math analogies for non-math people
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On ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and whether or not it’s sci-fi.
The science is realistic, but, more importantly, the science doesn’t matter. The story is about people. Oh, and, the world ends. Whatever.
Cat’s Cradle, catalysis, classics, energy barriers, fate of the universe, ice-9, Kurt Vonnegut, literary fiction, mad cow disease, math analogies for non-math people, Pages to Prisoners, prions, qwerty keyboards, resistance to change, sci-fi, science fiction, science versus philosophy, speculative fiction, the big freeze, the meaning of life is protein?, the stickiness of bad ideas, thermodynamics, transition-state energy
