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Mari Vanna
“Is there good Russian food? Yeah, I like Mari Vanna, which is a restaurant on East 21st, I think.”
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“Is there good Russian food? Yeah, I like Mari Vanna, which is a restaurant on East 21st, I think.”
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01 / evaluation
“All the countries that joined NATO — without exception — asked to join NATO, begged to join NATO, because they wanted to have protection against Russia, which had colonized them and of which they had good reason to suspect might want to colonize them again, and so they wanted to be a part of NATO.”
02 / evaluation
“It was part of the system. Whether it matters for math, we don’t know. But we know that the extraordinary Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, who designed the Soviet mathematics education system — he had this idea that it had to be what he imagined Greek schools to have been like.”
03 / evaluation
“But then I ended up deciding to just have the mastectomy. But one of the things I realized — and this is just a small illustration of people’s heuristics — I realized that doctors were pushing women to have oophorectomies, the removal of the ovaries, and not mastectomies because an oophorectomy is a very easy surgery, and you cannot see outward expressions of it.”
04 / evaluation
“I don’t think Nobel Prizes are a great way to measure it because a lot of people come to the United States to do research in university settings and end up winning Nobel Prizes.”
05 / evaluation
“” Perelman was the first person that I wrote a book about who didn’t talk to me, and Putin was the second. It was the sense of meeting a character from your book because the experience of writing nonfiction isn’t that different from writing fiction, in the sense that you have all this available information.”