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Stephen Hawking PhD's Popularity Crashes Cambridge University Website

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Since Cambridge can't figure out file distribution, I've created a torrent for this:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e440904440e9b45def54d83037b522edaace226b&dn=PR-PHD-05437%5FCUDL2017-reduced.pdf&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

Please be nice and continue seeding.

Will let the client continue to seed once it's done downloading. Thanks for posting.

And if you don't use torrent all that much, yup, you copy that whole paragraph of glyphs as-is and paste it into the appropriate text box of your torrent client. (I initially saw the "...tracker.org" part and thought maybe it was two addresses that needed an extra line feed. Nope.)

Since we seem at the moment to be unable to actually get to the link, I can't ask how accessible it might be. IOW, can an idiot like me begin to make any sense of it? For now, I'll default to "no".

In the mean time, while we wait for the link to get mirrored or beefed up, I'd like to note that I'm impressed that a guy who was given two years to live in 1963 is still going. Probably luck more than anything, but the odds are good that Hawking has outlived the doctor(s) that diagnosed him.

It will probably be a no for me as well. I read “on the shoulders of giants”[1] a few years ago and despite it being for a less super educated audience I was head scratching a few times.

I just finished “astrophysics for people in a hurry“[2]. It was an awesome quick read.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Shoulders-Giants-Nicolaus-Copernicus/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Ty...

I mirrored the file at http://ul.to/w9qk8fhh

md5sum 83588bfb709f5fc548ef8fcc3bdaf459

I was going to post the link[1] but it was down every time I checked over the last hour or so.

[1] https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251038

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