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Zombie Feynman!
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"Given any exotic mixture of belief and group affiliation, there's almost certainly at least one person on Earth who fits the bill -- and who's even available to speak at your next engagement."
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"A session at the APS March Meeting focused on something I'd overlooked in the all the devastation: how Katrina had impacted physics universities in New Orleans."
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"[T]he more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper's quality and importance."
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The Answer: No, you dolt.
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