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Somehow I have a feeling the ultrafine fiber fragments shed by these yarns or fabrics made from them with age and wear won't be so happy biologically.

Generally small particles or fillaments of any material smaller than a certain size are bad for you if inhaled (i.e. Pneumoconiosis), regardless of their composition.

Additionally, if fiber fragments are short and fine enough, you essentially have little needle-like objects that can do a lot of damage directly at the cellular level.

So, not that I'm being pessimistic or anything, but in the long term I don't think it'll remain an everyday item. It might hit the open market for a while, but a few decades of cancer studies, toxicoligical studies and lawsuits would likely bring an end to that.

While my guesses are just that, there are a few discouraging signs in research to date. Watch this area; we'll see whether further results warrant concern or not.

To be clear, I think this technology should certainly be pursued, but we need to be guarded in our optimisim regarding its widespread applicability.

lisp is great for this- it's its own parse tree! :-). I took a course where we spent the last 10 or so weeks writing components for a new programming language in lisp. You can view the slides for the class and the "tiny" (the name of the language) source code here.

Keep in mind that the class isn't finished yet. Once it is, the rest of the slides, and the final version of tiny will be up.

"In the wake of the June 1969 fire, many city officials pointed fingers at the state of Ohio for creating a legal regime which made it unduly difficult for the city to maintain local river quality. Specifically, officials pointed to the state water pollution permitting system which insulated permitted facilities from public nuisance actions and generally inhibited local efforts to combat pollution. Had the state been more aggressive and cooperative, local officials suggested, the Cuyahoga would have been in much better shape."

Cleveland mayor Stokes alleged that "[t]he State has capriciously been circumventing the laws of Ohio by issuing licenses to polluters..."

Clean Water Task Force Director Edward J. Martin noted that: "All of the industries mentioned in your letter are under State Ohio Water Pollution Control Board permit [sic] to discharge wastes. The City of Cleveland has no further jurisdiction over these discharges since the State has assumed primary responsibility for enforcement in the Cuyahoga River."

The state's water pollution control board licensed industrial facilities along the river, providing potential immunity from suit. "We have no jurisdiction over what is dumped" in the river, explained Utilities Director Ben. S. Stefanski II. "The state licenses the industries and gives them legal authority to dump in the river. Actually, the state gives them a license to pollute."

Ohio had various programs, yet it preempted local efforts and common law remedies while failing to devote resources in water pollution control.

Clean Water Task Force Director Edward J. Martin noted that: "All of the industries mentioned in your letter are under State Ohio Water Pollution Control Board permit [sic] to discharge wastes. The City of Cleveland has no further jurisdiction over these discharges since the State has assumed primary responsibility for enforcement in the Cuyahoga River."

The state's water pollution control board licensed industrial facilities along the river, providing potential immunity from suit. "We have no jurisdiction over what is dumped" in the river, explained Utilities Director Ben. S. Stefanski II. "The state licenses the industries and gives them legal authority to dump in the river. Actually, the state gives them a license to pollute."

The history of the Cuyahoga River suggests that the inherent limitations of the common law were exacerbated by government policy. Specifically, there is reason to believe that common law actions, in particular municipal actions to abate public nuisances, could have played a more substantial role in curtailing pollution along the Cuyahoga.

Governments granting special immunities to corporations is not Libertarian, and that is why the Cuyahoga River burned!

Note, the article does say that common law, while it unfairly gets a bum rap, is not the silver bullet for pollution, and many other Libertarians would agree. They are called "geolibertarians". Google for them to see how they would handle pollution, or go to Holistic Politics.

Read about competitive work here.

I'm writing this from a Compaq R3190US laptop (Athlon64 3400+, 1GB RAM, 80GB drive) running 64bit Debian. Not "out of the box", but it is really fast. Check here

http://cmb.phys.cwru.edu/kisner/linux/compaq-r3000 /

to see how it's done :-)

6. You're still wrong:

No, I'm not. As I said, I can only assume that you have screwed up your locale settings on the machines you had to do it manually on (Ie. the non Red Hat boxes). See bash NOTES point 13, where it repeats what I've told you. Even searching for "en_US locale" on the debian lists gives: this message, among others, which confirms what I told you. Although the most recent message seems to be advocating breaking collating in the locale because of people like you.

