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• ... that Nobel award-winning chemist '''[[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]]''' greeted World War I with enthusiasm, and that Haber played a major role in the development of the non-ballistic use of chemical warfare in World War I, leading the teams developing chlorine gas and other deadly gases for use in trench warfare, and that Haber was on hand personally when it was first released by the German military at the Second Battle of Ypres? | |||
• ... that '''''[[When Herring Met Salad]]''''' is a 1989 American romantic comedy film about a chef (Billy Crystal) and a restaurateur (Meg Ryan) which follows the their lives from the time they meet in Chicago just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years of opening new restaurants in New York City; and that the film addresses but fails to resolve questions along the lines of "Can men and women ever open a restaurant together?" | |||
• ... that scientist, theologian, and mystic '''[[Emanuel Swedenborg (nonfiction)|Emanuel Swedenborg]]''' wanted to present a new idea every day in his youth, until around 1730, when he changed his mind, believing that higher knowledge is not something that can be acquired, but that it is based on intuition, and after 1745, he believed that he received scientific knowledge in a spontaneous manner from angels? | |||
• ... that mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] is responsible for the '''[[Eilenberg–Mazur swindle (nonfiction)|Eilenberg swindle]]''', a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules? | • ... that mathematician [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] is responsible for the '''[[Eilenberg–Mazur swindle (nonfiction)|Eilenberg swindle]]''', a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules? | ||
• ... that James Joyce's '''''[[Portrait of the Artist as a Young NFT]]''''' is a ''nichtfungibletokenroman'' written in a modernist style, and that it traces the intellectual and financial awakening of young Stephen Dataloss, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to the loss of data, which undermines the non-fungible token economy? | |||
Latest revision as of 12:05, 27 January 2022
• ... that Nobel award-winning chemist Fritz Haber greeted World War I with enthusiasm, and that Haber played a major role in the development of the non-ballistic use of chemical warfare in World War I, leading the teams developing chlorine gas and other deadly gases for use in trench warfare, and that Haber was on hand personally when it was first released by the German military at the Second Battle of Ypres?
• ... that When Herring Met Salad is a 1989 American romantic comedy film about a chef (Billy Crystal) and a restaurateur (Meg Ryan) which follows the their lives from the time they meet in Chicago just before sharing a cross-country drive, through twelve years of opening new restaurants in New York City; and that the film addresses but fails to resolve questions along the lines of "Can men and women ever open a restaurant together?"
• ... that scientist, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg wanted to present a new idea every day in his youth, until around 1730, when he changed his mind, believing that higher knowledge is not something that can be acquired, but that it is based on intuition, and after 1745, he believed that he received scientific knowledge in a spontaneous manner from angels?
• ... that mathematician Samuel Eilenberg is responsible for the Eilenberg swindle, a construction applying the telescoping cancellation idea to projective modules?
• ... that James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young NFT is a nichtfungibletokenroman written in a modernist style, and that it traces the intellectual and financial awakening of young Stephen Dataloss, Joyce's fictional alter ego, whose surname alludes to the loss of data, which undermines the non-fungible token economy?