TheCuriousReader

Please have a look at the World Community Grid project, which is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid If you like the idea of the World Community Grid then please register there.

I consider the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011" (PIPA) to restrict my rights on the freedom of speech. Other people share the same concerns: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act#Civil_liberties_issues A user on deviantART named DavinSunrider988 made an excellent journal entry about SOPA/PIPA. Here's his journal entry: http://davinsunrider988.deviantart.com/journal/SOPA-280151834 As I said in a comment there. Please make similar journal entries on your deviantART accounts and link your entry either to his journal entry or to oth

Strange ... aren't there any pictures about Dr. Perelman here on deviantART which really give him the credit he deserves? Why do so many people want to make fun of him anyway? (I mean mostly on other sites, not here, to be fair.) Is it some kind of primitive ancient human instinct to laugh about or  - even worse - sometimes destroy what we don't understand? Or perhaps it is some kind of hatred of mathematics or science in general? Without science the Internet and many other technologies would not exist. Then why do we laugh about a person like Perelman, a man of science? Shouldn't we honor him instead with pictures similar to this: http://ar