All you have proven is that you can't listen, and can't configure you locale settings (or, I guess it's possible, that you've just broken your machines in some more fundamental way ... whatever).

9. Yes, that's what I mean by clash. Two packages are installed, only one of which can actually be running. Which is stupid.

Why? I can only run one editor at once, so should I not be able to install two? I can only run one web server on the default port at once, so should thttpd refuse to install if apache-httpd is there?

http://biorobots.cwru.edu/projects/onrprojects.htm

Thank god I switched to math. Girls are better at integrating than hashing.

Perhaps the could just burn the river for energy.

Seriously, though, when I was a sophomore in college, I took a road trip from Oregon to San Francisco with some friends. We were driving down the 101 coastal highway (for those of you unfamiliar with the 101, you can see the ocean almost the whole time. It's beautiful), when I had a Eureka moment. I was looking at the ocean and it suddenly dawned on me, Holy shit! We could put turbines out there on the coast to collect power from the tide. They'd be an almost totally clean and renewable source of energy. I'm going to win the Nobel prize when I tell people about this! I told the other people in the car about my prize-winning plan and my friend Bex told me, "Yeah, they have those already. They kind of suck." I was pretty crestfallen.

Are you suggesting that a planet the size of earth will evaporate, becoming smaller? So first, it gathers all this material, then for some unknown reason starts losing it? What is the mechanism for the reversal?

This kind of thinking shakes my faith in scientists.

Amen Brother. CWRU; 1995-2000; BS in CompSci. It's good that our department is so bad, it forces the students to learn on their own -- Lee White I'm not making that up. Needless to say, I don't donate.

OK, let me try to explain how this campus works to those who assume that Case just dumped tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on a fiber network in recent years.

The real answer is, we've had this fiber network in place since the late 1980s. That's right. So to those who are talking about "why not just run cat6?". Well, let me tell you, that wasn't exactly even around back then. Here's a brief (and somewhat dated) timeline of how this campus network was built: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/tour/Tours/CWRUnet_Tour s/CWRUnet_Timeline.html

I know this because I was a student here and now a technical and facilities manager and have been on the campus for about a decade.

Also, gig fiber to the desktop *is* nice. Try pulling down a complete set of ISOs (MSDNAA, BSD, Linux, whatever). The more the better, in my opinion. The equipment really isn't that expensive.

Yes, one of our limiting factors is that currently we are uplinked at an oc-3 with only about 45 megabits partitioned off for commodity internet usage. The rest is devoted to Internet2 traffic. However, as I understand it, this will change and in the near future we will have a full gigabit uplink to our provider (maybe even more, it's been awhile).

In regards to the recommendations made, no, I don't think they were really necessary. Who outside of this school really cares anyway? However, that said, the University does get a really nice discount on some Dell products. Enough to make it worth it for most students (whom would probably buy Dell anyway based upon current market share).

So there you have it. Quit bitching about the use of fiber. I know this won't stop the arguing, but might as well not fight a decision that was made 15 YEARS AGO. Oh, and by the way, kind of nice to know that that same infrastructure has WORKED for that entire 15 years without need to repull copper and likely will continue to work for many more decades to come. A low long-term TCO is kind of a nice thing you know.

Finally, my opinions do not necessarily reflect the official opinions of my employe, Case Western Reserve University and I speak in no official public relations capacity... I simply speak as an alumnus and current employee.

aha! i just knew this book would come in handy one day! (The author is the late Georges Perec, who in 1969 took up the challenge of producing an entire novel without once using the letter "e." and was translated into english by Gilbert Adair, also without using an "e")

After a little digging, found the name is the Peter B. Lewis Building. For those who would like to look at photes, go here.

As some of the other posters have remarked, the major problems are:

• Battery chemistry: the upcoming Martian winter features both short days (less light for the panels) and low temperatures (affecting the battery's performance. In addition, the batteries start to give out after many charge cycles.
• Dust on the panels: over time, dust builds op on the panels, making them less efficient. And there aren't any wiper to take to dust off.
• Weather: dust and wind will gradually damage the rover.

