Berfrois

October 2010

‘The goal of igniting controlled fusion is simple in concept but fiendishly complicated in execution…’

‘The goal of igniting controlled fusion is simple in concept but fiendishly complicated in execution…’

The Promise of Fusion: Energy Miracle or Mirage? | by Alex Salkever

Environment 360

The U.S. has invested billions of dollars trying to create a controlled form of nuclear fusion that could be the energy source for an endless...

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Cancering and Proteomics

Cancering and Proteomics

Listening In On The Body’s Proteomic Conversation | by W. Daniel Hillis

Edge

Instead of saying, "Somebody has cancer", we should say, "They're cancering".

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Self-becoming under Stalin

Self-becoming under Stalin

Everyday ideology: Life during Stalinism | by Jochen Hellbeck

Eurozine

Why have postmodernist historians of life in totalitarian societies failed to explain how the Soviet and Nazi regimes generated absolute commitment? 

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Like Golems

Like Golems

    From The Threepenny Review: One day in December 1919, the twenty-year-old Jorge Luis Borges, during a short stay in Seville, wrote a letter, in French, to his friend Maurice Abramowicz in Geneva, in which, almost in passing, he confessed to Abramowicz contradictory feelings about his literary vocation:...

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Deathgates, Balefire and Lightning

Deathgates, Balefire and Lightning

The End of the Story | by Zach Baron

The Believer

Robert Jordan sold more than 40 million books in his lifetime. But before he completed his thirteen book series, he passed away.  

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