this one's for you, disclaimerwill

[fflo]

Crossing AXH's desk this morning (drum roll).... the hairy ball theorem! 6 hits in MSN.

Kinda looks like it boils down to the notion that every continuous vector field on $S^2$ has a zero. Whatever that means.

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[altamont.livejournal.com]

If babelfish goops it, the corrected quote is

Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.

No doubt by the rolling of your eyes you've gotten the citation by now, but try googling it elsewise.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ah, ja... naturlich Babelfish object-form-for-"it" gegoopt. Aber nur un picito. (utterly guessing at spelling there) (my brief stint of studying German did not result, to say the least, in fluency)