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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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