This just has to be preserved for posterity: Kellerman asked whether the higher success rate of “arranged marriages” over what he called “discretionary marriages” suggested than humans shouldn’t be making important decisions. The human team said that maybe so, but that humans are still the ones arranging the marriages. In a stereotypically un-romantic way that [...]
Update Jun 18 2009: Facebook seems to have thought the better of it and scrapped it. Imminent merger with Twitter? As it is, any updates to my FB status show up on Twitter, and vice versa. It’s only a matter of time. Xiaonei.com, the Chinese Facebook clone, already restricts users to status updates of 140 [...]
Total eclipses are a luxury of our time. Future beings will not be able to experience this magical natural phenomenon which turns day into night. From my class notes: The Moon’s average distance from Earth increases by 3.8 centimeters per year. Such a precise value is possible due to Apollo laser reflectors which astronauts left [...]
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