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Disgaea 3 was released on the PlayStation 3, the first of Sony's consoles to offer "downloadable content." So much extra content was developed for NIS's latest in their flagship series, that they were able to put together a full soundtrack for the new music Tenpei Sato wrote to support all the new content created for the game.
"Raspberyl" is a prominent playable character in Disgaea 3 who would go on to have her own adventures, thanks to the DLC. She's the resident "bad" girl, in that what she does for a living is considered taboo by the residents of the Netherworld. That is, she's a caring do-gooder. Silly, no? Well, silly is the name of the game, and it's what allows Tenpei Sato to write the zany, though occasionally emotional, music he's best known for.
There are a few carry-over tracks from the original Disgaea 3 OST, including fan favorite whistling-Western "Wanderer's Poem." In fact, I'd say at least one quarter of this OST is re-used material, if not more. But! Whether it's old music or new, what matters is that this collection of music is the same high quality you've come to expect from Tenpei Sato. And if you haven't come to expect that, then you're either very new to his music, or else you and I have a very different standard for what constitutes "good" music.
As usual, Sato wrote a bunch of silly vocal tracks. The opening and ending tracks are the prominent additions to the vocals (another good one in here is track 17, "A Song For My Old Enemy"). The vocal performances are always spot on, the harmonies are great... Sato just doesn't seem to make mistakes when he writes this sort of music. I wonder if it comes naturally to him. The melodies and harmonies are simple and traditional, but I still imagine that it's not easy to write music like this.
Because of all the track repetition, I'm not sure if it's worth buying this OST if you already have the full Disgaea 3 OST. But if you're a completionist, be sure not to miss this album. There's plenty of good music to be found here.
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Derivative Artwork Inspiring Derivative Artwork -- But Will The Lawyers Ruin It?
from the but-what-about-the-copyrights? dept
Of course, there are all sorts of copyright questions around this. Some folks are stunned that Gillis hasn't been sued over his widespread sampling. There are a variety of theories as to why that might be -- from the idea that Gillis' use might actually cause courts to recognize that such sampling should be fair use, to the theory that the music industry doesn't go after Gillis because he's "white, middle-class and educated," as opposed to those who often do find themselves on the receiving end of sampling lawsuits.
Either way, we may get to jump deeper into the copyright conundrum, as the NY Times magazine recently covered an effort to make an entire movie based on people dancing to Girl Talk's latest album, All Day. You can see the trailer below:
What struck me as interesting wasn't just that Krupnick wanted to make a movie based on All Day, but that a lot of his inspiration came from both RiP: Remix a Manifesto and having briefly worked with the lead dancer, Anne Marsen, in a video shoot for a commercial a year and a half ago. As the article recounts, Marsen is a classically trained ballet dancer, who dropped out of the University of the Arts and has since:
gone rogue, dance-wise, taking three or four classes a day from studios all over New York City -- jazz, modern, tap, salsa, flamenco, belly-dancing, break-�dancing, West African, pole dancing, capoeira -- borrowing gestures and movements and boiling them all down into her own unique B-girl bouillabaisse.Basically, she mixes a variety of different styles in a somewhat freelance manner. Krupnick had been looking for another project to work with Marsen on, and when he heard the latest Girl Talk album, he realized the basic similarities in style:
As Krupnick listened to the album, it struck him that Girl Talk makes music the way Anne Marsen makes dance. "I started to hyperventilate a little bit, the way you do when you get excited about something that you really want to come true," he told me.And this is how art gets created. Of course, it's interesting that no one questions Marsen for mixing all different kinds of dances that she's learned from others into her own style -- but when Girl Talk does it, people complain about how it's "stealing" and "infringing." Either way, take these two individuals (along with a supporting cast) and you get this entirely new and entertaining movie as well.
Derivative art creating derivative art.
