Sad news: Lynn Margulis, advocate of the endosymbiosis theory of eukaryotic origins, has died. She was smart, creative, and promoter of a lot of wild ideas…and to her credit, some of them were even right. I think her greatest strength was her eagerness to step right out to the edge of science and push, push, push — sometimes futilely, but sometimes she really did succeed in pushing back the frontier a bit.
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Time to ask the regulars to push some buttons again. (You do realise that this is just an experiment in behavioristic psychology?)
So, I push you.
Then, you push me.
Then, I push you.
Then, you push me.
Then, I push you.
Then, you push me.
And I go "Hey, no pushing! Unfair!!!!"
Or perhaps it goes like this, a little more complicated:
I thought that it would be fun to stick with the "stack-based" theme of last week's pathological post, but this time, to pick an utterly pointlessly twisted stack based language, but one that would be appreciated by
Kevin Granata, one of the authors of the work described here, was killed in in the shootings at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.