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\|	\|	logarithmichistory.wordpress.com Steam engine time \| Logarithmic History	4.0 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	The steam engine was a childof seventeenth century science; the Scientific Revolution gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. That's not at all the conventional story, but David Wootton's recent bookThe Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolutionmakes the case. According to the conventional story, the steam engine resulted from the work of...	4.0 parsecs away Travel
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\|	\|	geopolicraticus.wordpress.com Measuring the Size of the World \| Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon	4.4 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	Saturday A Scientific Research Program That Never Happened Carl Sagan liked to characterize the Library of Alexandria as a kind of scientific research institution in classical antiquity: "Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology, and engineering. Science and scholarship had come of age. Genius flourished there. The...	4.4 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	www.math.columbia.edu Beyond Weird \| Not Even Wrong	26.0 parsecs away Travel
\|		Philip Ball's Beyond Weird is the best popular survey I've seen of the contemporary state of discussions about the "interpretation" of quantum mechanics. It appeared earlier...	26.0 parsecs away Travel