November 2011
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“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in...”
– How to be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen (via thechocolatebrigade)
Nov 16th
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Science Behind the Factoid: We're All Made of Star...
science: We are all made of star stuff, Carl Sagan said. This isn’t so much a factoid as a plain fact, but it’s worth taking a look at exactly what this astonishing fact really means. The modern theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, or the theory of how atomic nuclei are created inside stars, started with a very influential 1957 paper by Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, William Fowler and...
Nov 15th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 12th
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