«This post is a condensed version of what I've sent to people who have
contacted me over the years, outlining what everyone needs to learn in order
to really understand physics.»
«Operation Tamarisk was a Cold War-era operation run by the military
intelligence services of the U.S., U.K., and France through their military
liaison missions in East Germany, that gathered discarded paper, letters, and
garbage from Soviet trash bins and military maneuvers, including used toilet
paper.»
«The Mortara case (Italian: caso Mortara) was an Italian cause célèbre that
captured the attention of much of Europe and North America in the 1850s and
1860s. It concerned the Papal States' seizure of a six-year-old boy named
Edgardo Mortara from his Jewish family in Bologna, on the basis of a former
servant's testimony that she had administered an emergency baptism to the boy
when he fell ill as an infant.»