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Single Quote: Robert B. Laughlin 27 Aug 2013 | 04:21 am
[Extracted by Lynn C. Rees] From A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down (2006) by Robert B. Laughlin: The transition to the Age of Emergence brings to an end the myth of the ...
War on Speed 26 Aug 2013 | 09:13 am
[ by Mark Safranski a.k.a. "zen"] “When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a Boche will get him eventually. The hell with that. My men don’t dig foxholes. Foxholes only s...
Sunday surprise: zen for Zen 26 Aug 2013 | 12:38 am
[ by Charles Cameron -- two short video clips for your refreshment ] . Even the magisterial Zen needs a break from time to time, so here’s my Sunday Surprise for this week — enjoy! Under Snow (2011...
DoubleQuoting Rex Brynen 25 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm
[ by Charles Cameron -- two books on war-gaming, and one highly unexpected tweet ] . PAXsims: review of Hyde, The Wargaming Compendium http://t.co/xr1jBwtNY7 @battlegames — Rex Brynen (@RexBrynen) ...
The Nation of Islam and Scientology 25 Aug 2013 | 12:37 am
[ by Charles Cameron -- at the confluence of two relatively new religious movements ] . I’ve known for a while that Minister Louis Farrakhan had expressed a positive view of L Ron Hubbard’s Scientol...
War in miniature? 24 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
[ by Charles Cameron -- as the Washington Post points out, this has indeed been a busy week for military justice ] . To take just two examples: ** I have pulled these two news-tweets from the BBC ...
Rasputin’s Apocalypse 23 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
[ by Charles Cameron -- most likely a "foolish virgin" (Matthew 25) -- I had no idea today was the day until today ] . . According to Pravda, which I believe means Truth: August 23, 2013 is the da...
Twitter mixology 23 Aug 2013 | 07:07 pm
[ by Charles Cameron -- bemused by all you young people ] . Kim Kierkegaardashian is exactly the right amount of Kardashian for me to allow into my life. It’s a twitterstream consisting entirely of ...
On the prophetic & predictive via David Degner’s Egypt 22 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
[ by Charles Cameron -- the first O of OODA, as one photographer applied it to Mubarak's destiny ] . Angel's Trumpet, Brugmansia arborea, image credit BH&G . As you all know, I am fascinated by th...
A Feast of Form III 21 Aug 2013 | 10:19 pm
[ by Charles Cameron -- exploring recursive form as a mode of pattern recognition ] . I was explaining what this series of posts is about to a friend the other day. I said it’s a compilation of twee...
