dimanche 4 mai 2008

What recursions may come



Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.


(Douglas Hoftstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid)

Use, misuse, and abuse of science

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (of which James DNA Watson was president) hosted the Eugenics Record Office during the first half of the twentieth century. A very interesting website about eugenics can be found at
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/.

Anything than can go wrong with science is found in the history of eugenics.