RIP Dennis Ritchie.
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Among the comments on the Economist web site about the recent death of Steve Jobs, the vast majority praising the man like he was a…
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13 CommentsI am a creature of habit, yet I hate habit. It is like an intoxication culling segments of you, reducing yourself to a brood of…
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6 CommentsWell, for once this is a post in Italian for Italians. Would make little sense to convert it in English. See the Italian post. If…
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Leave a CommentThe proverbial sadness of the Tropics has been depicted in detail by much better people than me: yet I must echo the lament. In fact,…
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3 Comments(Part 4 of the saga of my escape from academia, see the original post that started everything, then also this and this.) So in the…
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2 CommentsThat Bin Laden has been killed instead of being brought to a jury is not surprising -it was well known that there wouldn’t have been…
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6 CommentsTwo months away from research, and it looks like it’s been geological ages. Not that many things have happened (for a start: I still don’t…
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4 CommentsYou steal my time You steal my energies You don’t listen to the lament You don’t listen to the call You crack my boldness You…
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Leave a CommentA few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did…
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