Killtown's Last updated: 07/28/2008 The Reagan Shooting Conspiracy "Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting" -Associated Press (March 31, 1981) Was it just a bizarre coincidence that one of the sons of then Vice President George Bush Sr. had dinner plans with the brother of...
Imagining The 10th Dimension Are we missing a dimension of time? The Telegraph 10/10/2007 Could "hypertime" help develop a theory of everything? Roger Highfield reports A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar...
I Nizar Qabbani was a Syrian poet born in 1923, and died in 1998. When he was 15 his sister, then 25, committed suicide because she could not marry the man she loved. Hence his famous saying: "Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free." His second wife was killed in a...
Lecture #2 “Symbols” INTRODUCTION It would be foolish to study the anthropology of religion without devoting a class to the subject of symbols. They are central to the conventional practice of religion, but perhaps in ways we haven’t necessarily thought about. One of the ways that symbols work...
Apparently, like millions of other Americans, you spend an inordinate amount of time getting your information about the world in the form of one-sided opinion delivered by marginally educated conservative entertainers who pose as journalists. These hucksters fill the media with their jaundiced,...
FROM A FED-UP, PISSED-OFF, EX-LEFT-WING-RADICAL-TURNED-PROGRESSIVE-MODERATE WHO IS SICK OF CEDING AMERICA TO THE RIGHT As a one-time college "radical", I used to think moderation was a cop out. I thought it meant wimpy passions and wishy-washy, non-committal ideas. I was wrong. Sure, it can be about...
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 >> Elmoactually speaks as his mouth opens and closes just like the real muppet, Elmo, from Sesame Street.He waves his arms, sits and stands, even crosses his legs.Tells stories and...
Okay, so I haven't written anything substantial here in awhile. Boo hoo. I was assigned to write a piece of fiction for a class I am taking, and honestly, I don't much like it. I use Mark Twain's philosophy of writing uncontrollable characters into wells. Except, this time, with no desire or time...
100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library May 14, 2008 Written by: Jason Lankow, Ross Crooks, Joshua Ritchie, and Brett McKay Photo by the nonist There are the books you read, and then there are the books that change your life. We can all look back on the books that have shaped our...
Some things sloshing around in my head after the International AIDS Conference. Some form of this article will be in the ACTG CAB newsletter later in September. I'm kinda scared to say "come back soon! There will be more!", but it should be true. Operative word is "soon". Anyway, The XVII...
Crucial reporting by Glen Greenwald... As the police attacks on protesters in Minnesota continue -- see this video of the police swarming a bus transporting members of Earth Justice, seizing the bus and leaving the group members stranded on the side of the highway -- it appears increasingly clear...
Chapter 38 Satoshi – that was the title. Simple and clear – that was easily understood. But why call it Satoshi if there wasn’t a person in the painting? It was just a baseball cap – a very silly one with flowers all over that I wore when I was in the neighbourhood near my house. It was a...
29.08.08 It was Savs orientation day at AUD. Abbas, Jam and I were hanging out with her. A man comes and calls for all AUD freshmen to follow him. We ask Sav if we could come too. She says no way. We wait untill she leaves. Then Abbas grabs our hands and drags us to join the crowd moving toward the...
Recently, I’ve been trying out an exercise with my students in my writing classes and workshops. I ask them to make three lists involving memorable experiences of creative play. The first has to do with experiences in childhood with play. The second asks them to list things they do presently they...
Just Ref from hkgolden forum So, You Want to be a Cryptographer One of the most frequent questions I receive via email is: "How can I become a cryptographer?" This essay is my attempt to answer the question. My answer divides into four parts -- for the high-school student, for the undergraduate, for...
Recently, I’ve been trying out an exercise with my students in my writing classes and workshops. I ask them to make three lists involving memorable experiences of creative play. The first has to do with experiences in childhood with play. The second asks them to list things they do presently they...
Look closely. This is what the world's first Time Machine may look like Never heard of "traversable wormholes?" Well, soon you might start hearing about them, as the world's most powerful particle accelerator becomes functional this spring - unleashing forces, capable of distorting not only space...
'This document is the result of my/our independent work. All sources of information used in the document have been duly acknolwdged.' “Two large multinational corporations A and B, headquartered in different countries, were trying to restructure a joint venture in a third country with company C....
Constructing Semi-Regular Tilings The following document is based on a talk given at the Spring 1995 Meeting of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The meeting was held at Hobart and William Smith Collleges in Geneva, New York on April 21--22, 1995. This document is...
I tend not to write about politics for a number of reasons, one because I never feel as informed about the subject as I wish I was and two, I think that arguments about politics are similar to arguments about religion: heated, emotional and full of pseudo facts, which once fully aired don't change...
