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Why must conversions always co...

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

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Where subtlety fails us we mus...

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

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Creative people see Prometheus...

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

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Learn to control ego. Humans h...

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.

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You don't have conversations w...

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

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But honestly, if you do a rigo...

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

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With gritty action and realist...

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

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In contrast, markets - oft myt...

In contrast, markets - oft mythologized as 'natural' are the most unnatural things going. Libertarians will tell you 'market laws are laws of nature', what baloney. Markets - and the other great modernist cornucopian tools - are magnificent wealth generating machines, built ad-hoc, through trial and error, constantly fine-tuned and refined, tinkered, adjusted.

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Self-awareness is probably ove...

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

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Prison for the crime of pubert...

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

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...where were answers to the t...

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

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If you believe you can make a ...

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

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Beware of self-indulgence. The...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

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Gaia spins on, silently contem...

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

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The village is coming back, li...

The village is coming back, like it or not.

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Seldom does a storytelling tal...

Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.

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The sane are usually attracted...

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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If an outsider perceives 'some...

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

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I hate the whole Гјbermensch, ...

I hate the whole Гјbermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.

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What point was there in pursui...

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....