First the science boom wouldn't deploy properly, then the primary radio receiver failed, leaving NASA with a backup receiver that also was a bit flakey, and along the way more things started to go awry (like to camera-platform movement started to become really limited at a certain point).

Nonetheless, the Voyagers are still used as science intruments: currently, they are taking measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field, plasma, and charged particle environment while searching for the heliopause. They function as mankind's most distant sensors in this respect.

In fact, this kind of limited operation isn't strange to NASA: many probes first serve an extended mission after the primary mission has ended, and then limited operation may continue until the probe fails altogether (e.g. ca. 2015 for the Voyagers).

So in fact, when Spirit isn't able to drive anymore, we may still use its camera and other instruments to gather as much data on the surrounding soil as possible. Still later, when available power has dwindled to such an extent that even the advanced camera's can't be used anymore, we could still use the temperature sensors. Finally, when the high gain antenna fails, the mission might be over altogether, or they might still use the low gain antenna, until, finally, Spirit reaches the end of its agony and dies a slow electronic death.

I do agree fully with the parent on that we should organize a Q&A on this. How do we set this in motion?

I hope that your 4-year college will actually want a class like that. I took such a class at a community college while in high school, but my university would not accept the credits for that class because the university doesn't offer a class that teaches Office. All engineering majors must take a class on C++ programming, and nobody else (science, social science, humanities) needs a "computer" class. Of course, typing in Office 2 days a week and having it count as a high school class was great :)

For example, Python has evolved into an extremely intuitive yet powerful programming language.
Perl was also fairly new in its time.
There's GNU Emacs which is one of the most powerful text editors in existence.
There's the Apache Webserver. Although webservers aren't new, I would hardly call Apache a copy of anything.
I'm not sure whether the first publicly-released blog software was open source, but I think it might have been.
OpenBSD was, AFAIK, the first secure-by-default modern Unix system.
Linux (the kernel) has also done (or been modified to do) several things not done before.
X11 started as a project out of MIT (which I would guess was open-source, even though the phrase hadn't been coined yet.)
GNU readline is also something that is exclusive to open source
I'd guess that ls --color was something new to free software, as well, just because I douby anyone with a pure profit motive would consider it worth the time to implement. :-)
The Debian Project has made several innovations in operating system integration.

Anyway, there are plenty of examples. You just have to look.

Wow, flashback to 1995, when *I* transitioned from tcsh to bash. I had grown up on older Sun boxen where csh/tcsh was the prefered shell, but as I started using other Unices like Linux and AIX and as I started writing more shell scripts (especially little one-off scripts in interactive sessions), I decided to make the jump to bash.

All in all, bash is a better shell, especially for scripting. Back then tcsh was more configurable and usable, but by now I think tcsh has fallen behind. Anyway, there is a one-to-one mapping between most tcsh and bash features. The only diffence is the syntax: export X=Y instead of setenv X Y, alias foo="bar" instead of alias foo "bar".

When I switched, the two things I missed the most were tcsh's programmable completion, which is only matched by bash in version 2, and the method of doing a reverse search of the command history (tcsh's esc-p vs. bash's esc-r).

There are lots of great sites on getting the most from bash; here are a few good starting points:
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/FAQ
http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml
http://www.deadman.org/bash.html

My alma mater, Case Western Reserve University, has one of the highest network bandwidths available per student as well as one of the largest WiFi setups. With that kind of bandwidth, there are some very hard problems that Case could tackle with a good Grid client installed on every computer connected to their network.

I smell a PhD in this...

Here an interesting project that uses Bluetooth. Lego Robot.
Also here is a good overview of Bluetooth. Overview.

No need for hearsay. They say so themselves. It was $1.5 billion in 2000.

I can't make the link you posted load, nor did a search of their site turn up any notice of such a ban. I did find this link which is a web page on their site with direct links to several music services including kazaa.

My older brother graduated from Case with a degree in Chemistry several years ago. Upon graduation, he went out looking for a job. Two of the companies [one was Lubrizol; the other I can't remember] actually turned him down for a job because he was "over qualified" for the positions he was applying for. I don't know if it was because he graduated with honors or because he went to a decent school or what. Since there were no higher positions available at the time, he remained jobless for quite a while. (heh, he's actually been a bartender for the past few years.)

