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scholarly journals, all out of the public view. Voodoo science, by contrast, is usually pitched directly to ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 22 2010 - 10:16am

generalizations- to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, and then to ...

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expansion having taken all others beyond the horizon of visibility. I say our galaxy, but it will be ...

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intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 7 2009 - 8:59am

that's all I have to say on that subject." And there was much applause. Many thanks to Richard ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Apr 6 2010 - 2:10am

be grotesque (God knows why) about the subject of beer has spread a froth of frivolity over all sorts ...

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and for all I know rules of operation as well.- Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, p. 15 ...

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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 23 2009 - 6:05am

situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 25 2009 - 6:05am

In the end, we should all like [mathematical] models that wear their faults on their sleeves.- ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 1 2010 - 6:01am

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