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• I had thought that the probabilistic nature of quantum theory was well established, and serious physicists had given up on the kind of determinism represented by “Laplace’s Demon” a long time ago. It is also well established that ...
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• The phrase “brave new world” originated in a line from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest: “O brave new world, / That has such people in’t!” Aldous Huxley borrowed it for the title to his novel of the same name. ...
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• Foot-binding was a Chinese thing, not Japanese. Comparing wearing a dress to being literally crippled is a stretch.
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