Time Traveller's Convention
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'Each of us, at one time or another, contemplated suicide: Murder of the self.'

-- from Joe Frank's Work in Progress: Tour of the City, Part 2'

I confess I have thought seriously about execu -- poor diction, performing suicide, even today. If I must, I rather go by cyanide or any equally strong effective poison. Let me die in my sleep -- if one ( Read more... )

Die Love Parade ist abgesagt . . . Techno kehrt zu seinen Anfängen zurück - in das von der Öffentlichkeit Unbemerkte.
[und] der Techno aus der Welt verschwinden...
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When I was a child, the kind of thing I would dream about was being a James Bond or G. I. Joe ( Read more... )

Did Skolem have a proof of Completeness (before Gödel) as evince from the 1922 paper? To Tony's reading and also Yiannis, Joseph, and Charles Parson would agree not. Skolem certainly had an argument but still question if Skolem himself was clear about what he was ultimately attempting to prove ( Read more... )

All surviving eyes turned and stared at the beads of sweat dripping from Washington's forehead. Commander Saki could not imagine his long time trusted friend Terrell could be responsible for the murders. Yet evidence was there suggesting his friend was the guilty agent ( Read more... )

Disappointed at missing 'Celebrating Sherlock Holmes' panel discussion at the Los Angeles 'Festival of Books' hoop-la Saturday, I celebrated on my own by listening to Sherlock Holmes on BBC Radio 7 (listen again feature). In particular, I listened to 'Return of Sherlock Holmes: The Three Students'. For those who have never read this Holmes story ( Read more... )

Thanks to darcydodo, I was made aware of this which I find to be so . . . wrong somehow, especially the visuals for seed spilling.

To-day Monday for Philosophy of Mathematics Workshop, Harvey Friedman gave a talk.
People using common sense, think about say, a full head of hair. They think that if you remove one strand of hair a full head of hair, then it remains a full head of hair ( Read more... )

The most interesting quote I heard today ( Read more... )