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Category Archives: Science

Beyond Carbon - Scientists Worry About Nitrogen’s Effects on Planet - NYTimes.com

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The weakening of biodiversity, the pollution of rivers, these are local issues that need local attention. Smog. Acid rain. Coasts. Forests. It’s all nitrogen.

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Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Coauthorship (was: Oskar Morgenstern)

Monday, August 25, 2008

All this issue began in the late forties when, at Levi-Strauss’s request,
Andre Weil wrote an appendix (pp 278-285) to Claude’s famous book ‘Les
structures elementaires de la parente’”

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Samara Valley Project Ritual

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Lupercalia

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05.05.08–Athabascan Word of the Week — Owls « Raven’s Ruff Stuff And Other Things Native

Saturday, August 16, 2008

yismo

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The Spectre of Brocken

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

This 200 foot high shadow figure lurking about the misty mountaintops goes by various names, mountain specter for instance, in China it is called Buddha’s Light

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Seed: A New State of Mind

Friday, August 8, 2008

“the dopaminergic cliché — it was the chemical explanation for sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.”

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Literary Review - Philip Davis on Shakespeare and Neurology

Saturday, August 2, 2008

“Shakespeare created dramatic effects by implicitly taking advantage of the relative independence - at the neural level - of semantics and syntax in sentence comprehension”

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Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Cycles within cycles

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Transient stability

Sunday, July 27, 2008
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How the Mind Works: Revelations - The New York Review of Books

Saturday, July 26, 2008

“To learn is to eliminate”

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