…eat little tricks. Quicksilver Web Search. After you download Quicksilver (free) and open the preferences window, go to Plug-ins > All Plug-ins, and check the box next to “Web Search Module.” Restart Quicksilver. Go to Catalog, click the “+” at the bottom-left, and select “Web Search List.” A new pane should appear (if not, click the little i), in which you can add any number of web-search shortcuts by clicking the other “+” appearing above “Sourc…
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…s trick is very effective, as long as the author you want is already dead. Download Free Articles from Preprint Servers. Read the almost-ready-for-print version, without paying for it! Physics and mathematics: arxiv.org. Philosophy of Science: philsci-archive.pitt.edu. Download Free Articles from the Author’s Homepage. Did you know that Jeremy Butterfield has dozens of his most recent papers posted on his website? Or that John Norton has written a…
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Nicolas Gisin (and colleagues) have executed an enormous test of the Bell-inequalities! Their experiment will span laboratories in the cities of Geneva, Satigny, and Jussy. I believe that makes it the largest Bell-experiment ever done — the idea being that gravitational effects might have some influence on the measurement problem when there’s a lot of spacelike separation. Gisin first mentioned this idea to us at the New Directions conference in…
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…restricted to Philsci archive. Trust me, this is a real pain-reliever: for example, searching for “van fraassen” returns baloney on Philsci archive’s search engine, while Google returns hundreds of items. For more options, use Google’s advanced search to find what you want. Browse by Category. Only look at the categories you’re interested in. Go to Browse > Subject and select the category you’re interested in. I recommend bookmarking several subje…
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…you can append text to any .TXT file — but only files with that extension. Download the Completed script. Open it with ScriptEditor and set the path to your Completed.txt file. Add the Completed.scpt script to the folder YourUsername/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions. Create this folder if it doesn’t exist yet. And that’s it! As always, be sure to leave your thoughts, ideas or improvements in the comments below. Related Posts: Get st…
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