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...items for the sale on the website include a collection of four wood chairs described as “standard, but perfectly fine for sitting” (current value: $15), a third edition Introductory Quantum Mechanics textbook (current value: $70), the Charlie Sheen classic Platoon, described on the website as a “Crazy Nam movie” that “comes up in a bunch of MR classes” (current value: $2) and a $500 gift certificate to The Wrap (current value...
...sees ahead: Prediction No. 1: There's still plenty of life in the global economy. Growth in some Western countries might be struggling, but Schwartz argues that technological advances and management innovations point to rising productivity levels and a "Long Boom" ahead. Thanks to further trade integration through globalization, quantum computers up to 100 million times as powerful as today's PCs, and widespread fiber-optic broadband by 2015, he estimates that "we will probably come close to a doubling of the overall standard of living throughout the world in a generation." The globe's second-most-powerful economy...
...nature, however, to seek simple, linear, cause-and-effect stories and not think in terms of circular causation, in which effects become their own causes. Perhaps the idea of nature via nurture, like the ideas of quantum mechanics and relativity, is just too counterintuitive for human minds. The urge to see ourselves in terms of nature versus nurture, like our instinctual ability to fear snakes, may be encoded in our genes...
When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a hotshot quarterback in the NFL. At twelve, I had my sights set on quantum physics and all things subatomic. Three years later, I thought hosting a late night show would be the ultimate dream...
Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field--and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...