That this goes against the claims of copyright maximalists will, undoubtedly, be ignored by those copyright maximalists. Of course, there's a separate question here: which is what about the copyright on the film. Gillis releases all of the Girl Talk stuff under a Creative Commons license. But, it's a license that does not allow for commercial use (which some find hypocritical on his part). I doubt he would object to the film (if he did, the social backlash would likely be quite strong), but given that Krupnick is raising money via Kickstarter, someone could make an argument that this is "commercial use." Separately, if Krupnick actually tries to do something more with the movie, he'll almost certainly not be able to get E&O (errors and omissions insurance). Last year, I covered the ridiculous difficulty that RiP's filmmaker, Brett Gaylor had to go through trying to get insurance for his film -- showing us his massive spreadsheet of samples he tried to clear, before giving up.
But the bigger question is whether or not any of the copyright holders on the music Girl Talk uses would decide to step in as well. While they might not have sued Gillis, there's nothing saying that they have to let this movie go forward. Beyond the copyright issues in the samples in the album itself, now Krupnick also has to worry about synch rights, which appear to be one of the lower levels of hell according to various filmmakers I've dealt with in the past.
One can hope, that as with Gillis' original works, that any rights holders know better than to call the lawyers -- and it would be a great story if that actually happens. But, I certainly wouldn't be surprised (though, I'd be very disappointed) if this wonderful idea for a film runs into legal problems. Assuming that happens, it'll be yet another example of copyright not inspiring new creative works, but stifling them (though inspiring legal fees).


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This came on my pre midterm yesterday
and this is the only problem i cant answer:
Find the Limit
Thank you very much helpers!
Happy holidays!!
It just depends on your definition of the limit. In the 'classical' definition, this would indeed be "does not exist". You can extend that definition for improper limits, I'll give one example (applicable to this case):
You can do the same for -inf and for limits where you let x approach +/- inf.
Thanks for the fix up, PH. I checked and checked my code. I kept getting these error messages, though.
Anyway, I had thought of just rewriting it this way:
Also, for a check,I ran it through Maple. It says infinity also.
But then again, it appears it is unbounded as x approaches 0, therefore, the limit can not exist.
Calculators and the like will still give infinity as the answer, though.
As TD says, it depends on your definition. Is this what could be known as a 'subjective limit'?.
My differencial equations professor used to say "... if the limit exists and is finite...". I should have asked him after class why he used that phrase. But I assumed he used a different definition for an existing limit. I just feel safer using the classical definition.
Now, it can be shown (I believe I shown this some time ago) that an infinite limit (the definition you gave) never exists (meaning you cannot find a delta for each epsilon).
Perhaps this is a good time to elaborate a bit on "the definition" of a limit.
For taking the limit, we could do six different things (a is a real number):
Number 2&3 are a right and left (or upper and lower) limit respectively, sometimes written differently.
With the last statement, I mean: we let x go to infinity but we don't care about its sign, so |x| -> +infinity.
That was taking the limit, but we can also get (four) different results:
Here, b is a real number and the last one again means unbounded, so |f(x)| larger than any real number.
Combining the six ways of taking the limit and the four possible results, you actually get 24 definitions!
Of course, they only make sense in the extended reals, since we're also dealing with infinity.
I included them under here in an image, to not overload LaTeX.
You'll recognise the first one as the "classic definition"
Hello Aftershock:
After reading your post, I happened to find this particular limit is a calc book.
I have attached the scan from it. That's what it says. Just pointing it out.
Anyway, this particular text goes by the definition that if the limit does not approach a number, then the limit does not exist. Infinity is not a number, therefore, the limit does not exist. That appears to be the consensus in many places I have read from--both text and web.


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I think the original Japanese is a bit more ambiguous. It seems to me from the raw that what Oga says could be interpreted two ways - Aoi and the others would probably think he was saying "It's good that you're a woman" since they don't know the context, but what he really meant (talking to Baby Bel) was "After all, a woman is better" (to take care of the baby).
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its in chapter 8 you'll find it there, stop being a lazy git note: I'm too lazy to pm you any link as I can't be arsed looking for link I myself am tempted to do some PS stuff this summer as I got nothing better to do that waste away the hours plus its bloody hot here now, don't feel like doing much at all>__<
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(INTC) Intel's First Quarter Report is a Non-Event
Intel Corp (INTC) reported first-quarter earnings of 40 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a couple of cents.
Although this was far worse than the 9.1% average positive surprise it reported in the preceding four quarters, it was good considering sentiments post IDC's PC shipment report. Shares were buoyant throughout the day and went up marginally in after-hours trading as well.
