Monday, 19 August 2024

I love my doctor

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Just to be clear: I am not in love with my doctor. I don’t feel attracted to her. We are not friends. We don’t see each other a lot. I don...
Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Weierstrass meets Kovalevsky

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From Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro : Weierstrass had no more idea than his sisters of Sophia ’s age or mission. He told her after...
Thursday, 8 June 2023

I wish I had made you angry earlier

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From Missed opportunities in crystallography by Zbigniew Dauter and Mariusz Jaskolski: The only method to avoid mistakes and errors is ...
Thursday, 6 October 2022

woman, the scientist

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From The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow : We can be fairly certain there was no Neolithic equivalent of Edmund ...
Thursday, 8 September 2022

this natural forest

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From The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono : En 1933, il reçut la visite d’un garde forestier éberlué. Ce fonctionnaire lui intima...
Friday, 18 March 2022

In memoriam: A. M. Shkrob (1936 — 2007)

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Как долго помнят о тех, кто никому не известен при жизни? Что значит — никому? А. М. Шкроб, « Счастливые дни » How long do they rem...
Sunday, 6 February 2022

playing the violin is easy

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From The need for good nomenclature by Edward W. Godly: [T]he IUPAC ‘ Blue Book ’ rules are something of a patchwork quilt. It is inten...
Monday, 12 July 2021

arrivederci, fed04.17

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Se oggi la situazione è complessa, non c’è ragione di credere che invece fosse semplice nel passato. So why Italian? Sure it’s a beauti...
Thursday, 6 May 2021

ci vediamo, Italian1x

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A few years ago, I started Italian Language and Culture: Beginner by WellesleyX only to abandon it after a week or so. This year, I decid...
Friday, 16 April 2021

this is the extent of serendipity

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According to Wikipedia , Charles J. Pedersen (1904—1989) “is one of the few people to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences without having a Ph...