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Category Archives: Science
SLS & Colloquia & The Obvious, R.D. Laing
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.laingsociety.org/biblio/theobvious.rdlaing.htm I started to try to see through the dense opacity of social events from the study of certain people who were labelled psychotic or neurotic, as seen in mental hospitals, psychiatric units and out-patient clinics. … Continue reading
Chuang Tzus Chaos Linguistics
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/chuang_tzu_linguistics.html From the page: “Thus, beginning with total linguistic relativism, Chuang Tzu ends with a sort of metalinguistics. Spillover words do not ward and sector, They play. They contain more than they contain – therefore, like … Continue reading
Math Games: Evil Numbers
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_10_04_04.html From the page: “Evil numbers are easy to find, as one might expect with an arbitrarily defined property. Interestingly, π is doubly evil. Many numbers aren’t evil. For example, e isn’t evil. The important sums … Continue reading
Robin Dunbar and the Magic Number of 150
Stumbleupon Review of : http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2003/01/01/robinDunbarAndTheMagicNumberOf150.html From the page: “The Magic of 150 Your brain is hard wired to pay attention to about 150 people. Try to have a relationship with any more than that, and your life will turn to … Continue reading
Elman Service – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elman_Service We are accustomed, because of the nature of our own economy, to think that human beings have a “natural propensity to truck and barter,” and that economic relations among individuals or groups are characterised by … Continue reading
Sounding Circle: The Washington Posts Mensa Invitational
Stumbleupon Review of : http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000817.htm The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s … Continue reading
YouTube – Look Around You – 5 – Sulphur
Stumbleupon Review of : http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=v4rb869zn2 …or other things Sulphur – When most people think of Sulphur they think of Satanism, and quite probably that notable quote from famous satanist drag queen Anton Szandor LaVey : “How could you set yourself … Continue reading
YouTube – A Protein Primer (Part 2)
Stumbleupon Review of : http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=uns651fsgh Best science class, evah!
YouTube – Look Around You – 5 – Sulphur
Stumbleupon Review of : http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=v4rb869zn2 …or other things Sulphur – When most people think of Sulphur they think of Satanism, and quite probably that notable quote from famous satanist drag queen Anton Szandor LaVey : “How could you set yourself … Continue reading
Shimon Edelmans Experimental Epistemology Project
Stumbleupon Review of : http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman/