Thoughts Of Infinity Considered Harmful
“What is the system that everything has to adhere to, if there is no god?”
Here is a very entertaining BBC documentary summarising the works of Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing. Mathematics is full of a surprising number of good stories and, though I’m not too sure about some of the more dramatic claims, this film ties a bunch of them together in a very entertaining way.
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Kids Caught Between Fatah’s Corruption and Settler’s Garbage
“[...] this desolate spot is a symbol of the impact of Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and of the dire economic state of the Palestinian territories, where about a third of adults are without work.”
West Bank Boys Dig a Living From Settler Trash - New York Times
They care for neither Fatah nor Hamas; they are “from the party of bread”. Where do people go when they are stuck
