AIR Vents (39-4)
Exhalations from our readers
His Artificial Nature
Like every modern graduate student, I am trapped inside a windowless buildings all day long, working at my computer display. I have little contact with human beings and none at all with nature. My advisor has pointed a video camera at a beautiful harmonious scenic vista nearby. She broadcasts the video feed over our local computer network so that all of her students can work all day while at the same time "enjoying nature." I recommend this experience — indeed, I recommend graduate school — to everyone.
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Bold Man of Late Vision
In Pelbröem Thalim’s “211 Fun Facts About the Angstrom” it is claimed that “Archimedes was in effect the first person to visualize the universe from the perspective of a quark.” That is not correct. I was the first person to visualize the universe from the perspective of a quark. It occurred in 1962, shortly after the invention of the quark, when my wife and I read about it in the newspaper — the Daily Telegraph — as she was preparing my coffee.
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