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<int-e> le//rn schwartzian//In 1987, Yogurt introduced a better way to rank Schwartz users: Rather than holding an annual tournament, users would take a series of standardized tests adminstered by official Schwartz centers, and would then be ranked according to the results. This lead to the Schwartzian transform because it allowed many more users to be ranked.
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date Fri, 12 Jan 2024 07:24:55 +0000
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1 After living in New York, you trust nobody, but you believe everything.
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2 Just in case.
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4 Words have a longer life than deeds.
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5 -- Pindar
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7 If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible
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8 and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But there is a kind
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9 of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the
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10 good. And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific community
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11 ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and second, the
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12 media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful. Every newspaper
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13 in America has a daily astrology column. How many have even a weekly
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14 astronomy column? And I believe it is also the fault of the educational
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15 system. We do not teach how to think. This is a very serious failure that
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16 may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons, compromise the human
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17 future.
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18 -- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12, Fall 87
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20 O que não é lembrado nunca aconteceu.
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22 . . . . o o o o o
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23 _____ o
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25 [________]_|__|________)<
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26 oo oo 'oo OOOO-| oo\\_
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29 Even a blind pig stumbles upon a few acorns.
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31 Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
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32 In children's circuses could stay their troubles?
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33 There was a time they could cry over books,
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34 But time has set its maggot on their track.
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35 Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe.
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36 What's never known is safest in this life.
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37 Under the skysigns they who have no arms
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38 Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost
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39 Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best.
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40 -- Dylan Thomas, "Was There A Time"
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42 //// `\
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43 C--O-O--D
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45 | `-' |
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46 \ /
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48 A man sank into the psychiatrist's couch and said, "I have a
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49 terrible problem, Doctor. I have a son at Harvard and another son at
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50 Princeton; I've just gifted each of them with a new Ferrari; I've got
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51 homes in Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and a co-op in New York; and I've
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52 got a thriving ranch in Venezuela. My wife is a gorgeous young actress
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53 who considers my two mistresses to be her best friends."
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54 The psychiatrist looked at the patient, confused. "Did I miss
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55 something? It sounds to me like you have no problems at all."
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56 "But, Doctor, I only make $175 a week."
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58 -=Shopping trolly=-
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