We could only think of two reasons why they turned him down, eventhough he didn't mind starting off at a low-level job:

1. they thought he would be bored and leave the company after a few months, thus wasting their effort in training him for the position

OR (what we thought was more likely)

2. the guy who was the next level up was less qualified than my brother and was worried about eventually losing his job to the new college graduate

Intelligent Design, a recent theory that has gained enough respect from the scientific community

Woah, stop right there.

It's proponents claim that it has respect in the scientific community. You will find scientists who like the idea. But the fact is, so far as peer review and confirming experiments and the general scientific community, it is not considered really a viable theory. It's certainly not any competition for evolution amonst the sceintific community at all.

The proponents' PR claims it is, but that's just the PR.

See, for example, http://www.phys.cwru.edu/~krauss/inteloped.html.

-Rob

Like this one?

Or perhaps this little one?

(Damn, I *knew* those would come in handy eventually!)

Like this one?

Or perhaps this little one?

(Damn, I *knew* those would come in handy eventually!)

There are at least two advantages to legged robots that I'm aware of (though the technology is not necessarily there to take advantage of them). The first is the potential to climb much larger obstacles for a robot of a given size. Robots using rocker-bogie wheel systems such as the Mars Pathfinder vehicle have amazing climbing abilities, but this is nothing compared to what a human can accomplish.

The second is a potential energy savings. Imagine a wheeled vehicle traveling over rough terrain. It's constantly climbing over obstacles which takes energy that is just lost when it falls down the other side. Meanwhile, a legged robot can keep its body above the height of most obstacles and just step over the top of them -- more of its energy goes towards its forward motion instead of the up-and-down motion of the wheeled vehicle.

Oh, another thing is the ability to tolerate loss of an actuator. If one of the wheels were to stop working on a wheeled vehicle, the rest of the wheels would have to drag that one along. Meanwhile, there's been some neat work showing the robustness of legged robots to such problems by groups such as the Biorobotics Lab at Case Western.

In the end though, it depends on your application as to which is best. I just can't see that one approach could be better than the other in all cases. Just as one example, I think legged robots have really cool potential for planetary exploration for the reasons given above, but certainly anything spending most of its time on flat ground (agricultural equipment, anything on-road, etc) would perform better with wheels.

I had a professor tell me she would not allow me to post a PDF file to my portfolio because she was worried about getting a virus when she read it?!

And this class is part of a CS degree?

In the past there have been virus's that have been transmitted by pdf files such as the peachy virus. If the professor is not completely familiar with her univerisities virus scanning software it wouldn't be totally unreasonable to limit submitted files to certain formats.

Exactly! Minsky was recently at our school giving a talk, and when asked about computational intelligence methods (neural networks, etc.) he blew it off as being a black box that nobody could understand.

What he doesn't understand is that intelligence wasn't *designed* - it was *evolved*. It only makes sense that evolutionary principles (and biologically-inspired control systems), rather than design principles, will be useful - if not instrumental - in developing true intelligence.

Either way, though, developing true artificial intelligence is more than a few years off, although small neural networks have already been evolved for selective attention and memory-based tasks (pdf link).

The kinetic energy produced by a collapsing cloud of gas is given by

KE = (3/5) ((GM^2)/R)

Where R is the radius of the gas cloud. When R is zero the KE is infinite.

See 'this site' for the derivation of this formula.

Thank you for proving exactly my point that physicists will run their mouths on subjects they know nothing about.

i was convinced by adam spier's page and the zsh faq to give zsh a try - it was even a netbsd system that prompted it. i got sick of administering freebsd/opensbd/netbsd with different shells and i wanted to standardize on something with the features i wanted.

bash was tried first, but when i started playing with misc options like vi mode, got deeper into completion, etc i realized that bash/ksh weren't appropriate long-term choices for me. auto cd to directories, amazing completion options, typo correction, shared history, and a proper vi mode (see this for the confession from gnu's docs).

'knowing' zsh will largely translate to bash/ksh systems when you use them and zsh is not available - you'll just be reminded of their shortcomings :) the basics are largely identical.

the new unix power tools book also makes much mention of zsh.

