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Newsweek Remember the ugly feeling you used to get in the pit of your stomach after 9/11 every time a new video message from Osama bin Laden or his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appeared on TV? One reason we became conditioned to dread these spectral broadcasts was that the government...

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  • 2009-12-21

The reason for so many prime numbers is simply a lack of numbers which are less than the said prime number. While these prime numbers are useful in some cases for things like RSA encryption, they do cause frustration for younger math students because of their stubbornness and obstinence (the...

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  • 2009-11-10

There is a princliple which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. The principle is condemnation before investigation. -Edmund Spencer

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  • 2009-10-25