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"If you indeed instituted the calls to flatten out the federal tax distribution, the influence of state and local taxes would leave you with an incredibly regressive tax structure, not a slightly less progressive tax structure. Which is something to keep in mind next time you read a Wall Street Journal columnist attacking the soak-the-rich qualities of the federal income tax system."
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"Itâs hard to tell if the author is being snarky or really looks upon mathematical physics as a âmumbojumboâ that impedes progress. Taking the statement at face value, it highlights an important and semi-common misunderstanding of many physics theorems, and so I thought Iâd take a qualitative stab at explaining Earnshawâs theorem and its relationship to diamagnetic materials and magnetic levitation."
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She re-shelves her books by color. Hey to Mike Kozlowski.
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"These are not your basic tabletop volcanoes or series of potted sunflowers. Many sport titles that you'd expect to see gracing the pages of the most prestigious scientific journals, and some of them actually have. Others became inventions developed for use in the wider world while their inventors were still in high school. Each and every one of these projects won their teenage researchers big prizes and hefty scholarships to ensure their future success."
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"The most common "peeling-off" method to produce graphene is only useful for making small-scale prototype devices but the new method makes it possible to apply this approach on a larger scale while preserving high sample quality, says Shukla. "
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"Note: this is "How To Write a Term Paper" not "How To Learn Something." Learning is your problem!"
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The Japanese think of everything weird.
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I've deleted the four other copies of this post that prompted Bob's remark. I really hope this was a one-time glitch on the part of del.icio.us, or some kind of server hiccup.
You missed one. There is a copy of this post with the timestamp 09:33, in addition to this one.
I think Delicious is having issues, their popular page is still down, and now the site has a little message on it.
nihilistic_kid's backstory is interesting, he links to an article of his called The Term Paper Artist which is actually much more interesting than the one mentioned here...