It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Monthly Archives: March 2024
Facebook expanded to the
United Kingdom on this day in 2005
Facebook expanded to the United Kingdom on this day – March 10 – in 2005.
The University of Surrey, the University og Cambridge and the University of Oxford were the first three British schools to gain access to Facebook.
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Rarely do good surprises occur between adversarial nations. Communicating more, rather than less, is far safer.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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No one disputes that Bannon is very smart. He sweeps in information quickly, has a file-cabinet memory, can keep multiple tabs open in his brain. It’s how he uses his brain that horrifies people—and I’m talking not just about Democrats, but about many of his former colleagues, who see in him a disordered, nefarious kind of brilliance.
~ Jennifer Senior via The Atlantic
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Mickey Spillane was born
on this day in 1918
Frank Morrison Spillane — the American crime novelist who wrote pulp fiction under byline Mickey Spillane — was born on this day — March 9, 1918 — in Brooklyn, New York.
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The things everyone knows are most likely to be wrong.
~ John Steinbeck
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Worcester Polytechnic is a STEM-focused research university, and its curriculum emphasizes project-based learning: Students train toward junior- and senior-year projects that involve real-life impact, like developing a low-cost device to feed premature infants; or running analyses of the distribution system for Panama’s national water authority to identify opportunities to minimize shortages. Robots the size of small coolers on wheels scuttle around the quads delivering food to students in their dorms or labs.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery.
~ Charles Dickens
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