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May 22, 2007
In the 4th in the Harvard-Wired "Miscellaneous" podcast series I get to interview Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist and author of Death by Black Hole. We talk about our culture's insistence on thinking there is one preferred way of ordering the cosmos. [Tags: neil_degrasse_tyson berkman astrophysics pluto planets taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous] Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 22, 2007 10:58 PM
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What is a Sophist, then, as we have yet to corner the creature, and to unconceal the critter?
> I reckon a solosophist in disguise, my dear Soc? Or, perhaps, a slim chance at a shot in the dark, some evening when the moon turns to blue?
No, another other than I, or worse, a despicable cad. Maybe a renegade Pythagorean, even!
> Why so eristical? How tempestuous does the topic tempt one?
Have you not yet heard? The world awaits a new rule, which will only be another rule, anyway, in the cloak of a non-rule.
Posted by: Pluto Aristocles | May 23, 2007 10:56 AM