That We Ought Not to Borrow (Plutarch) | Part A’
But we, ashamed to be independent, enslave ourselves by mortgages and notes, when we ought to limit and restrict ourselves to actual necessities...
08 December, 2017
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Horace’s Odes
Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years, Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers. Better far to...
05 December, 2017
The immortal jellyfish
The jellyfish of the kind Turritopsis nutricula seems to be the only animal that has discovered the secret of eternal youth.This jellyfish has...
04 December, 2017
The Drunkard’s Walk (LEONARD MLODINOW) | Part D ‘
If it is easy to fall victim to expectations, it is also easy to exploit them. That is why struggling people in Hollywood...
02 December, 2017
The Drunkard’s Walk (LEONARD MLODINOW) | Part C’
The actor’s name is Bruce Willis, and while he was in Los Angeles, an agent suggested he go on a few television auditions....
30 November, 2017
The Drunkard’s Walk (LEONARD MLODINOW) | Part B ‘
People systematically fail to see the role of chance in the success of ventures and in the success of people. We afford automatic respect...
28 November, 2017
The Drunkard’s Walk (LEONARD MLODINOW) | Part A’
In 1814, near the height of the great successes of Newtonian physics, Pierre-Simon de Laplace wrote: If an intelligence, at a given instant, knew...
27 November, 2017
1905, Einstein’s ‘miracle year’ (JOHN HIGGS) | Part B’
Relativity showed that we lived in a stranger, more complex universe where space and time were no longer fixed, but could be stretched...
24 November, 2017
1905, Einstein’s ‘miracle year’ (JOHN HIGGS) | Part A’
If we had to choose one town as the birthplace of the twentieth century then our prime contender must be Zurich, an ancient...
23 November, 2017
The laws of truth and half of truth. | Part B’ (LEONARD MLODINOW)
THE ROMANS generally scorned mathematics, at least the mathematics of the Greeks. In the words of the Roman statesman Cicero, who lived from...
16 November, 2017
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