Extra Material
From time to time I write something that might be useful or interesting to
other people, but which doesn't fit into my regular Web organisation and does
not seem suitable for publication elsewhere. This material will be added here on
an occasional basis.
This was only started on 25 July 2000, so it will be a while before there is
much material here.
Some other material that I have written is included in the section of this
web site called "Notions",
consisting mainly of short essays on ecology and related subjects that have not
been expanded into articles or research papers.
Contents
 | A table of USA Social Security Benefits that can be
used in planning what is the best age to retire. |
| A nefarious document called The Purple Paper
which mysteriously appeared in the Brown University Physics Department
during my graduate study there. It was called The Purple Paper because it
was reproduced by a process using purple ink referred to as hectography.
Neither I nor my good friend J. S. have any idea where this came from, as I
told the Chairman of the Physics Department when he came in at the end of my
PhD defense and demanded, "One final question, Silvert - who wrote The
Purple Paper?" |
| In memory of my grandparents, who fled oppression in Eastern Europe at the
beginning of the twentieth century and came to this Goldene Medina,
the New World, by way of Ellis Island, I include Emma Lazarus' poem The
New Colossus which is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty
in New York harbor. |
| Another poem, this time one that I wrote. It is in Russian, and is called Приглашение,
meaning Invitation. I wrote it when I was invited to a very cosmopolitan
party at which we were all expected to recite poetry in some language other
than English or French! |
| A practical note on how to deal with and possibly reduce
the size of the bloated documents produced by Microsoft Word. |
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