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Spiritng Neal Stephenson Away
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9–13 minutes·
No comments on Spiritng Neal Stephenson AwayA review of a lecture by award-winning SF author Neal Stephenson, on ‘Newton/Leibniz’, together with a review of Miyazaki’s film ‘Spirited Away’.
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An Evening with George Dyson
A review of a lecture given by George Dyson about Project Orion, America’s planned nuclear bomb-propelled spacecraft.
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Lessig at Trinity
I just found out that Lawrence Lessig, the champion of individual rights on the Internet, went to Trinity College at Cambridge (my college). The Wired article says: He went to Trinity College in Cambridge, England, for what he thought would be an extra year of coursework. He wound up spending three years there studying philosophy.…
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College Girls
It strikes me that, so far, the Channel 4 documentary College Girls is giving people a very skewed view of life in Oxbridge. I understand that documentaries have to concentrate on the more interesting aspects of their subjects, which is why the first episode was about a student activist refusing to pay her university fees…
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Oxbridge admissions
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1–2 minutes·
While idly browsing through an Oxbridge admissions website, I came across a report of an interview written by someone who applied to the same course at the same college as I did, but a year later. Curious to see if they’d changed anything, I checked out the questions this person was asked at interview. Practically…
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