Epstein Secrets

illness and creativity went hand in hand. This link is not surprising. The archetype of the mad genius dates back to at least classical times, when Aristotle noted, "Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia." This pattern is a re

riting program in the United States (UNESCO has designated Iowa City as one of its seven "Cities of Literature," along with the likes of Dublin and Edinburgh). Thanks to my time in the university's English department, I was able to recruit study subjects from the workshop's ranks of distinguished permane

an when he was 60 years old. He’d had an astonishing life until then, of course. He’d been taught by Socrates and, in turn, had sharpened the mind of Aristotle. He’d established his famous Academy in Athens. The puzzles of philosophy and politics that defined his city’s most turbulent era had been the work o

arvey renamed it as “Space Time Compression,” which is more commonly used today. 197 Absolute speed: See Armitage, John, Ed. The Virilio Dictionary (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013) 136 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018368 Janelle published his first paper on space-time compression in 1965 in the pages of

in the same sense as Galileo, if by this term one describes those who tear down the dictates of the authorities who came before, as Galileo had for Aristotle. Einstein did just the opposite. He knew that rules that had been established on the basis of experiment could not easily be tossed aside, and it w

ne of the dumbest aca- demic decisions ever made (and that is a tough list to top), Maxwell was unceremoniously laid off. He tried to get a chair in Edinburgh, but again the position was given to another candidate. Finally, he found a position down south, at King's College, London. One might expect Maxwe