Cancer Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 "All things are true, even false things. How can this be? Don't blame me, man, I didn't do it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 22, 2017 Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 Deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 Dig deeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 22, 2017 Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 What could be deeper than an appeal to the Goddess of Discord? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 An appeal to Maat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 How Physics Makes Us Free http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnfarrell/2016/12/31/book-of-the-year-how-physics-makes-us-free/ Strictly speaking, my pick for best science book of the year is actually about philosophy of science. But in this case, a philosopher has found a solution to one of the great nagging problems inspired by modern science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 24, 2017 Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 If physics makes us free, why am I paying so #&@$Ωθ§Г!! much to study it? (Sounds like a pretty cool book, though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 Because freedom comes with a price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Most Popular: How Fibonacci and the golden ratio can make your garden beautiful http://ab.co/2jyelET tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 Time to update those science textbooks Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals Perpetual motion without energy. http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-just-announced-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-time-crystals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperion Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 Time to update those science textbooks Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals Perpetual motion without energy. http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-just-announced-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-time-crystals We are coming one step closer to being able to build an actual, working TARDIS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 29, 2017 Report Share Posted January 29, 2017 This sounds like a quantum thing that's not all that novel, but it will have to wait until tomorrow when I can use university library permissions to chase references. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Why not lie in wait? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 I have odd philosophical qualms about knowingly telling untruths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Not even to deans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 I don't tell untruths to them ... but I do not tell everything I know, either. Like, for instance, my admiration for the use of polonium-210 as a beverage additive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 It's admirable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Those in higher positions tend not to see it that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 31, 2017 Report Share Posted January 31, 2017 Bloody Romans -- no sense of humour! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Bookshop idea. Circular building on the outside like a tower with a spiral ramp going from the ground to the top with shelves embedded in the walls with a hand rail on the other side for safety. On the ground floor is tables & chairs with small cafe-coffee shop. Secret ingredient for coffee is truffles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Something like that (the helical arrangement of shelves) already exists in the downtown central branch of Seattle Public Library. Doesn't work as well as initially guessed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Take the Guggenheim. Remove art. Fill with books. Tadaa!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Good points both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 2, 2017 Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 He strive to be helpful, in fits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 3, 2017 Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 The helical arrangement, IME, makes it harder to browse randomly, or non-randomly in well-defined separate sections. In the helix, you are sort of compelled to walk the length of the helix between sections, and look at titles in the order in which they were shelved (in a library, this tends to be their catalog system). By contrast, on a rectangular floor even with materials shelved by subject/catalog system order, you can take a more direct path (the hypotenuse of the triangle, sort of) between two different sections. This is sort of the same reason random access memory is better done on a disk than on a tape drive. Rapid jumps between unrelated things are much slower in the constrained-to-linear system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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