01.24.2009 at
00:44 by
alexziller
“..We will restore Science to its rightful place, and wield Technology’s wonders..”
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Barak Obama, 44th President of United States of America.
Analyzing Obama’s inauguration speech (interactive video + transcript from NYtimes.com)
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08.17.2008 at
11:44 by
alexziller
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
K.Popper, 1973
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07.29.2008 at
14:01 by
alexziller
I start this rubric inspired by one of my favorite scientific blog: A Quantum Diaries Survivor [focused mainly on particle phyiscs, but you can find interesting discussions also beyond this specific topic]
let´s start with the legendary Richard Feynman and one of his provocative statement:
“Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
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