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Richard Feynman on the idiocies of the textbook selection process.
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"There are two big economic ideas that look substantially less appealing in the light of the current crisis."
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"There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth in recent years bemoaning the "death of science writing," but it's really just the demise of an old paradigm that no longer fits the world we live in."
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Hitler: pwned
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The bot that generates these posts is partying like it's 1999 (did you read the date on that first item?). It would be interesting to find out whether anything has changed on the textbook selection front (I'd read the Feynman piece along with the rest of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!) I'm not optimistic, but there is no substitute for more recent data.