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The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

26 Saturday Oct 2013

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This looks fascinating.  Samuel Arbesman is an applied mathematician and network scientist who writes for Wired.  Here, he takes a look at the evolution of knowledge, including scientific knowledge, and how it grows (and decays) with time.  More evidence of the uncertainty of what we think we know.

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