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]]> Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:44:07 -0700 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-fundamental-physical-limits-of-computation The Limits of Science http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science Good sense is the most fairly distributed commodity in the world, Descartes once quipped, because nobody thinks he needs any more of it than he already has. A neat illustration of the fact that gullibility seems to be a disease of other people was provided by Martin Gardner, a great American debunker of pseudoscience, who died this year. In the second edition of his “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science” (1957), Gardner reported that most of the irate letters he received in response to the first edition criticised only one of its 26 chapters and found the rest… ]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:12:00 -0700 http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/anthony-gottlieb/limits-science Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/07/desire-paths-reading-memory-and-inscription.html

by Daniel Rourke

This article is an edifice, a mockery of the freedom needed to create it. It is rigid, it is linear. Its sentences end only to lead onwards to the next, pulling the reader's eye through a series of limited, and limiting pathways. And yet, reading does not have to be this way. In the process of writing this article little time was spent laying out the path of words you now follow to their conclusion. The process of writing is non-linear, perhaps more like a network of ideas spanning out from nodes…

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