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I did geology way back when in university. Mostly computer stuff since, for better or worse. Geology kind of requires that you know how to drive… the last time I was behind a wheel, probably the summer of 1997, the geology van was rolling uncontrolled back down a hill as I tried to find the "stop" pedal. The other students did not before that point believe my claim that I did not know how to drive. Still don't.
It's here because I don't have a better place to put it.
> After the vote, a legislator turned to Waldo, who was also the president of the Indiana Academy of Science, and offered to introduce him to the man behind the bill. The professor declined. His reasoning? “I’m already acquainted with as many crazy people as I care to know.”
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> Edwin Goodwin claimed to have conquered the impossible circle and square challenge, but it required “changing” the value of pi. He claimed God had done just that in March of 1888, directly revealing to him its true value – 3.2 – which made solving the problem possible.
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> Does it come as any surprise that the Indiana House passed this abomination of a bill unanimously (67 to 0) and did so proudly?
"How Grammar Changes Perception" in Scientific American 329, 4, 48-59 (November 2023)
Aceves, P., Evans, J.A. Human languages with greater information density have higher communication speed but lower conversation breadth. Nat Hum Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01815-w
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