The government wanted to know what would happen if everybody in town received a guaranteed income, and specifically, they wanted to know whether people would still work.
It turns out they did.
Schlagwort: Gesellschaft
Mincome.
Obgleich; obschon; wenn auch; zwar.
... verzuimt ze te vertellen dat ze al verloofd is.
Beautiful Nuclear Dualities.
I think we mathematicians are a little bit behind the curve. We are not fully aware of the Frankenstein that we may have already created or could create. I think that’s another aspect of this responsibility of mathematicians to take a more public role—to educate the public by giving them access to the beauty and power of mathematics.
Keeping in touch(screens).
I know it’s trendy to fight the system and cry that we are all becoming slaves of technology, but this attitude overlooks that computers and phones are tools for communicating. When someone thinks I’m an idiot smiling at a machine, I’m actually smiling at my girlfriend who is 10000 miles away and whom I would have never met if not for these newfangled electronics. As they say: when the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.
Laurie, Colin and Yoghurt.
Now, with all these cameras focused on my face
Well, you would think that they could see it through my skin
Looking for evil, thinking they can trace it, but
Evil don't look like anything
Okkervil River - Westfall (Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See)