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Step by step
…medieval Christians believed that Jewish men menstruated. Though such a belief did appear around 1500, prior references to a Jewish bloody flux derived from textual traditions that were not gendered. The rupturing of Judas’s belly (Acts 1:18–19) inspired accounts of … Continue reading
Folie et déraison
Как низко всё, что метит высоко, нудил, нудил продолговатый череп. Потом гнилая хворь пролезла через анальное отверстие Фуко. (Lev Losev) The opening chapter of Foucault’s “Madness & Civilization” tells the story of medieval world in the midst of leprosy pandemics. … Continue reading
“The most abundant organic molecule is…”
http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/171307.html?thread=913707#t913707 We were debating whether a lab experiment can demonstrate abiogenesis, even in principle. In my opinion, no experiment would suffice, because such a demonstration cannot establish naturalness of a process. Without the latter, the experiment is pointless. This brought … Continue reading
Intelligent design: Beta version.
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. (Francis Crick). cont. http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/121946.html, http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/136502.html What little I know about “intelligent design,” I’ve learned from Behe’s popular books. This was disappointing and tedious reading. … Continue reading
Pontryagin’s Confessions
http://ega-math.narod.ru/LSP/book.htm (via french_man) Fascinating reading, especially the first half.
Why do we have teeth in our mouths?
The answer seems obvious: to eat — meaning biting and chewing food using our jaws. The surprising fact is that the jaws and the teeth seem to be entirely independent inventions. There are good reasons to believe that the teeth … Continue reading
Everyday nanotech
It is becoming bon ton to badmouth nanotechnology. I cannot help it: I love it. I think it is astonishing. Even more astonishing is how few of us appreciate what nanotechnology is. It is not moving one atom at a … Continue reading
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Easter-wings
LORD, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poor : With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, … Continue reading
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Why are apples red?
…In the big evolutionary picture of where the red pigment came from in the beginning, we are left to conjectural hypotheses. The seeds of the evolutionary ancestor were no doubt bird and mammal dispersed, so perhaps the red fruit was … Continue reading
Dos & donts
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Brit.): do’s and don’t’s Webster’s New World College Dictionary: do’s and don’ts Chicago Manual of Style: dos and don’ts Dos and don’t’s and dos and donts have not been suggested. I am hurrying to do that … Continue reading
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