Interesting quote from "Robicheaux: A Novel"
"The reinvention of this bunch as Elizabethan men of honor probably would have made Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe sick."
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The Political Relevance of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” | IndieWire
That's how I know he can be beaten. Because he's a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt."
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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Tuesday, January 09, 2018
Interesting quote from "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"
"So yes, it seems that the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function and the eigenvalues of random Hermitian matrices are related in some way. This raises a rather large question, a question that has been hanging in the air ever since that encounter in Fuld Hall in 1972. The non-trivial zeros of Riemann's zeta function arise from inquiries into the distribution of prime numbers. The eigenvalues of a random Hermitian matrix arise from inquiries into the behavior of systems of subatomic particles under the laws of quantum mechanics. What on earth does the distribution of prime numbers have to do with the behavior of subatomic particles?"
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Interesting quote from "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"
"Those last six words—in German, Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen—are the most famous that Hilbert ever spoke, and among the most famous in the history of science."
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Sunday, January 07, 2018
Interesting quote from "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"
"This distinction between numbers for counting and numbers for measuring reaches deep into human habits of thought and speech. It"
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