AI's Popovianism here has reminded me of the link above once sent me by AI himself. AA and MFT might find it particularly amusing as they are enthusiasts in the field of History and Bullshit. Here's the YouTube version and here in mathematische kunstler fassung. Steyn-Fallaci have some words for Popov as well. Who knew it was Christmas today?
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JJ: you bring together several interesting strands here. We need to analyze all this in more detail, methodically, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Fomenko is clearly in dire need for his meds. Have you ever seen his math drawings? (He has a book just with that.) Dali meets Bourbaki.
There is another strand I need to throw in the mix: who really invented insulin? I had a heated debate abouth that with a good canuck friend of mine back in Bezerkeley. You may recall I called you up in the middle of the debate (conducted on a Thai terrace at Shattuck & Cedar, if you know where that is) for some moral support, but you did not offer any, for crying out loud!
The drawings are linked to, AI, in the post. I am no expert on insulin other than knowing that it comes from the Isles of Langerhans.
Since 'Langerhans' doesn't end in 'u' I figure these are not islands off the Danube's delta in the Euxine.
Best I can do, bud.
Get a lawyer.
You're wrong, JJ, and I'll prove it to you! OK, how many VCPs are riding on this one? I need a firm commitment before embarking on this epic new struggle. Since the VCP tab is getting to be more mythical than real, we need to start a new one. What liquid do you propose? Let's not deal in ouzo.
Wrong about what?
Well, OK, I forgot about the drawing in the post -- but that's because it's such a standard drawing. The ones I had in mind (in the Daliesque vein) are something else.
As for being wrong: about who invented insulin.
Everyone knows Al Gore invented insulin just before he invented the internet.
I haven't had time to give the actual manuscript of English history a going over, but I'm wondering if you guys saw him reference Bede. I'll run this by a Medievalist as well.
mft
" and here in mathematische kunstler fassung"
Maybe these clicking issues of yours would clear up with text-lighter posts?
As to insulin's discoverer or early synthesizer (not 'inventor' as you say), it would be well for you to confront me with some claim of mine to (attempt to) refute.
I spoke with a Medieval historian, and he said these yokels have been around for years, their theory even longer. No serious publishing house -- academic or otherwise -- has considered their manuscripts, but I've been informed that "the internet has been a godsend for them."
They'd provide an interesting anthropological case study, a sort of social psyche barometer of the larger Russian society (or at least a sub-culture of that the larger Russian society).
One more note: remember JJ: even though you like to click on things, and you like the internet as a source of information, only small amounts of that information tends to be true -- this, of course, not being one of those times (unless you're defending at, say, Berkeley).
I'm going to get back to my bullshit humanities now.
Your bullshit humanities are better than this respected mathematician's humanities.
Shouldn't it be Popoff?
Back to champagne?
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