Here’s the place.
keywords: query, help

Just because something comes from a book doesn’t mean it’s classroom-worthy.
keywords: Education

What topic in Mathematics does any given sport most match up with? It seems to me, for example, that baseball matches up with the theory of congruences.
keywords: analogy

1/x can be interpreted as the amount of wait time (the time you are poised to react) before a window of size x.
keywords: General Systems Theory, Life, hyperbola, hyperbolic metric

Definition. A metabolic process is a process whose values are strictly positive, but below a very low threshold (i.e., infinitesimal).
Survival depends on having at least one metabolic process. In other words, death occurs upon cessation of all metabolic processes.
cf: “The worst mistake you can make is to do nothing because you can only do a little.”
keywords: General Systems Theory, Life

Without publication, you degenerate to playing in traffic.
You can access reality beyond your sensory radius only via literature (in particular, mappings and databases).
cf: “If you want to lead a peaceful life, you have to write a book.”
The principle “Publish or perish.” applies at all levels of scale, not just to the individual. For example, the expulsion of the Jews from Nazi Germany (indeed, the rise of Nazi Germany itself) was at its base the default form of a document-creation process. Progress demands a quota of document-creation per unit time, and so one way of viewing history is as the increasing frequency and sophistication of document-creation.
keywords: standard of living, wealth, well-being

Here’s the scoop.

by Martin Gardner
This book is available from Amazon, here.
The full text is also available from Internet Archive, here.
keywords: classic puzzles, paradoxes, problems

It may be because the breaker switch has been tripped. Coming on causes a millisecond amp spike that may or may not trip the breaker. There is an optional ‘starter kit’ that can be installed in the a/c unit that will prevent that millisecond surge from being sent to the breaker box.
keywords: air conditioning, electrical problem, cooling, installation

The purpose of religion is to prepare you for spirituality.
cf:
Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell.
Spirituality is for those who have already been there.
also, cf:
“He who possess art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
— Goethe