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| 45a836c | In Cantor's mind there were an infinite number of infinities-the transfinite numbers-each nested in the other. Aleph 0 is smaller than Aleph 1, which is smaller than Aleph 2, which is smaller than Aleph 3, and so forth. At the top of the chain sits the ultimate infinity that engulfs all other infinities: God, the infinity that defies all comprehension. | Charles Seife | ||
| fa3e6b7 | In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero. | Charles Seife | ||
| 1c67c42 | Christianity initially rejected zero, but trade would soon demand it. The man who reintroduced zero to the West was Leonardo of Pisa. The son of an Italian trader, he traveled to northern Africa. There the young man-better known as Fibonacci-learned Mathematics from the Muslims and soon became a good mathematician in his own right. | Charles Seife | ||
| 1dd8812 | Though the Casimir force-a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all-seems like science fiction, it exists. It is a tiny force and very difficult to measure, but in 1995 the physicist Steven Lamoreaux measured the Casimir effect directly. By putting two gold-covered plates on a sensitive twist-measuring device, he determined how much force it took to counteract the Casimir force between them. The answer-about the weight of one sli.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 6a2b241 | Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two theories to clash. A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory. The big bang, the most puzzling event in the history of the universe, is a zero in both theories. The universe came from nothing-and both theories break do.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 4047c33 | In 1933, the Indian Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar realized that the Pauli exclusion principle had only a limited ability to fight against the squeeze of gravity. As pressure in the star increases, the Pauli exclusion principle states that ekectrons inside must move faster and faster to avoid one another. But there's a speed limit: electrons cannot move faster than the speed of light, so if you put enough pressure on a lump of matter, electrons.. | Charles Seife | ||
| c76234c | CAPTURE CHARLES SEIFE Professor of journalism, NYU; former staff writer, Science; author, Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception | John Brockman | ||
| f743e81 | Further calculations showed that when collapsing stars are a little more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit, the pressure of the resulting neutrons-similar to the pressure of electrons-can stave off collapse for a little while; this is what happens in a neutron star. At this point, the star is so dense that every teaspoon weighs hundreds of millions of tons. There is a limit, though, to even the pressure that neutrons can bear. Some astro.. | Charles Seife | ||
| ca8b05d | The key to a black hole's strange properties is the way it curves space-time. A black hole takes up no space at all, but it still has mass. Since the black hole has mass, it causes space-time to curve. Normally, this would not cause a problem. As you approach a heavy star, the curvature gets greater and greater, but once you have passed the outer edge of the star itself, the curvature decreases again, bottoming out at the center of the star.. | Charles Seife | ||
| 6e25bd0 | In "Is Drug Research Trustworthy?" Charles Seife ferrets out doctors' financial ties to pharma companies; in "Studying Drugs in All the Wrong People," Gabriella Rosen breaks down why drug trials for psychiatric medications might be doing more harm than good to the people that need these" -- | Scientific American | ||
| cc8f42e | Nick." "What? Say yes." Those huge dark eyes willed me to give in. That voice, low and sweet. "I want to," I hedged. "But--" "I'll cook for you." I groaned. Nick's cooking made my clothes fall off. "You bastard. You know how I feel about your cooking. This is so unfair." | Melanie Harlow | ||
| 92d078e | A chef wields dozens of tools, from spatulas to potato scrubbing gloves. Every once in a while, he'll need the pastry brush, but every day he'll use a chef's knife, a frying pan, salt, and a stove. Like a chef, a motivation hacker has a core set of tools. I'll introduce these in Chapters 3 and 4: success spirals, precommitment, and burnt ships. Sometimes you can reach into your motivation pantry (Chapter 12) and pull out some timeboxing, bu.. | Nick Winter | ||
| bc17132 | But every once in a great while, the pull of her heritage would hit her, and Grand-mere would cook something real. I could never figure out what it was that triggered her, but I would come home from school to a glorious aroma. An Apfel-strudel, with paper-thin pastry wrapped around chunks of apples and nuts and raisins. The thick smoked pork chops called Kasseler ribs, braised in apple cider and served with caraway-laced sauerkraut. A rich .. | cooking german grand-mere hoppel-poppel hot-dogs ingredients onions potatoes | Stacey Ballis | |
