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 Pythagoras' Trousers, God, Physics and the Gender Wars - Margaret Wertheim
Newest Review: ... a willing contributor." (pg. 11) "Tide" was a dead metaphor in that sentence until Wertheim cleverly brought ... more  ... it back to life by saying Modern Mathematical Man "contributed" to it. A tide is a mass of water in motion, and a Man would contribute to a mass of water by, well, you can work it out for yourself. After those two good laughs, I was expecting more, then damn, I came across this: “I suggest that contemporary physicists’ obsession with a theory of everything is socially irresponsible. In expecting society to provide billions of dollars to support this quest TOE physicists have become like a decad...more |
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Pythagoras' Trousers, God, Physics and the Gender Wars - Margaret Wertheim: Wearing the Trousers (849 words)
by amygdala - written on 27/08/00 (Useful, 21 readings)
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Some people enjoy sniffing glue or petrol or cutting their arms with pieces of broken glass. I’ve got a depraved taste too, but it doesn't destroy brain-cells or cause any other kind of lasting physical harm. At least, I hope it doesn't. And what is it? It's reading books with “Gender” in their titles, like this one. I find it hard to resist them, because a good laugh never goes amiss and that's what books with “Gender” in their titles so often supply. I thought I’d found another good laugh in this one when I read “Her writing is among the best I have had the pleasure to read” (an unidentified ...
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