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"I've been on the lookout for other works which, like Proof, feature characters whose lives are lived primarily in the mind, and who view the world, and interact with it most fully, through their intellect."
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"Check out the papers yourself to see just how low people can go in science." Disgusting.
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"I've been thinking about how well science connects--or perhaps rather, fails to connect--to the entertainment industry."
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"[A] team led by Jöerg Wrachtrup of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, has demonstrated that two or three diamond nuclei can be entangled (Science 320 1326). "If we compare the quality of entanglement in our experiments with those [of ions and photo
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