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Quoted: Both the tree and the semilattice are ways of thinking about how a large collection of many small systems goes to make up a large and complex system. More generally, they are both names for structures of sets.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - 22 days ago | books, authors, literature, history, people
Quoted: In a 2003 interview, when asked the softball question “How are you?” he answered: “I’m mad about being old, and I’m mad about being American. Apart from that, O.K.”
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Arundhati Roy's response to the Economist review ...
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2009 | books, politics, ideas
Interesting early ideas on the role of cooperation in evolution.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 29 2008 | books, architecture, planning
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Quoted: In this special, four-part reading, Toni Morrison presents a pivotal episode from her new novel, A Mercy. The book explores the repercussions of an enslaved mother's desperate act: she casts off her daughter to save her.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 21 2008 | russia, world, people, history, video, film, books, audio, photography, cities
I love this site! So many pictures, videos, documents, interviews, and other resources on a very interesting living arrangement in Russia.
Quoted: This Web site explores and explains a striking social phenomenon: the Soviet "kommunalka," or communal apartment. Instituted after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the kommunalka ...
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 15 2008 | books, news
Looks interesting!
Quoted: Aravind Adiga, 33, won the 40th Man Booker prize on Tuesday night for his debut novel, “The White Tiger,” a vivid exploration of India’s class struggle.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | people, history, literature, books, poetry, agriculture
Quoted: academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays.
- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 13 2008 | books, style, architecture
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