I have been told the US maintains a permanent presence at the South Pole for specifically that reason. Basically, although no country owns Antarctica, the resources there are free for grabs. Although inconceivable due to the expense, the US wants to maintain their claims on the resources in Antarctica, and the only way to do this is to have a permanent human presence.

As a result the US, though the NSF, funds lots of scientific experiments at the pole. Some examples besides Ice Cube are:

• DASI-Degree Angular Scale Interferometer
• BOOMERANG-Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation ANd Geophysics
• TopHat

(Note: BOOMERANG and TopHat are balloon experiments which are not located at the south pole, but are funded by NSF in Antarctica)

Basically the pole is really good for cosmic background radiation (CMB) studies because the atmosphere is incredibly stable. This allows telescopes like DASI and balloons like BOOMERANG and TopHat to observe the sky without much atmospheric interference. IceCube involves drilling a hole in the ice and lowering a string of photomultiplier tubes(PMTs) down into the hole. After adding water, which freezes into very clear ice, the PMTs will look for neutrino interactions within the ice.

So I've gotten a little off topic so I'll conclude by saying that if such a road could be built, it would greatly increase the capacity of the good that can be shipped down. Currently only C-130's equipped with skis and land at the pole, which is so dangerous that there is one fatal accident every year. Also the limit on the weight of the equipment that can be brought down is only about 25 tons; I seem to remember this number for some reason. So any increase in cargo capacity to the south pole would be welcome.

Of course that's only one law school for another example -

Columbia Law:

The median starting salary for all graduates is $94,000

Stanford

New graduates from Ivy League schools hired at firms with national practices can earn $70,000 - $85,000 in their first year, but the majority of new hires earn in the $40,000 - $60,000 range. Starting salaries are somewhat lower in the corporate and public sectors. Eighth-year associates can earn between $85,000-$113,500 per year.

less well known law schools,

Case Western Reserve

The average salary for Class of 2001 graduates was over $75,000.

Of course this is for recent grads 1-2 years as were the statistics you quoted. One of the benefits of a specialized degree is that the upper bounds on individual salary is much higher, and one of the reasons the recent grads are working thier asses off at 90k per year is that if/when they make partner they'll be rolling in the cash (maybe working just as hard, but at a substantial boost in earnings)

We can also check salary reports for an estimate of what you should be looking for as a more experienced attorney,

Career Journal

Associate General Counsel working in US - National now earns an average salary of 310,054. Half of those in this position would earn between 230,122 and 332,812.

Position Description:
Conduct criminal and civil lawsuits, draw up legal documents, advise clients as to legal rights, and practice other phases of law. May represent client in court or before quasi-judicial or administrative agencies of government. May specialize in a single area of law, such as patent law, corporate law, or criminal law.

(although general counsel probably work for the side that lost this case, but hey they still got paid, actually by CD sales ;>)

Department of Labor statistics for all lawyers

Area - All United States
Occupation - Lawyers
Level - Overall
DataSource - Published
Year/Period - 2000/Jul
Hourly Rate - $38.70

Of course this data includes public lawyers which are paid significantly less than corporate/private practice lawyers in general, and includes all levels of experience.

And this survey of law firm compensation:

Law Department Compensation Benchmarking survey - Total cash compensation

Attorney - 2001 - $120,252

The only way that medical problems such as cancer will be cured is by medical research. If medical research companies are not able to recover their investment, then the research will stop. They are in the business to make money, and are trying to make money in a very honorable way, helping to fight major medical issues.

Don't pharmaceutical companies have a terrible reputation for dishonesty? Here is a link to a story about Apotex . Short version? Pharmaceutical firms routinely get researchers to sign documents allowing the firm to gag them, if they discover information about the drug that would be bad for business. The lead researcher, in this case, Dr Nancy Olivieri, discovered there was a very harmful side-effect of the drug in question, and wrote letters to the parents of her young experimental subjects. And Apotex went ballistic, and tried to ruin her career.

This is not an isolated case. This kind of thing happens all the time. Usually you don't hear about it because the researchers fold.

