don't talk to strangers

утверждают, что это - Уличное искусство из Тбилиси

google находит по goshaart много интересного

sex differences in ability tilt

Sex differences in ability tilt:

More males than females exhibit math tilt (math > verbal); more females than males exhibit verbal tilt (verbal > math). The differences are more pronounced among higher achievers.

see @ sciencedirect.com

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highly likely almost certainly

Russian spy: Highly likely Moscow behind attack, says Theresa May

Tankers almost certainly damaged by Iranian naval mines, US says

RT тут как тут: ‘Highly likely’ is the new evidence: Five times Western officials had no proof but media fell for it

Пхенц

Пхенц - рассказ Синявского, 1957 год. via

«Пхенц» на рандеву: ню, меню, дежавю - эсе Жолковского, сильный уклон в сторону сексуальности, но не так уж и неуместно. множество аллюзий, параллелей от Свифта, Бодлера, Кафки - до Льва и Алексея Толстого, Солженицына.

еще Фантастический реализм Абрама Терца, написала одна Gulnara Shomanova

В цирке / Квартиранты / Ты и я / Графоманы / Гололедица

уверенность в себе

Все знают, что если у человека нет одного из чувств, то все его остальные чувства усиливаются. Именно поэтому у людей без чувства юмора так сильно чувство уверенности в себе.

- народ

Часто недостаток логики у человека компенсируется избытком воображения. - народ

Maria Szymanowska

Maria Szymanowska

Danse Polonaise on wqxr

Szymanowska: Complete Dances for Solo Piano [amazon]



танцуют, похоже, еще при социализме

wise enough

Confucius say… by the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Confucius

битва железных канцлеров

битва железных канцлеров

best voice on NPR

Windsor Johnston - NPR brief; Windsor Johnston Moves On - WRTI brief, она и там работала (закончила Temple University)

'Super Blue Blood Moon' Coming Wednesday - тут короткий клип с ней.

иногда она читает NPR headline news. я бы не возражал, если бы она всегда читала. Cape native making a name for herself in radio - неплохой короткий очерк о ней (local copy pdf)



а тут - она со своим мужем, Bob Edwards (born May 16, 1947). What Bob Edwards, NPR Show Host Did So Wife Of 3 Decade Left?. Edwards met Windsor Johnston when he was 57 and she was 27.

see also Radio reporter email attacks woman for posting on fiance's Facebook and Radio romance: NPR alum Bob Edwards and WRTI's Windsor Johnston

молодец Виндзор. умница, красавица, и наверняка спортсменка и комсомолка.

она работала в Кении, это упоминается в статье о ней, и там же упоминатеся matatu, очень познавательно про козу и прочая

Infinite Powers

Steven Strogatz: Infinite Powers - too much metaphoric language and vague descriptions, a lot of political correctness, not enough substance.

cheap chapter headers like The Writhing Number of DNA and Nonlinearity Goes to War. same in the text all over.

a short section about Kovalevskaya (pg 278) says

While studying rigid-body dynamics, Kovalevskaya produced two major results. The first was an example of a spinning top whose motion could be completely analyzed and solved, in the same sense that Newton had solved the two-body problem. Two other such "integrable tops" were already known, but hers was more subtle d surprising.

More important, she proved that no other solvable tops could exist. She had found the last one. Ail others from then on would non-integrable, meaning that their dynamics would be impossible to solve with Newtonian-style formulas. It wasn't a matter of insufficient cleverness; she proved that there simply couldn't be any formulas of a certain type (in the jargon, a meromorphic function of time) that could describe the motion of the top forever. In this way, she put limits on what calculus could do. If even a spinning top could defy Laplace's demon, there was no hope — even in principle - of finding a formula for the fate of the universe.

this has to do with determinism, obviously, but i could not find any reference to Kovalevskaya findings anywhere else.

still, sections on determinism are somewhat interesting. he talks about "deterministic and still unpredictable" because of non-linearity.

at least i finally learned what integral means. just about time

очередь на Эверест

Ah England

Ah England, where public schools means private schools and death recorded means pardoned! - @ATabarrok



see details @ Daily Beast

Naked Alibi

Gloria Grahame sings Ace in the Hole (lyrics here is shorter than what she sings, here it's closer, but still different)

the movie, Naked Alibi, is ok too, if a bit underdeveloped somehow

поет на самом деле не она, а Jo Ann Greer

прощальный пинок

тетушка Мэй давай досвиданья Theresa May announces she will resign on 7 June

RT, конечно, не может удержаться от прощального пинка: Calamitous Theresa May could dance, but her political moves were a disaster. странно, что Скрипаля ей не припомнили.

