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    <title>a numbers game – The Homebound Symphony</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["First there was the Bacon Number. Then there was the Erdös Number. Then there was the Erdös-Bacon Number. 

I feel that there ought to be a whole new set of numbers prompted by the remarkable life of Terrence Malick. For instance:

Malick as a young scholar met Martin Heidegger, and Patti Smith is in his movie Song to Song. Heidegger-Smith Number: 2. 

Malick took a class at Harvard from Paul Tillich and later dated Carly Simon. Tillich-Simon Number: 2. 

Malick played basketball with Fidel Castro and is friends with Arvo Pärt. Castro-Pärt Number: 2. 

This could go on for quite a while. Note that I’m not even mentioning movie people. When Malick was studying at the American Film Institute he met Jean Renoir, and it is said (I have not been able to confirm this) that he went to Bolivia to meet Che Guevara and arrived the day after Che was killed — had he come a couple of days earlier he might have a Renoir-Che Number of 2 also."]]></description>
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    <title>My romance with ADHD meds. - By Joshua Foer - Slate Magazine</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I felt less like myself. Though I could put more words to the page per hour on Adderall, I had a nagging suspicion that I was thinking w/ blinders on…"

"There's also the risk that Adderall can work too well…Paul Erdös, who famously opined that "a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems," began taking Benzedrine in his late 50s & credited drug w/ extending his productivity long past expiration date of colleagues. But he eventually became psychologically dependent. In 1979, a friend offered Erdös $500 to kick his Benzedrine habit for a month. Erdös met the challenge, but his productivity plummeted so drastically that he decided to go back…After a 1987 Atlantic profile discussed his love affair w/ psychostimulants, [he] wrote the author a rueful note. "You shouldn't have mentioned the stuff about Benzedrine. It's not that you got it wrong. It's just that I don't want kids who are thinking about going into math to think that they have to take drugs to succeed.""]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Richard Feynman on the place: "When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they're not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come.

Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge: You're not in contact with the experimental guys. You don't have to think how to answer questions from the students. Nothing!"]]></description>
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Possessions meant little to Erdős; most of his belongings would fit in a suitcase, as dictated by his itinerant lifestyle. Awards and other earnings were generally donated to people in need and various worthy causes. He spent most of his life as a vagabond, traveling between scientific conferences and the homes of colleagues all over the world. He would typically show up at a colleague's doorstep and announce "my brain is open," staying long enough to collaborate on a few papers before moving on a few days later. In many cases, he would ask the current collaborator about whom he (Erdős) should visit next. His working style has been humorously compared to traversing a linked list."]]></description>
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