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Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job?

Posted by timothy on from the fella-with-the-nutty-apple-theory dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Could Isaac Newton get a faculty job, or is modern society too intolerant of eccentricity? That's one of the questions that Glenn Reynolds asks Neal Stephenson in this interview over at TechCentralstation. Others involve the changing nature of fame in an age of fragmented media, the role of the Seventeenth Century in shaping the modern world, and what it's like to write a book with a fountain pen, in the twenty-first century."

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  1. Re:sir issac lime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what in the ring-tailed rambling FUCK are you talking about?!

  2. Full Disclosure by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Glenn Reynolds is a partisan right-wing hack who believes that if you opposed the war with Iraq, you are "objectively pro-Saddam".

    --

    "And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."

  3. He could... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    ...if he was Black(TM) or Jewish(TM). But White(R)? Nope. Sorry. World is too fucking busy catering to minorities.

  4. so get this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    so i'm sitting in my office (cube) yesterday and i feel a good fart coming on so i lift my left leg and let it blast. problem is, this fart brought a friend! there i am, sitting in the cube with poop in my shorts, shocked as hell. so i gotta make it to the bathroom while facing everyone i pass, cause i don't know what kind of damage has been done back there and i'm worried about something shimmying down my pants leg the whole way, but finally i make it in and bolt for a stall. let me tell you, it took a fuckload of tp to clean that mess up! i ended up ditching my undies since they weren't in any shape to come home with me.

    talk about a hard fucking monday.

  5. A better question... by los+furtive · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why doesn't my fountain pen have a scroll lock?

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    I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.

  6. Re:The more important question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unless of course if you were a turban. Then you will have to make sure that the school is within the perimeter allowed by the tracking bracelet on your ankle.

  7. Re:Depends by BenitoM · · Score: 0, Troll
    And sad to say these type of people proliferate and continue to indoctrinate their students.

    Are these the kind of people we want training our future leaders? And what are we going to do about it?

  8. Could he (geek) get a BLOW job is the question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Could he (geek) get a BLOW job is the question, from the finer sex.

    What?

  9. The author of the Big U does not have academic xp by Dusabre · · Score: 0, Troll

    Today, well, I don't have enough firsthand experience with the modern academic world to have a sound opinion.

    And this is from the autor of the Big U. A book about the modern academic world... Hmm...

    So perhaps he doesn't have enough experience with Finux to write about it.