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Bus Timer

I wait so much every day at the bus stop, and Iran’s system for tracking buses does not work. So I thought, why not have a model that tracks the movement of buses and, given how often they appear, compute their speed and therefore when the next one is expected to come.

The Cat Taking Refuge in Azad University

Today I had to wait hours for the archive manager of the university to come and give me my documents. This cat walked in and moved my direction. Her/him was very cold and sad, a religious woman dismissed her and that made me angry so I said to him/her come to me. Immediately she/he came and sat near me. Then saw that him/her is welcome and so came and sat on me. What a beautiful creature she/he was. (1/2)

The Cat Taking Refuge in Azad University

The Cat Taking Refuge in Azad University (2/2)

Quotes & Excerpts

One of my colleagues set me to reading papers in the psychology of perception, particularly the Gestalt psychologists; another introduced me to B. L. Whorf’s speculations about the effect of language on world view; and W. V. O. Quine opened for me the philosophical puzzles of the analytic-synthetic distinction. That is the sort of random exploration that the Society of Fellows permits, and only through it could I have encountered Ludwik Fleck’s almost unknown monograph, Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache (Basel, 1935), an essay that anticipates many of my own ideas.

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