| 4d46901 | Mirror matter is, first and foremost, matter. ...[A]ll mirror matter is still matter. | Antimatter | ||
| 3089b45 | Let's avoid those unnecessary antibiotics. Let's not feed the antimicrobial-resistance demon. | Antimicrobial resistance | ||
| 51d476f | Dios y la gente se solidarizan con las victimas. Pero no con cualquier victima, sino con las victimas que se victimizan con exito. Mi ex mujer, por ejemplo. Cuando nos divorciamos, la criolla se volvio poeta y victima; la profeta de las victimas divorciadas. Ella acaba de publicar un librito de poemas en prosa muy rencorosos, autogestionados y trilingues, en la editorial imaginaria de su mentora, una poeta gringa que dirige un taller de poe.. | novela | Valeria Luiselli | |
| 401955f | God knows I wasn't ready to actually do any healing, but I was ready to write about it. Funny how that works. Funny how we come at things conceptually first, before life pushes us to experience them in real time. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 9e19898 | You okay?" she asked. "Wild dreams." "Yah, me too. We bring up everything in each other." "How do you mean?" "I mean: the brighter the love, the darker the" | Jeff Brown | ||
| 7589506 | But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People | Jeff Chang | ||
| c35fc87 | Through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. | Antinomianism | ||
| 8c1774f | There were giants in the earth in those days. | Antiquity | ||
| ebf0309 | The more time we spent together, the holier the world became. | Jeff Brown | ||
| a4bd27f | How do we hold this safe, Lowen?" Sarah wondered aloud. The question struck me. "What do you mean?" I inquired tentatively. "Just being with you is enough. I feel so close to you already. Maybe if we keep it simple, we will avoid the upsets." | Jeff Brown | ||
| ff40683 | n fy dkhln shyy'an m l sm lh, wdhlk lshy hw m nHn `lyh | José Saramago | ||
| 349368c | The First Days The | Jeff Brown | ||
| 0bb51d9 | The Bank Robbers Mr | Jeff Brown | ||
| 1a77898 | Just because we are females doesn't mean we | Jeff Brown | ||
| fa90abf | If you don't know where you're going, you won't find a road to take you there. | Jeff Brown | ||
| cde8c42 | Bananas! Here! Blah, blah! Whatever! | Jeff Brown | ||
| 9660931 | front of a pretty red-roofed house. All about the square were | Jeff Brown | ||
| da6e28e | I suppose that words, timely and arranged in the right order, produce an afterglow. When you read words like that in a book, beautiful words, a powerful but fleeting emotion ensues. And you also know that soon, it'll all be gone: the concept you just grasped and the emotion it produced. Then comes a need to possess that strange, ephemeral afterglow, and to hold on to that emotion. So you reread, underline, and perhaps even memorize and tran.. | words | Valeria Luiselli | |
| b54f6de | The ancient and honorable. | Antiquity | ||
| a9b99d7 | Remove not the ancient landmark. | Antiquity | ||
| b7d1e5e | Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states, "[A]lthough the total energy in the cosmos remains constant, the amount of energy available to do useful work is always getting smaller." 70 The second law of thermodynamics assumes that the universe is a closed system because there is nothing outside of it. The amount of useful energy is decreasing, therefore there must have been a time when the energy clock began ticki.. | Jeff Myers | ||
| b64ca31 | about the tree. | Jeff Brown | ||
| f2f53db | sensed that I had just penned a reflection of my true destiny: perpetual singlehood. There wasn't going to be another beloved. My path lay elsewhere. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 13e3c09 | the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow, | Jeff VanderMeer | ||
| 32d2181 | Why do we turn against ourselves when we most need to give ourselves comfort? | Jeff Brown | ||
| 595e113 | The petty details fell away, the essentials emerged. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 1fb4c19 | French Fried Green Beans Finger food to go with a steak or burger, or just by themselves for the fun of it! Ingredients: 1 pound of fresh green beans 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns or rose peppercorns 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning mix 1 egg white Pre-heat a deep fat fryer to 240oF (hot) -preferably filled with high oleic safflower oil Rinse green beans, trim, and pat dry on a t.. | Jeff S. Volek | ||
| f1f2564 | the disguise. Back in the main hall, Mr. Dart helped Stanley climb up into the empty picture frame. Stanley was able to stay in place because Mr. Dart had cleverly put four small spikes in the wall, one for each hand and foot. The frame was a perfect fit. Against the wall, Stanley looked just like a picture. "Except for one thing," Mr. Dart said. "Shepherdesses are supposed to look happy. They smile at their sheep and at the sky. You look f.. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 1196e8b | We have a natural tendency to assume that | Jeff Brown | ||
| 0cf9715 | Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time. | Brad Stone | ||
| a305f56 | Stanley | Jeff Brown |