“Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.” – Mark Twain Professor Damodarn has written up a great post about academia. He readily admits that academia is not the “truth seeking” profession that is idealized in movies and television (and indeed in academia!). Instead, he…
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Sometime in the summer of 1963 in a small town somewhere in New England, a young man named John stepped into an empty room to find a tall dark middle aged man in a white lab coat holding a clipboard. The man introduced himself as Dr. Milgram, momentarily stepped out and came back with a…
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There exists a fascinating little creature in nature called a lemming. What’s remarkable about this rodent isn’t its shape, nor its size, nor its long soft fur. Rather, what’s fascinating about this little creature is what happens when you put a bunch of them together, can you guess what it is? Yes, yes, they do…