Get Started Handling Academic Citations Like a Pro

…other “+” appearing above “Source Options” on the new pane. Just go to any search box (such as Google Scholar) and search for “***“, and copy resulting page’s URL. Paste it in the web-search shortcut you just created in Quicksilver under “URL.” Under “Name,” write something useful like “GoogleScholar.” Finally, rescan your catalog by clicking the circular-arrow in the bottom right. That’s it! To search for stuff, just invoke Quicksilver, hit “.” (…

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Get Started Reading Books and Articles on the Cheap

…. Or, visit your local University’s library for an even grander selection. Buy very, very cheap books. Ok, so this one’s almost free. There are hundreds of books selling at less than 1 cent on Amazon. They’re not all worth a penny, but there are some real jewels among the noise, which you can get for only the price of shipping. To find them, try browsing by subject, and then selecting “Sort by Price: Low to High.” Reading With Questionable Scruple…

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Special: What’s With the Economy.

…ake a living this decade. McDuck decided to lend him some money anyway, to buy a nice house (let’s say, 100,000). This was a very risky idea. After all, poor old Mickey was struggling just to get by, let alone make regular mortgage payments. So to make up for the risk, McDuck asked Mickey to pay MUCH more than the original price of the house — say, 500,000 over the course of 30 years. McDuck was betting that he had a chance to make a lot more mone…

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Solving the Black Hole Information "Paradox"

…appears” into a singularity because there is no singularity. Therefore, no information is lost, and a pure state remains a pure state. As discussed above, this doesn’t mean that quantum information loss can’t happen; it only suggests a framework in which it doesn’t happen as a result of black hole evaporation. Whether or not any such framework can prevent quantum information loss altogether remains to be seen. Soul Physics is authored by Bryan W….

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New Directions in Foundations of Physics 2008

…some particular relation that the box guarantees. For example, one type of box, which he called a “PR Box,” guaranteed that input1 * input2 = output1 + output2. Each of Gisin’s crisp, clear explanations and carefully analyzed experiments were delivered with the punctual precision of the Swiss old school. In the end, he related his new conceptual tool to the Hamiltonian formalism. You won’t find it in nature, but it teaches you something interestin…

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