Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

Talks about rebellion of the oppressed (and bandits), and therefore has been controversial throughout the many Chinese dictatorships.

The book is based on real events surrounding 12th century rebel leader Song Jiang during the Song dynasty.

It is also interesting that Mao Zedong was apparently a fan of the novel, although he had to hide that to some extent due to the controversial nature of the material, which could be said to instigate rebellion.

The incredible popularity of the novel can also be seen by the large number of paintings of it found in the Summer Palace.

This is a good novel. It appeals to Ciro Santilli's sensibilities of rebelling against unfairness, and in particular about people who are at the margin of society (at the river margin) doing so. Tax the rich BTW.

It also has always made Ciro quite curious how such novels are not used as a way to inspire people to rebel against the Chinese Communist Party.

Full text uploads of Chinese versions:

This was one of the first notable country-led large scale sequencing efforts of the world.

Sample paper: www.nature.com/articles/ng.3247

The history of light if funny.

First people thought it was a particle, as per corpuscular theory of light, notably Newton supported the corpuscular theory of light.

But then evidence of the diffraction of light start to become unbearably strong, culminating in the Arago spot.

And finally it was undertood from Maxwell's equations that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation, as its speed was perfectly predicted by the theory.

But then evidence of particle nature started to surface once again with the photoelectric effect. Physicists must have been driven mad by all these changes.

The exact opposite of argument from poor design!

TODO understand and explain definition.

Gas chromatography.