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Loved this post and Edith’s last one.
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<div>Here is a very interesting, short statement from Rorty on Truth and a bit on Pragmatism.
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<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzynRPP9XkY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzynRPP9XkY</a><br>
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<div>Great newspaper article, Frans. I want to buy that guy’s book.</div>
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<div>My son, Caleb, says the main thing he likes about being a professor is that it leaves you time for soccer/football (on the U of Miami campus).</div>
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<div>Dan</div>
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<div>On Mar 11, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Plank <<a href="mailto:frans.plank@UNI-KONSTANZ.DE">frans.plank@UNI-KONSTANZ.DE</a>> wrote:</div>
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Thank you, Edith, and to continue along these lines, this is from the science quiz (apologies for the four-letter word) in last week's Observer or Guardian -- the newspaper (whichever) that not so long ago reported the non-existence of universal grammar, beating
<a href="http://edge.org/">Edge.org</a> to it.
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<h2 style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">5. Ni[e]ls Bohr – the father of sub-atomic physics and a true genius of the 20th century and possibly the brainiest man ever to walk the planet – used to be a professional footballer.</h2>
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<div style="font-family: LucidaGrande;">Here's the answer about Niels, if you're really interested in the truth of the matter:</div>
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<p style="font-size: 10px;">True. He used to play in goal for the Danish side Akademisk Boldklub, and his brother played in mid-field (was so good in fact he played for Denmark). Everybody in Denmark loved Ni[e]ls, he was brainy, personable, an all round super
star and national hero. So much so the Danish brewer Carlsberg built him a house and gifted him a lifetime supply of free beer. Hic.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10px;">If it weren't for him, Uncle Al would never have been able to build the Boldklub Accelerator which reduces the size of atoms.</p>
<p style="font-size: 10px;">Other notable if unlikely professional goalkeepers include Albert Camus (French existential novelist), Pope John-Paul 2nd (last Pope but one), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and Che Guevara (Cuban revolutionary).</p>
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<div>And here's no universal grammar:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/25/daniel-everett-human-language-piraha">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/25/daniel-everett-human-language-piraha</a></div>
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<div>Calm down everybody. </div>
<div>Frans</div>
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<div>On 11 Mar 2014, at 15:09, Edith A Moravcsik <<a href="mailto:edith@uwm.edu">edith@uwm.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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Danish physicist Niels Bohr said: "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns only what we can SAY about nature." (emphasis original)<br>
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