What you missed over the last forty-odd days:
How sailing works, explained by a mathematician. This article was the first time I understood tacking against the wind.
Think humans are successful because of our brains? Nope, it's our running ability.
Professors publish too much useless research and don't teach enough.
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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