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NanoPutians
Described here are the synthetic details en route to an array of 2-nm-tall anthropomorphic molecules in monomeric, dimeric, and polymeric form. These anthropomorphic figures are called, as a class, NanoPutians. Using tools of chemical synthesis, the ultimate in designed miniaturization can be attained while preparing the most widely recognized ( Read more... ) -
What's with "non un-"?
The Workers' Party showed at the 2006 polls, for instance, that it was able to put together a not unimpressive line-up of candidates.
- Paul Jacob, Why let losers share podium? (Straits Times, 16 August 2008)
Is it that difficult for the press to acknowledge that the WP fielded an impressive group of candidates at the last elections? Enough ( Read more... ) -
Cookie!
To Da Paolo Gastronomia for making possible 30-minute home-cooked pasta that actually tastes decent! The magic's all in the sauce.
Salmon cream
Seafood marinara
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All hail the regular soldier
Three times as loyal to country ( Read more... ) -
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Oh, sweet morning ( Read more... ) -
Gas gas gas!
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling ( Read more... ) -
Gamedev
I think I'm finally done with this and fiddling with engine code. Time to move on to something else!
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Cognitive dissonance
If one accepts the theories of modern science - that for all our human complexity in cognition and emotion, we are merely medium-sized aggregations of matter, slowly organised by natural evolutionary processes to look and function as we do and interact with other similar lumps of matter ( Read more... ) -
That it will never come again, Is what makes life so sweet
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thougth and love lose their value because they are not everasting. Many a man has borne ( Read more... )
