Irish Class, September 15, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 15ú lá Mí Mheán Fómhair 2014
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Missed class because of a bad cold, but I did make some notes on the homework.
Monday Night Irish Class, September 15, 2014
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Nature, Nurture, and Noise
Even if we can get the genes right, and somehow completely control environments, there will always be noise to make life richly unpredictable.
The virtues of old technology
Physics and Philosophy
Quantum Gravity Expert Says “Philosophical Superficiality” Has Harmed Physics
I was young in the sixties and seventies, and shared the dream of my generation: changing the world and make it more just and gentle. We lost. I did not know what to do next. I found physics, where, instead, revolutions succeed.
Check the numbers
The Shadow of the Past
Thought WWI was history? In the Middle East, think again
What brought Turkey into World War I was the Escape of the German warships Goeben and Breslau , especially the Goeben, which was the most powerful ship in the Mediterranean at the start of the War. She was The Ship That Changed the World.
According to Winston Churchill the Goeben brought “more slaughter, more misery, and more ruin than has ever before been borne within the compass of a ship.”. He wrote that in 1931.
An advanced civilization hid a dangerous technology
Comet Churymov-Gerasimenko compared to Los Angeles
From Tom Chivers. This comet is currently being visited by the ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft.
Pictures behind cut
‘Help, help, I’m being repressed!’
How conservatives make a mockery of the oppression of religious minorities
Some Christians equate not getting their own way in the political sphere with brutal and unjust persecution
See also this post from a year ago.
Monday Night Irish Class, August 11, 2014
Irish Class, August 11, 2014
Rang Gaeilge, 11ú lá Mí na Lúnasa 2014
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