The negative surprise was on the gross margin line, which should improve in following quarters.
Intel's reported revenue was $12.58 billion, within the guidance range of 12.7 billion (+/-$500 million). This was down 6.7% sequentially and 2.5% year over year.
Weaker-than-expected PC demand stemming from tablet cannibalization and restrained consumer buying due to tighter budgets continued in the last quarter. As a result, buying patterns remain cautious. Microsoft's (MSFT) much-anticipated Windows 8 has not helped sales in the traditional computing segment.
Revenue by Segment
The PC Client segment generated 64% of revenue in the last quarter, down both sequentially and year over year due to the PC market concerns outlined above. The declines in notebook and desktop platforms were about even for Intel, although pricing continues to improve.
Overall volumes for Intel were down 6% and 7%, respectively from the previous and year-ago quarters. The average selling price (ASP) improved 1% from both periods. Intel doesn't expect reduction in prices, channel inventories appear lean and new products are poised to gain momentum.
Therefore, 2013 should shape up better than 2012. Low penetration and a growing per capita income are increasing the popularity of computing devices in emerging markets, especially the BRIC countries, which remains a positive for Intel.
Data Center was the second largest group with a 21% revenue share. Segment revenue was down 6.9% sequentially but up 5.4% year over year. Intel continues to gain from the growing importance of cloud computing and its own new products. As a result, both volumes and ASP were up from the year-ago quarter. Economic factors were responsible for the sequential weakness, although Intel remains well positioned in both storage and networking.
The secular growth drivers here are increasing Internet usage by consumers all over the world and the ongoing move towards virtualization and cloud computing. The high performance computing (HPC) segment is the fastest-growing segment within Intel's data center business.
The Other Intel Architecture segment generated 8% of Intel's revenue in the last quarter, declining 3.9% sequentially and 9.0% from last year. It is apparent that Intel's efforts in the embedded and mobile (phone and tablets) segments are not generating enough to offset declines in netbooks.
The Software and Services segment contributed around 5% of total revenue, down 7.5% sequentially and up 3.0% from last year. In addition to discrete sales, Intel is taking an integrated approach to McAfee's storage solutions, with the intention of further differentiating its products.
The Other segment, which comprises Intel's NAND flash memory products, generated around 3% of revenue, down 10.3% sequentially but up 22.8% from the year-ago quarter.
Intel did not provide additional color on its revenue distribution by geography.
The gross margin for the quarter was 56.2%, down 183 basis points (bps) sequentially and 787 bps year over year, well below the guidance of 58% at the mid-point. This was mainly because of accelerated Haswell inventory write-down (products that were not qualified), which Intel will recover through the year as products are qualified and sold. Continued declines in older-generation capacity utilization and lower volumes in the PC business also impacted the gross margin for the quarter.
Operating expenses of $4.55 billion were down 2.5% sequentially. The operating margin was 20.0%, down 339 bps sequentially and 950 bps year over year. All expenses increased as a percentage of sales but the gross margin weakness was the main reason for the operating margin decline.
The operating margins by segment were as follows—PC Client 31.4% (down 146 bps sequentially), Data Center 41.7% (down 613 bps), Other Intel Architecture -62.5% (down 1,385 bps) and Software and Services -4.1% (up 158 bps). Operating margins declined significantly on a year-over-year basis across all major segments.
Net income was $2.05 billion, or 16.3% of sales, compared to $2.40 billion, or 17.8% in the previous quarter and $2.66 billion or 20.6% in the comparable prior-year quarter. There were no one-time adjustments in the last quarter, so the GAAP net income was was the same as the pro forma net income of 40 cents a share compared to 48 cents per share in the previous quarter and 53 cents in the year-ago quarter.
Balance Sheet
Inventories dropped 7.9% sequentially and annualized inventory turns moving from 4.8X to 5.1X. Days sales outstanding (DSOs) were flat at around 26. The cash, marketable securities and fixed income trading asset balance at quarter-end was $17.07 billion, down $1.09 billion during the quarter.
