Notices by George Dyson (gdyson@sciencemastodon.com)

Reminder from History: Nuclear war on the ground in Europe was a real threat reinforced by deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in large numbers by both sides. With the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited the third-largest nuclear arsenal on planet Earth. Those weapons were decommissioned with bilateral cooperation and the assurance of US support. This was one of the greatest advances in global security in history and only a complete fool would now complain about the cost. [Graphics: 1953]

"I felt I would be ready to go to jail for him any time."

-- Freeman Dyson on Martin Luther King, 28 August 1963.

Authors love to hear from readers (or, these days, listeners) but when it's a reader *and* a listener, and the listener is a donkey, that's as good as it gets.

Lily reading Turing's Cathedral to Howard, June 2012 (photo & thanks: Roy Christopher).

“We are not scanning all those books to be read by people. We are scanning them to be read by an A.I.” -- Anonymous Source at Google, 24 October 2005.