March 2012
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February 2012
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you are a problem
“To the rocket scientist, you are a problem. You are the most irritating piece of machinery he or she will ever have to deal with. You and your fluctuating metabolism, your puny memory, your frame that comes in a million different configurations. You are unpredictable. You’re inconstant. You take weeks to fix. The engineer must worry about the water and oxygen and food you’ll need in space,...
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Cormac McCarthy Is Correct
Quantum Man, a biography of physicist Richard Feynman written by Lawrence M. Krauss, was first published in hardcover in March 2011. It comes out next month in paperback, and as the back of the book makes clear, it now has edits from [Cormac] McCarthy himself. According to Krauss, McCarthy liked the book so much he volunteered to work on it. In addition to reworking certain passages, McCarthy...
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“Carlos Lehder hero-worshipped Hitler. He talked about this openly. I don’t care...”
– Jon Roberts, American Desperado
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