Intel has $13.14 billion in long-term debt and $88 million in short-term debt, resulting in a net cash balance of $3.84 billion. Cash flow from operations was around $4 billion. Important usages of cash in the last quarter included $2.17 billion on capex, $1.11 billion on dividends and $25 million on share repurchases.
Intel guided to second-quarter revenue of around $12.9 billion (+/-$500 million), up 2.5% sequentially and down 4.5% from the Jun quarter of 2012 (in line with consensus estimate of $12.9 billion). The gross margin is expected to be around 58% (+/-2 percentage points). Total operating expenses are expected to come in at around $4.7 billion. Management also expects to provide for depreciation of around $1.7 billion and intangibles amortization of around $70 million.
Other income/expense and equity investments are not expected to have an impact on results. Applying the guided annual tax rate of 27%, net income comes to around $1.98 billion or 15.3% of revenue, which would be down from both the previous and year-ago quarters.
Intel currently expects the 2013 gross margin to be around 60% (+/- 2%), opex $18.9 billion (+/-$200 million), intangibles amortization $300 million, depreciation $6.8 billion (+/-$100 million) and a tax rate of 27%.The company expects to spend $12.0 billion (+/- $500 million) on capex. All except the tax rate and capex expectations for the year were maintained. The tax rate for the year is up from 25%, while capex is down by a billion dollars due to successful redirection of trailing end capacity toward leading edge purposes.
Our Take
Intel's top line numbers for the quarter were slightly better than normal seasonality and ASP continue to be supported by new products, as promised. There was some gross margin pressure in the last quarter, which should alleviate in following quarters. Product ramp-up costs will contain gross margin expansion this year although utilization should improve.
At the same time, product development spending is likely to remain high, as Intel tries to maintain its process leadership while preparing itself for the emerging mobile segment. We continue to believe that the most important thing to look for in 2013 is volume. If Intel's new products are able to generate much stronger volumes this year, we may see improved profitability.
For now, the company remains the leading producer of microprocessors for the PC market. Its innovative prowess has ensured that Intel is well ahead of its closest rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Therefore what affects it mainly is the market itself. Intel's strategy has been correct here and the company has positioned itself strongly in emerging markets, from where most of the growth is expected to originate in the next few quarters. Developed markets remain in secular decline and developing markets could soon follow suit.
Intel has also increased focus on the ultra-mobile, ultra-thin computing segment with its ultrabook concept that has been welcomed by Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and Dell, among others. Adoption of new technology is naturally much slower in an uncertain economy and the ultrabook's success has also been limited by a plethora of tablets and growing number of hybrid devices. But 2013 should see some changes as Haswell ships, possibly bringing Intel's first major success in the mobile segment.
In the meantime, tablets that run on ARM devices will continue to cannibalize on notebooks, which have been taking share from desktops. Therefore, Intel's core computing business will remain under pressure.
The enterprise segment has for long been a savior for Intel, but growth rates have slowed down in this segment as well. Intel should however continue to gain from the ongoing move to cloud computing.
Intel has a strong market position, a technology lead and continues to show solid execution, which should help it through the year. Intel shares therefore carry a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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Mar 28 | Date:Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 10:00 AM—5:00 PM Location:Redan-Trotti Library Event Type:Fun Activities Age Group:Children All Ages (5 to 17 years) |
We're celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday all month long. Visit the library during March to test your powers of observation. Find all of the Dr. Seuss hats to be entered into a prize drawing.


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Michael D. Gordin
BEYOND UNCERTAINTY: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb. David C. Cassidy. 480 pp. Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. $17.95 paper.
HEISENBERG IN THE ATOMIC AGE: Science and the Public Sphere. Cathryn Carson. xxiv + 541 pp. German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2010. $80 cloth.
Unless you happen to be a historian of physics, probably the only thing you know about the life of Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) is that in September 1941 he took a trip to Copenhagen to have a conversation with Niels Bohr, the wise man of quantum theory. Thanks to Michael Frayn's popular and award-winning play of 1998, Copenhagen, the controversial exchange the two had that evening in Nazi-occupied Denmark has become the most salient part of the public image of the mercurial German physicist.