да нет, как же, припомнили вот тут: Theresa May wanted to save her legacy despite Brexit chaos, but it was far too late

On the international stage, May hyped the Russia threat, adopting all the standard lines about how Moscow was seeking to “sow discord” in the West, using it as a distraction to cover for her own suffering approval ratings — and as a pathetic attempt to recover some of Britain’s own international standing, which has been steadily slipping away. In the aftermath of the Skripal poisoning in March 2018, May prompted a coordinated mass expulsion of Russian diplomats from across Europe, the US and Canada without a shred of solid evidence that Moscow was behind the incident.

ну как же без прощального пинка

вот и vz.ru отметилась: Мэй в слезах бросила Британию без договора с Европой. там фотографии хорошие.

однако As she resigns, British Jews thank Theresa May for being a ‘true friend’

JD Zelenka

Trio Sonata #2 on SiriusXM

Jan Dismas Zelenka, 1679–1745

Зубы Ватерлоо

Вечером 18 июня 1815 года, когда битва при Ватерлоо завершилась поражением французов, по полю сражения начали сновать мародеры, повествует El Mundo. На земле были распростерты тела раненых и убитых - всего около 50 тыс. человек, отмечает журналист Гонсало Ухидос.

Мародеры не брезговали рыться в карманах изорванных мундиров, забирая все мало-мальски ценное. "Но главным образом эти стервятники выискивали здоровые человеческие зубы - сырье для зубных протезов, которые охотно приобретались состоятельными людьми", - пишет автор.

- "Зубы Ватерлоо" шли нарасхват

подтверждается British Dental Association in Waterloo teeth:

If you wanted a really nice set of dentures these were made with an ivory base and then set with real human teeth.

These were expensive as it could take six weeks to make a complete set. They have subsequently become known as 'Waterloo teeth', as some were scavenged from dead soldiers on battlefields.

В XIX и начале XX века удаление всех зубов и замена их на вставные было популярным подарком на 21-летие.

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...in the early 20th century dentistry was still so expensive that some people chose to have all their teeth pulled to spare themselves a lifetime of pain.“Having all your teeth removed was considered the perfect gift for a 21st birthday or a newly married bride.” - Nothing but the tooth: The history of dentistry in Britain

and I’m a dentist in UK and very often chat to patients in their 60s or older who had all their teeth removed and dentures fitted as their 21st bday pressie. It’s crazy how recent that is.

shut up and listen

This unmerited overconfidence, they discovered, was interpreted by strangers as competence. Why High-Class People Get Away With Incompetence

And not all class teams worth “faking it until you make it,” Dr. Belmi mentioned. “I grew up in the Philippines with the idea that if you have nothing to say, just shut up and listen.”

see also comments in nyt and ycombinator.com

всё хорошо

по последним данным Россия занимает 131 строчку в списке стран по алфавиту. наши соседи- Румыния и Руанда. а ты продолжай делать вид, что всё хорошо! - Hagnir Adharson

Гибсон опять за свое

Mel Gibson says new film 'Rothchild' is not about Jewish banking dynasty:

Mel Gibson has been forced to deny that his new film "Rothchild" is based on the wealthy Jewish "Rothschild" banking dynasty.

The actor's standing in Hollywood was severely damaged over a decade ago after he launched an anti-Semitic rant at a police officer, in which he yelled "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world!"

Gibson's film career has been slowly re-emerging but he set off a new controversy after deciding to take the role of a family patriarch called Whitelaw Rothchild, the villain in a dark satire about an exorbitantly rich New York family.

see also Mel Gibson casting in Rothchild comedy sparks outrage и Мел Гибсон сыграет Ротшильда

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