Swany’s Whey

Not Even Wrong: “They claim a 90% confidence level exclusion of 50 GeV WIMPs with a spin-independent elastic cross-section above 3 x 1044 cm-2, which one can compare with the recent CDMS limit of 3.8 x 1044 cm-2 at similar mass (70 GeV).”

Lord Buckley, The Naz: ”Now look at all you cats and kitties out there whippin’ and wailin’ and jumpin’ up and down and suckin’ up all that juice and pattin’ each other on the back and hippin’ each other who the greatest cat in the world is: Mr. Malenkov, Mr. Talenkov, Mr. Eisenhower, Mr. Wozenweezer, [...]

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 6.205: “The dangers that beset the evolution of the philosopher are, in fact, so manifold nowadays, that one might doubt whether this fruit could still come to maturity. The extent and towering structure of the sciences have increased enormously, and therewith also the probability that the philosopher will grow tired [...]

Montaigne, Essay 31, That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances: “And who would take upon him to give a reason that Arius and his Pope Leo, the principal heads of the Arian heresy, should die, at several times, of so like and strange deaths (for being withdrawn from the disputation by [...]