The Atlantic: “Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. … ‘They are moving the high-frequency services [...]
arXiv: “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses a rapidly changing magnetic field that is powerful enough to induce currents in neurons in the brain. Focus the field in the visual cortex and the induced eddys cause the subject to ‘see’ lights that appear as discs and lines. Move the the field within the cortex and the [...]
I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth [...]
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Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 7.243: “I hear with pleasure that our sun is moving rapidly towards the constellation Hercules: and I hope that the men on this earth will do like the sun. And we foremost, we good Europeans!”
Montaigne, Essay 30 (Of Cannibals).: “Three of these people [from the New World], not foreseeing how dear their knowledge of the corruptions of this part of the world will one day cost their happiness and repose, and that the effect of this commerce will be their ruin, as I presuppose it is in a very [...]
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World Wide Words: The St Cloud Times of Minnesota reported on 22 May: “A fire started by an old electrical chord caused smoke damage late Thursday to a mobile home in southeast St Cloud.” Sounds like an A Minor fire.
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These signs were incised into clay tablets, sometimes shaped like the page of a book, but more often like a palmleaf. Linear B was also written on clay labels and painted onto the side of pottery vessels, and it is likely that it was written with pen and ink on papyrus or skin, although no [...]
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Montaigne, Essay 24, Of Pedantry: “When the Goths overran Greece, the only thing that preserved all the libraries from the fire was, that some one possessed them with an opinion that they were to leave this kind of furniture entire to the enemy, as being most proper to divert them from the exercise of arms, [...]
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