Here’s handy info to have. One never knows when one might find oneself in the situation described by Philip Ball in his May 18, 2007 report in Nature: How to survive in a black hole So there you are: you discover that your spaceship has inadvertently slipped across the event horizon of a black hole […]
About: Stephen Drew
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Nonequilibrium quantum / wedge/ Pac-Man / billiards
We have studied magnetized billiards with Wedge and Pac-Man like geometries where rotational invariance is broken. We have considered different rational an [sic?] irrational angles for the billiards. So says the abstract for a talk given March 21, 2000 by M. A. Gongora (of Northeastern University and the University of Mexico), J.V. Jose and S. […]
Measured discovery about meetings
Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who interrupt and try to dominate meetings. So says a May 2007 report by Inc. magazine. This great, measured discovery was made by a research firm called […]
Hazarding about Freud’s posing
Assuming that Jung had primary responsibility for the posing of the photograph, let me speculate regarding Freud‘s response to this situation. Freud was generally uneasy about being photographed. For example, in his response to Jung’s request for his picture in 1907 (McGuire, p. 88) he wrote, “In the last fifteen years I have never willingly […]