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Wednesday Mar 5 | Independent Weekly

'Rapier wit' is an apt term for Stoppard's 1993 play

"Rapier wit" is an apt term for Stoppard's skewering of, for instance, academics, as he does so very well in his 1993 play, Arcadia , now running at Chapel Hill's Deep Dish Theater.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Chapel Hill, NC, Cheshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom

Fri Feb 28, 2014

Lake County Record-Bee

Opinion: Tidings: Science, politics, and global warming

The causes and consequences of global warming, or even whether or not our globe is actually getting warmer, would seem to be a riddle that can be solved by scientific investigation and analysis.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, World News, United Kingdom, Cheshire County, England, Physics, Science, Opinion

Siris

Aristotle and Absolute Space and Time

In Aristotle's physics, is there an absolute space and time ? I've come across a number of places in which people assume that it does.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, World News, United Kingdom, Cheshire County, England

Wed Feb 26, 2014

Psychology Today

The Problem of Free Will a And a Possible Solution

In philosophy , libertarians defend the kind of free will that the vast majority of people take for granted, that is, the kind of free will that makes us responsible for our actions-and thus for our lives-in a deep and meaningful sense.

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Related Topix: Physics, World News, United Kingdom, Cheshire County, England

Tue Feb 25, 2014

Dissident Voice

Weeding out Newtonian Causal Explanations from History

In returning to my dissertation studies on environmental and ecological history, I've noticed something peculiar in my research on the Great Migration-the early twentieth century migration of African Americans from the American South to the northern industrial urban centers-that I've had trouble wrapping my head around.

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Related Topix: Cheshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, African-American, Agriculture, Science, US News, Liberal Political News

Sun Feb 23, 2014

Surrey Leader

Snow helps test Newtonian physics in Newton

Marcus Tran, 11, slides down a hill at Unwin Park Sunday morning after a weekend snowstorm dumped 10-20 centimetres of snow in the Lower Mainland.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, Cheshire County, England, United Kingdom, World News

Tue Feb 18, 2014

Boston.com

What makes a great school?

HERE'S A folk adage you're not likely to hear around the City of Newton as the school year gets underway: "Wherever there is too much, something is lacking.'

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Related Topix: Cheshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Newton, MA, Theater, Arts, Norwood, MA, Natick, MA, Wilbraham, MA, Opinion

Sun Feb 16, 2014

The Heights

COLUMN: Staying Skeptical Of Scientific 'Facts'

It's called a paradigm shift, and when it happens, our understanding of a given scientific concept completely changes.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom, Cheshire County, England, Physics

Wed Feb 12, 2014

Gaming Nexus

The Floor is Jelly

The Floor is Jelly was singlehandedly made by Ian Snyder, a student at the Kansas City Art Institute.

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Related Topix: Kansas City Art Institute, Cheshire County, England, World News, United Kingdom

CiteULike

Quantum Mechanics from Newton's Second Law and the Canonical Commutation Relation [X,P]=i

Despite the fact that it has been known since the time of Heisenberg that quantum operators obey a quantum version of Newton's laws, students are often told that derivations of quantum mechanics must necessarily follow from the Hamiltonian or Lagrangian formulations of mechanics.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Cheshire County, England

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