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G.H. Eckel

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George Eckel has been a professional writer for twenty years. He’s been a top-ten bestseller for New Riders, an imprint of Macmillan Publications, where his books were translated into multiple languages. He’s a produced playwright and avid reader. He graduated cum laude, with honors in English (and he was also a physics major) from Bucknell University and did graduate work in English at U.C. Berkeley. A veteran of Silicon Valley, he was on the original cloud computing team at Amazon. Visit him at www.georgeeckel.com. ...more

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Reality Just Got Weirder

Reality just got weirder. The thing Einstein didn't like because it was too creepy just got proven. He called it, "scary action at a distance." Recently, a particle was acted upon by another one 1.7 km away without anything transferred between the two. Put another way, I do something here, something is affected in China. Weird.

A lab in Australia is now creating what, in effect, is the same as the Read more of this blog post »

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“Later it will occur to him that checking your feelings, holding them inside where they burn, is what a leader has to do. Every day.”
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“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?”
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