The name Case Western Reserve University, which is certainly a mouthful for those of us who work/play there, comes from the 1967 merger of Case Institute of Technology (formerly Case School of Applied Science, founded in 1880 due to a generous land grant by prominent Clevelander Leonard Case, Jr., whose bust periodically peers out a window in the lobby of the building where I work) and Western Reserve University (formerly Western Reserve College, founded in 1826 and named after the Western Reserve of New Connecticut, which was a colonial reference to land in northeast Ohio claimed by interests of Connecticut since before the American Revolution).

Combined, the name Case Western Reserve University has for decades presented the unknowledgeable with the opportunity to ask questions such as "Case what?" and "Is that a military school?" when in actuality, CWRU is one of the most underrated universities in the nation, making it heartily worthy of positive moderation and perhaps even an Insightful flag.

Not to mention that Lawrence Krauss has written several books on physics and cosmology.

A local hero of mine, Dr. Lawrence Krauss Chair of the Physics Department of Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, has taken up the call-to-arms to protect Ohioans and the rest of the world against crackpots. In our recent "Intelligent design" debacle, creationists attempted to hijack the science education curriculum, and, thanks in no small part to his efforts, were stopped. He has also made a bigger name for himself analyzing science fiction, and is best known for his book "The Physics of Star Trek." If you find a scientific cause that needs a real scientist to refute morons, he is your man.

A local hero of mine, Dr. Lawrence Krauss Chair of the Physics Department of Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, has taken up the call-to-arms to protect Ohioans and the rest of the world against crackpots. In our recent "Intelligent design" debacle, creationists attempted to hijack the science education curriculum, and, thanks in no small part to his efforts, were stopped. He has also made a bigger name for himself analyzing science fiction, and is best known for his book "The Physics of Star Trek." If you find a scientific cause that needs a real scientist to refute morons, he is your man.

Polarization doesn't really work that way; if you had anything other than very thin straight vertical lines as the polarization pattern, it wouldn't work.

You might get away with different degrees of polarization, like the different frequencies you can pick up on your radio, but that's about it.

This tech isn't very secure, but it's much better than nothing, and it would be kind of obvious that you were snooping if you're standing head on to someone else's monitor wearing big black glasses.

Lost In Translation makes it fun!

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Ah, found it. Biorobots at CWRU. This is a good place for more information about the walking behavior you're talking about.

Funny, but you're closer to the truth than you might realize. Not for actual lectures though. CWRU uses the "blackboard" system to hold after-hour chats that are like recitations; one of my classes last fall had one. It was very helpful, and though I can't say videoconfrencing would have helped it a great deal, I suppose seeing my professor talk in response to our typed questions might have been useful. He certainly could have responded faster had this been the case. I'm sure you'll see lots more uses come this fall.

CWRU was formed from the "merger" of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University. My dad has a Masters degree from Western Reserve, ca. 1964.

some of us put the ATM technology available to us to good use a few years ago. see the results here. The CWRU Beowulf Project was mankind's last best hope for Bromberg's numerical Integration Approximation Theorem...

During the formation of the 13 original states, many statehood claims laid out their potental boundaries from coast-to-coast (despite not having been charted. ) Conneticut claimed the land west of Penn. bounded by the same latitudes the state was on (41 to 42deg 2') This was called their Western Reserve. Shortly after this, of course, these claims were given up in lieu of western expansion and federal pressure (late 1700s). More info at an encyclopedia of Cleveland history. Thus, "Western Reserve" is all one phase, and can't be split up.

While the 155MB/s ATM was fast when it worked, there were lots of reliability issues. Hopefully they'll do a better job w/ this.

If you have a CWRU login and are interested in network stats, go here:
CWRUnet Stats
I don't believe there's any publicly available network information, unfortunately.

No, not correct:

When trying the search for "kleiner leitfaden" (which is German for "handy guide") in Google Groups you will go to here , then choose the third message and look at the Complete Thread. You will go to here , than scroll up and you'll see one of the forbidden articles.

Then, try the same "kleiner leitfaden" in Google WWW. You will go to here. . The seventh link is pointing to here and again you will have the article in front of you.

Then, enter the title of the forbidden Indymedia site in Google WWW. The first link, try the Cache: here

Enough said.

The notion of the old-fashioned massive book sale is not dead yet, either.

