Category Archives: Paul Forman

Prague Manuscript, part II: Gott mit uns

Posted on July 11, 2016 by M. Meo

Lomonossov [that is, in the French-language transliteration of the original Cyrillic] was not content to state just once in the Prague Manuscript, that Peter the Great, the one who made of the Grand Duchy of Muscovy a modern European power, … Continue reading →

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This is how the System Rejects Real Change

Posted on June 10, 2016 by M. Meo

Michael hi this is Emma I am just writing to let you know that a motion has been made to be voted on by the SCC to expel you from the Pacific Green Party. What this would mean is that … Continue reading →

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Struve’s Exact Words: to Peter Abrahams

Posted on March 16, 2016 by M. Meo

Dear Friend and Colleague! In the matter of the actual intentions of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in purchasing what is referred to as the “astronomical repeating circle” (for 1082 rublei) and “two 3 1/2 foot passage instruments” (800, the two), that … Continue reading →

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I Said It Couldn’t Be Done

Posted on February 11, 2016 by M. Meo

For the entire life of the Large Interferometric Gravitational Observatory, just down the road here a ways and founded and directed by my old teachers at Caltech, I said the effort was a complete boondoggle, since the sensitivity of measurement … Continue reading →

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Who’s the Jew? Who’s the Nazi?

Posted on May 15, 2015 by M. Meo

Gregory Fegel was a witness to my arrest at the Occupy Mount Tabor demo. Gregory Fegel testified in my defense at my jury trial — which I lost — for failing to respond to a lawful order by a park … Continue reading →

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conclusion of Political Institutionalization of Science in the United States

Posted on February 24, 2015 by M. Meo

[this is the second of two posts, conveying the 1983 article in the leading Soviet scholarly journal concerned with issues of scientific research and policy — of course there are other journals, but they tend to be swamps of Party … Continue reading →

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Up to the 1740s

Posted on January 7, 2015 by M. Meo

p. 25: By all accounts it was characteristic of Muratori [starving transcriber begs indulgence of Gentle Reader as temporarily cannot find Eduard Winter’s great work. Izvinite] Quant aux fragments de Frédéric Schlegel et Novais, il s’agit d’un genre nouveau, du … Continue reading →

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Veyuh Haht Napohleeunh . . .

Posted on December 6, 2014 by M. Meo

Wer hat Napoleon verschlagt ? Und wer Hitler ? Nach welthistorischengeschichtlichen Antworten zu diesen Fragen Hat Rossija Prüfen zu geben Daß sie europäisch ist ?

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Der unsterbliche Lambert

Posted on December 4, 2014 by M. Meo

Now where wuzz-ai. Hmm. In the weeds, I remember. The query posed by the longtime editor of the Journal for the History of Astronomy Michael Hoskin [in JF Linsky & S. Serio, eds, Physics of Solar and Stellar Coronae, Netherlands, … Continue reading →

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John Heilbron Debunks Steven Weinberg

Posted on November 17, 2014 by M. Meo

My old Berkeley professor John Heilbron pointed out in a witty way the circularity of the Theory of Everything so popular as a goal among high-energy physicists of our time. Unfortunately, should they succeed in finding a T[heory] O[f] E[verything], … Continue reading →

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