This was not Heisenberg's first trip to Copenhagen. In the mid-1920s, he had served as Bohr's assistant at the latter's institute for theoretical physics in the Danish capital. It was a heady time: In 1925 Heisenberg formulated the first complete version of quantum mechanics (known as matrix mechanics), and then two years later he developed the eponymous cornerstone of his renown in the physics world: the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states, in one form, that you can know to arbitrary accuracy either the position of an electron or its momentum, but you have to choose—you cannot simultaneously be certain of both. Those were the happy days of the Bohr–Heisenberg collaboration, a meeting of minds that lasted through 1933 and then began to sink gradually into mistrust.
Two things happened that year. First, Heisenberg was awarded the reserved 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on matrix mechanics; that same year the 1933 prize was awarded to Austrian Erwin Schrödinger, for his development of wave mechanics (an equivalent form of quantum mechanics developed almost simultaneously with it), and to Paul A. M. Dirac, the cryptic British physicist who also pushed quantum physics into maturity. The second event was less joyful: the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in late January and then his seizure of power in March 1933, beginning the catastrophic 13 years of the National Socialist Thousand-Year Reich. Heisenberg would remain trapped between the poles of physics and politics, and the challenge for historians is to make sense of his struggle between these two major forces in his life.
The two books under review here, David Cassidy's Beyond Uncertainty and Cathryn Carson's Heisenberg in the Atomic Age, represent important contributions to understanding Werner Heisenberg. Cassidy's book is an updated, abridged and slightly popularized revision of his classic 1992 biography of Heisenberg, Uncertainty, which remains the standard. The revised version (like the original) is not quite a full biography. It traces Heisenberg's life in detail from birth until the end of World War II in 1945, but only one chapter, occupying 20 pages out of more than 400, is devoted to the 30 years leading up to the physicist's death. These final three decades, when Heisenberg served as the single most important public spokesman for science in West Germany, comprise the subject of Carson's excellent scholarly volume, so her book and Cassidy's mostly differ in coverage. However, there are some areas of overlap.
That visit to Copenhagen is one such area, and a comparison illuminates the divergent strengths of the two books and what they reveal about one of the most fascinating and perplexing figures in 20th-century science. There is no disagreement about the bare structure of the visit. In September 1941, Heisenberg arrived in occupied Copenhagen to give a lecture on behalf of the Nazi cultural propaganda apparatus, but his real motive was to have a private conversation with Bohr. Worried about surveillance, the two men took a walk in the woods behind Bohr's institute, where Heisenberg broached the issue of nuclear weapons.
Did Heisenberg take this extremely dangerous (certainly life-threatening for someone who lived in Hitler's Germany) step of alerting Bohr about German interest in exploiting uranium for the war effort because he wanted his mentor's moral guidance about whether to pursue the project? Was he warning Bohr? Was he trying to initiate a no-first-use pact in which scientists on both the Axis and Allied sides would refuse to weaponize nuclear fission? We do not and cannot know the answers to these questions, but the controversy rages on. Was Heisenberg a loyal servant of the Nazi state, working on the physics of uranium mostly for a reactor (an "engine," as he called it) and not necessarily for a bomb (although that distinction itself is a matter of extensive debate)? Support for this interpretation can be found in his willingness to serve repeatedly as a cultural emissary in Nazi-occupied Europe and his refusal to move to another country. Was he a covert dissident, sabotaging the German project from within? Or was he simply a conflicted man, excited by the physics, loyal to "Germany" as he understood it, and caught up in events beyond his control?
Cassidy's approach to these fraught issues is characteristic of the entire book. Although he begins Beyond Uncertainty with the typical biographer's gambit of touring the family tree—a revealing mix of upwardly mobile academics who clung to the privilege and respectability that scholarship afforded—the book becomes a page-turner when we are thrown into Heisenberg's involvement in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic—a brief attempt after World War I to establish a socialist state with Munich as its capital. This brutal period in the history of Munich, where Heisenberg had been living since age 9, left scars on the mind of the impressionable teenager. We then follow Heisenberg into the determinedly apolitical segment of the youth movement, where he was a devoted leader of slightly younger men, taking them on long hikes and discussing philosophy and music with them. Next comes an account of his stellar performance as a graduate student at the University of Munich, followed by the fast-paced intellectual drama that was the dawn of the quantum age. These episodes, however, take up only half the book.