There's a book sale that Case Western Reserve U. has every few years. It goes on for four days, and the last day is "box day" - meaning that you fill any size box with books, and pay only $5. People drive from Alabama for this sale, it's something of a legend.

This year, I got the complete set of Asimov's Foundation series (in hardcover), 4 of Buckminster Fuller's greatest books, 4 hardcover William Gibsons (of these, the best find was The Difference Engine), 4 lonely planet travel guides, Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Dragons of Eden and about 35 kilos more of miscellaneous biographies, textbooks, philosophy anthologies, Time-Life coffee-table books, the complete corpus of James Michener - all for five bucks!

Meanwhile, my compulsive roommate bought two complete encyclopedias, one from 1905 and one from 1860. I asked him why, he says, "they were old."

Right. Now I have to build new shelves.

They also have some rarities. From the website:

Among the finds on this year's silent auction table will be a first-edition copy of E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, with illustrations by Garth Williams; a copy of Paul Cheswick's Robin Hood, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; a rare James Joyce Pomes Penyeach, printed privately in Cleveland in 1931 and from a limited series of 100 copies; and a leather-bound copy of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock and The Old Curiosity Shop (printed in London by Chapman and Hall).

If you're anywhere in the East, I encourage you to come next year. All the proceeds go to the Association for Continuing Education.

The notion of the old-fashioned massive book sale is not dead yet, either.

There's a book sale that Case Western Reserve U. has every few years. It goes on for four days, and the last day is "box day" - meaning that you fill any size box with books, and pay only $5. People drive from Alabama for this sale, it's something of a legend.

This year, I got the complete set of Asimov's Foundation series (in hardcover), 4 of Buckminster Fuller's greatest books, 4 hardcover William Gibsons (of these, the best find was The Difference Engine), 4 lonely planet travel guides, Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Dragons of Eden and about 35 kilos more of miscellaneous biographies, textbooks, philosophy anthologies, Time-Life coffee-table books, the complete corpus of James Michener - all for five bucks!

Meanwhile, my compulsive roommate bought two complete encyclopedias, one from 1905 and one from 1860. I asked him why, he says, "they were old."

Right. Now I have to build new shelves.

They also have some rarities. From the website:

Among the finds on this year's silent auction table will be a first-edition copy of E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, with illustrations by Garth Williams; a copy of Paul Cheswick's Robin Hood, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth; a rare James Joyce Pomes Penyeach, printed privately in Cleveland in 1931 and from a limited series of 100 copies; and a leather-bound copy of Charles Dickens' Master Humphrey's Clock and The Old Curiosity Shop (printed in London by Chapman and Hall).

If you're anywhere in the East, I encourage you to come next year. All the proceeds go to the Association for Continuing Education.

Despite my intentions not to get sucked into this thing I did wander over to the yahoo discussion group and read a few posts. I am perfectly willing to concede that Dr. Zimmerman is far more qualified to defend "conventional" physics than I am...both for being an actual physicist and for apparently having read Dr. Mills's book. I also think Dr. Zimmerman made some much better points in the posts I read there than the quote I objected to originally.

The quote on the website bothers me because I think the average public already thinks of the scientific community as narrow mindied and elitist enough as is. They're more than willing to side with the underdog, especially when the "defending champion" implies that they're stupid if they don't blindly accept the most odd-sounding concepts.

I found one interesting article by a scientist discussing how difficult it can be to debate "pseudoscience" at http://www.phys.cwru.edu/~krauss/nytimesaprilrev.h tml which addresses some of these issues.

If it is wrong to apply american values to chinese culture, then the reverse would be wrong too. Weird, at very least.

Whether I, not being Chinese, like or dislike PRC's policies, is irrelevant because I have no say in their affairs, and though I listen to those who know (like you), I don't want to force my own world view on others. That would be rude and arrogant, and probably only make them angry at me. If your neighbor comes uninvited and starts criticizing your new furniture, wouldn't you ask him to get lost? Same here.

If Chinese people want to criticize their government, they have to work for that. American people did so in their time, and USSR, and Eastern Europe... Rephrasing Koz'ma Prutkov, "If you want to be free - be free!" ...