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For those interested in the fundamental structure of the physical world, the experimental verification of violations of Bell’s inequality constitutes the most significant event of the past half-century
Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity_ Metaphysical Intimations of Modern Physics
Tim Maudlin
For example, males usually compete for access to females, rather than vice versa. There are good evolutionary reasons for this, and there are clear evolutionary consequences, too; for instance, men are more aggressive than women.
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn’t need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn’t matter how much money you had.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age
Paul Graham
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