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New Words I Learned Today
Hyperopia: An excess of farsightedness. Most people aspire to be farsighted. It’s good to delay pleasure now so that we can be better off in the long run. But a recently published study (read about it here) interviewed people about what they regret. In the short term, people regretted partying when they should have been…
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Book Review: The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene
It has literally taken me years to read this book. Not because it’s uninteresting or anything, but because I have to be in a certain mood to read it. A mood in which I’m ready to read slowly and think deeply. The Elegant Universe is about superstring theory and M-theory; basically, the “theory of everything”…

I’m Phronk, also known as P.T. Phronk, or Mike. I’m a writer and scientist. Here’s where to find my stuff:
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