Most of the narrative and some of Cassidy's most delicate historical excavations and nuanced interpretations concern the Nazi period. Why did Heisenberg stay in Germany? It was not an easy choice. As anti-Semitic fanatics fixated on the world's most famous Jew, Albert Einstein, relativistic and quantum physics came under attack, and Heisenberg stuck out his neck more than once to defend physics from those who would crush it in the name of ideology—even to the point where he himself was attacked as a "white Jew" (an Aryan seduced to do Jewish bidding) in the newspaper of the SS; he risked his career and possibly his life attaining exoneration. At the same time, he made compromises: He agreed never to mention Einstein's name, as long as he could teach the physics. "In the end," Cassidy tells us, "Heisenberg came to regard his personal survival in Nazi Germany as tantamount to the survival of decent physics, and the continued survival of some elements of decent physics provided the grounds for Heisenberg's personal continuation of the struggle." Cassidy shows us both Heisenberg's occasional courage and his willingness to compromise, presenting us with the difficulties that surround any simplistic interpretation.
So too with regard to the visit to Copenhagen, and the entire uranium project: Living under a dictatorship places ordinary people under tremendous stress, and Heisenberg was an ordinary person (albeit a brilliant theoretical physicist). Cassidy presents Heisenberg's accounts of the Nazi period, many of which date from after the war (sometimes long after), and shows us where the contradictions lie. And they lie heavy on the ground, for Heisenberg seems to have said almost everything and its opposite if you look hard enough. In the end, Cassidy is sympathetic. Heisenberg was no covert saboteur of the Nazi bomb; rather, he was trying, however ineptly, to do what he thought was best for Germany in the long run—alerting the Allies to the existence of the project, indicating how difficult it would be to make such a bomb, and hoping that both sides would refrain from the attempt.
Carson's approach is rather different. As its title suggests, Heisenberg in the Atomic Age concentrates on the years after 1945, although several chapters chronicle Heisenberg's public philosophical lectures before that date. Thus one might expect that the Copenhagen episode would be absent—and so it is, after a fashion. Instead of trying to get to the core of who said what to whom, Carson shows us how the stories were built as "a postwar story." She presents each of Heisenberg's not entirely consistent accounts of the visit to Bohr, explaining who the audience was, what Heisenberg wanted to accomplish, and how audiences both in Germany and abroad reacted. Carson's approach is refreshing and surprisingly satisfying, given that we are never going to know what really happened. By examining how Heisenberg presented himself to his many publics, we can learn something about the man, but even more about the West Germany he inhabited, a nation that was trying to interpret its relation to the Nazi past just as much as its leading physicist was.
Carson's subtitle invokes the "public sphere," a term that conjures up the philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, author of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962), which argued for the historical origins and cultural necessity of state-free intellectual intercourse. The usage is deliberate. Instead of adopting Habermas's views as an intellectual framework, Carson applies her rigorous historicizing impulse here as well. The Frankfurt philosopher published his book in a West German cultural milieu that was consumed with worries about the nature of public discourse and its horrific breakdown in the 1930s. Heisenberg, as one of the country's most prominent public intellectuals, participated in this world as much as Habermas. "Heisenberg's lived vision of the public sphere shaped West Germany's cultural and political settlement for science," says Carson. In the most detailed treatment of the topic available in English, Carson chronicles Heisenberg's deep involvement in science policy in the new, truncated Germany—whether in civilian nuclear power, the Göttingen manifesto against German nuclear weapons, or state funding of basic research—as part of the physicist's and the state's anxiety over a new, post-Nazi polity.
Carson also lavishes a great deal of attention on Heisenberg's public philosophizing. German public intellectuals like Heisenberg were expected to give frequent open lectures designed to foster civic cultivation and general education (the untranslatable notion of Bildung). For Cassidy, Heisenberg's philosophy was marginal to his life because he typically produced it only when called upon to do so in a public forum. Cassidy cites with approval Wolfgang Pauli's depiction (in a letter to Bohr) of his young friend Heisenberg as "very unphilosophical." As a sharp marker of the contrast between these two books, for Carson the fact that there was a specific occasion and audience for Heisenberg's philosophical writings is what generates their value as sources for Heisenberg's thought and for the debates over the public sphere in postwar West Germany. "When Heisenberg dealt well with philosophical problems," says Carson, "it was from taking up problems that forced him to think critically and putting science into synchrony with contemporary debate."
