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Why I enjoy the joker

“I think we take a vicarious pleasure in the problems that they present, in the pain that they inflict, and not least of which in the demise that they suffer at some point,” says Stephen Lang, who plays the vengeful, scar-faced military officer Miles Quaritch in Avatar. “It’s like having a vaccine,” says Karen Sternheimer,…
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Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine | Video on TED.com
Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine via Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine | Video on TED.com. Some thoughts: 1) Feynman once said if our civilization ever pass one piece of knowledge onto the next civilization, whatever form of life that civilization is, it is the structure of an atom. 2) The video…
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Critical Self-assessment – Economic
“It’s not about money, but sending a message.” — Joker, The Dark Knight “Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.” —…
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Critical Self-assessment — Physical
Rains in fall are mainly caused by the cold air moving from north to south to replace the warm air. And this replacement will not only result in rains, but also a change in the humidity, atmospheric pressure and of course temperature. All of these change in the environment will affect body functions. Since the…
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Henry VIII
I have always wanted to write something about London since I came back in early September. But there were so many things to say: the history, the art, the architectures, the religions, the science, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, Sherlock Holmes’ imaginary residence on 221b baker street, and Samuel Johnson’s House. So naturally, I don’t know…


