http://madisonian.net/2006/08/13/that-thing-called-television/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:59:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/08/13/that-thing-called-television/comment-page-1/#comment-68477 Frank Pasquale Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:57:48 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=738#comment-68477 Both Klinkenborg's musings and your article remind me of one of my favorite little intellectual histories, "The History of the Atom in Western Thought" (Pullman). Just when people thought they knew the fundamental building blocks of things, they tended to find out that there another "turtle" beneath the prior one. And of course the "porousness" of a world of atoms is something we all find intuitively hard to accept, but is scientifically irrefutable. Both Klinkenborg’s musings and your article remind me of one of my favorite little intellectual histories, “The History of the Atom in Western Thought” (Pullman). Just when people thought they knew the fundamental building blocks of things, they tended to find out that there another “turtle” beneath the prior one. And of course the “porousness” of a world of atoms is something we all find intuitively hard to accept, but is scientifically irrefutable.

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