Posts Tagged ‘ ideas ’

10% of our brains…

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July 3, 2011

I find that psychology, the history of how psychology got where it is, and how experiments are created in this endeavor to be interesting (this article is no exception), but there is an added layer to this post which is also worth considering. The phrase: “we only use 10% of our brains” is so deeply [...]


SETI

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July 1, 2011

SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) not the Egyptian Pharaoh has been an on and off again screen saver on a variety of my computers for years. It seems that the vast majority of their funding has been cut, and I found that they are attempting to crowdsource some interim operating funds. It seems to [...]


What is our biggest achievement?

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June 28, 2011
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This is a fascinating topic: “what is the greatest human achievement?” The most obvious answers have changed over the years (an interesting and enlightening topic in itself). In the 19th century (and many others, for that matter), human achievement was seen, most obviously, as the physical achievements of groups of humans (i.e. the Great Wall [...]


the Turing test

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March 7, 2011

Alan Turing and Johnny von Neuman are the most likely fathers of the computer… Turing had a famous and rather elegant experiment with which to test to see if a computer was as intelligent as a human…the Turing test. This test was simply to have someone sit at a terminal (in the 50’s it would [...]


Orwell and Huxley

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March 7, 2011

The other day I ran across a wonderful site which used graphics (i.e. cartoon drawings) to explain the differences between what George Orwell and Aldous Huxley were presenting as themes in their (respective) great novels: 1984 and Brave New World. In a nutshell, Orwell presented one dystopian future (the present?) as a world where monolithic, [...]


different ways to provoke thoughts

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October 11, 2010

When confronted with the banality of most of Facebook, Twitter…OK, almost all social networking, as well as online commerce sites, it’s nice to see that there are a few sites which are a huge source for thought provoking ideas, and imagination. Of course, I am talking about such sites as TED, and some others such [...]


social engineering…

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September 3, 2010

From my situation regarding the teaching business, I have been a student for well over forty years (ahem…maybe more than a few…), and as a teacher I currently have the opportunity to look over (via my memory) the various teaching methods, lessons and curricula which I have been subjected to. Since the early 1960’s there [...]


Keynesian Economics

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August 4, 2010

It goes without saying that we are in the midst of an economic downturn (understatement alarm!). If you read the news you would see that there is a lot of coverage about the nature of the economy as well as the efforts of the current administration to address these woes. There is also a lot [...]


Post modernism (and the Gutenberg Parenthesis)

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August 3, 2010

This week’s attempt by me to look over some of the big ideas which float at the periphery of our world start with one of the bigger ideas (big in the sense that it has more influence over your life than you would believe…). Postmodernism is a concept I had thrust in my face when [...]


big ideas

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August 2, 2010

For whatever reason, the thought of thinking and posting something about ideas came to me today. We all have ideas, but some are bigger than others. For instance, I certainly don’t consider myself enough of an adept to discuss something like string theory on this blog (or anywhere else for that matter…). For me this [...]


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