the fact that various groups i interact with on twitter carry on the tradition of blood feuds about arcana speaks well of their Ferment
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The great Rabbi known as the Chazon Ish once remarked that the students no longer threw lecterns across the study hall, as they did in the Lithuanian academies. Not because they had grown more emotionally refined, but because they no longer knew how to learn...
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This is excellent.
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“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” -Wallace S. Sayre
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It still happens sometimes in physics: I spent nearly three years of my academic career arguing (vehemently!) with a competing group about whether a certain process had a decay rate equal to exactly zero (their opinion) or if it was roughly 1/E^(10^(50)) but NOT zero (ours).
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The orangutan debate was the first sign of the rot. any redneck could tell you what it means, both the factions were being wrong on purpose & at some point they forgot the joke.
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was thinking good example of academic feud are different factions arguing about correct pronunciation of (formerly dead) Cornish language having to put aside differences to get funding and.. woahpic.twitter.com/bA35EW0wwH
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Make Anglia Gwynedd Again
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ive spent the past month looking for ways to trash a paper that's almost identical to mine (but with some key errors! for starters, their instrument is-)
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