This tension between the public and the private runs like a scarlet thread throughout Heisenberg's life as presented in both works, and we see it once again in the Copenhagen visit. Was Heisenberg there for a private moral consultation or a public-minded venture of atomic diplomacy? Whether we can determine the private thoughts from the public acts lies at the heart of the biographer's dilemma.
The ultimate private-public act is writing autobiography. Heisenberg's 1969 autobiography, Der Teil und das Ganze (The Part and the Whole, translated into English as Physics and Beyond), is structured as a series of Platonic dialogues between Heisenberg and others, usually physicists. It is an important source for both Cassidy and Carson, but they use the work rather differently. Cassidy mines the book for anecdotes and reflections on the internal and external crises of the man and his culture, only occasionally correcting the physicist when the facts demand it. For Carson, on the other hand, the autobiography is itself a puzzle to be solved. She explores its construction, the revisions, the marketing of the original manuscript, and translations of the work to show us how, even when he claims to be most candid, Heisenberg is still hidden from our view—hidden behind the very public sphere he so desperately wanted to preserve.
Michael D. Gordin is professor of history at Princeton University, where he teaches the history of modern science. He is the author of, among other books, Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) and Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Princeton University Press, 2007).
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In a world where federal corn subsidies and industrial fast foods have transformed Americans into fat-bearing mammals, it's no surprise that petroleum execs would see a kind of logic in harvesting human lard to fuel America's economic engine. (Thanks Leila)
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
3 comments:
- Leila said...
Wasn't it Jonathan Swift, 18th century English satirist, who suggested that we solve the problem of the poor by eating them?
- July 2, 2008 at 10:56 PM
- Leila said...
BTW, a commenter elsewhere suggested that it would be less invasive to have the fat person get on a bicycle - burn the calories that way - rather than surgery/liposuction.
"Exchange the Hummer and fries for a bike and a carrot" she said. - July 2, 2008 at 10:58 PM
- Leila said...
Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal to deal with poor children:
plus ca change, plus ca rest le meme chose (and excuse my terrible French) - July 2, 2008 at 11:01 PM
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Norwich manager Chris Hughton insisted his side tried to win the game rather than shut up shop as they let their lead slip and Fulham came back to win at Carrow Road.
The Cottagers are 18th in the Barclays Premier League and only in the bottom three on goal difference after Pajtim Kasami equalised Gary Hooper's deflected opener and Scott Parker hammered home the winner on 87 minutes as the visitors sealed a vital 2-1 victory.
Norwich were guilty of spurning a number of chances whilst in front and seemed at a loss later in the game on whether to push for the win or settle for a share of the spoils.
But Hughton felt the openness of the game proved his side wanted to win and that Fulham dealt better with the end-to-end second half.
"I don't think anybody can accuse us of not trying to win the game," he said.
"We couldn't find that right moment. The game became a little bit open and they capitalised on that. It was probably a game in that second half that could have gone either way.
"We've made some poor decisions, we perhaps haven't created enough clear cut chances but it's not a question of the players not giving enough."
Rene Meulensteen guided Fulham to a second win in their last 10 league games and the Dutchman believes the experience of his squad could make the difference between relegation and top-flight survival.
"The team has plenty of experience in the side," he said.
"Hopefully that will prove very valuable on the journey of staying in the Premier League this year. Scott is very important as a captain and he leads by example."
Parker's late strike looked like taking Fulham out of the bottom three until Crystal Palace grabbed a late winner at Aston Villa but Meulensteen still thinks it could prove to be a key moment in the season.
"It could be a very significant goal but we can only tell when weeks and weeks go by," he added.
"I've been delighted with Scott scoring the winner because his character and leadership on the pitch has typified the sort of performances we've had over the last couple of weeks.
"I was in an angle behind him and playing the ball with him. The first touch set him up and boom, he hit it straight on the trigger. It gave (John) Ruddy no chance."
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