Simple math is why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing what others don’t even consider possible Once, I said to him, “Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.” Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, “I’ll prepare a freshman lecture on it.” But he came back […]
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Simple math is why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing what others don’t even consider possible
2017.05.10 – 16:13
Terry Healey Cal Football (Pac-12) Motivational Talk
2017.05.09 – 10:43
Terry Healey Cal Football (Pac-12) Motivational Talk May 9, 2017 at 09:03AM
Will Hurd Is the Future of the GOP (If he can hold on to the toughest seat in Texas)
2017.05.08 – 12:36
Will Hurd Is the Future of the GOP (If he can hold on to the toughest seat in Texas) “Remember, everybody in Texas used to be Democrats,” he says. “The tug-of-war will be over the center. My hypothesis is that 80 percent of Americans are around the center—40 percent left of center, 40 percent right […]
Three and a half degrees of separation
2017.05.05 – 18:17
Three and a half degrees of separation “We’ve crunched the Facebook friend graph and determined that the number is 3.57. Each person in the world (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook) is connected to every other person by an average of three and a half other people. The average distance we […]
The Pros and Cons of Liberty
2017.05.04 – 12:18
The Pros and Cons of Liberty “For many people, this raises the question of who will protect these natural rights. Although libertarian philosophers may rail against the state, most people (including quite a few libertarians) cannot see how these rights would be protected in the absence of a state. However, even if in theory a […]
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
2017.05.04 – 12:16
America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People “The FTE (Finance/Technology/Electronics) citizens rarely visit the country where the other 80 percent of Americans live: the low-wage sector. Here, the world of possibility is shrinking, often dramatically. People are burdened with debt and anxious about their insecure jobs if they have a job at […]