The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird And to be able to maintain a friendship Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy Is enormously difficult Especially when you take into consideration What cunts they all were
Category Archives: cool stuff
postcapitalism
Monday, August 24, 2015
The end of capitalism has begun | Books | The Guardian New forms of ownership, new forms of lending, new legal contracts: a whole business subculture has emerged over the past 10 years, which the media has dubbed the “sharing economy”. Buzzwords such as the “commons” and “peer-production” are thrown around, but few have bothered […]
Gene Wolfe interview
Friday, August 15, 2014
Twelve Tomorrows Q&A with Science Fiction Author Gene Wolfe | MIT Technology Review.
what is mathematics about?
Monday, April 7, 2014
The Mathematical World What is mathematics about? We know what biology is about; it’s about living things. Or more exactly, the living aspects of living things – the motion of a cat thrown out of a window is a matter for physics, but its physiology is a topic for biology. Oceanography is about oceans; sociology […]
oscar voting
Friday, March 22, 2013
Procedures & Applications: Academy Awards Nominations and Single Transferable Vote Candidate E is known as the Condorcet winner, as it defeats all other candidates in pairwise, head-to-head elections. The Condorcet winner, if one exists, is viewed as a compromise candidate that garners support from the entire electorate, because it can defeat every other candidate head-to-head. […]
