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chapman-smith-mbiarch asked: could you draw me a crumple? I'd like to see.
May 2010
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Reinventing The Wheel
I just found this in somebody’s* facebook profile:
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” —George Bernard Shaw
And once again, I’m experiencing that strange tense mix of pride and disappointment that I’ll feel whenever I realize that something I’ve figured out on my own had been noticed by some famous guy long ago.
*(If...
How to Create a Universe, And for What
Are you creative?
Sort of.
Create me a universe!
Oh, that’s easy. LET THERE BE A UNIVERSE.
So… where’s your universe?
Right next to ours.
C’mon; anyone could claim that.
Yes. And anyone could be right.
It’s not verifiable.
You didn’t say, “Create a verifiable universe”. Besides, it’s not my fault that your sciences are so primitive. I...
realcleverscience:
“Is no one inspired by our present picture of the universe? This value of science remains unsung by singers: You are reduced to hearing not a song or poem, but an evening lecture about it. This is not yet a scientific age.”
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- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, pg. 360, quoting Richard Feynman
Mr. Feynman, the time has come:
GRAND UNIFICATION This is just a rule; strings that...
April 2010
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Self-reference →
Google Translate translates an article on Google Translate. From German.
March 2010
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The Wonderful World of Amalia Bovine ll
Natural born chillers
realcleverscience:
“Happy Pi Day Everybody!”
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As a somewhat related aside, I’ve been arguing with friends about why wheels roll easier than, say, cubes. If you have an explanation, please feel free to send it on over!
p.s. I love questions that make you rethink fundamental assumptions. The rolling wheel question has evoked a lot of rolling eyes, but after trying to answer in a...
Loveables
Pascal. Friend.
Pascal was a maker. A welder, a mechanic, a bike builder. He’d make things at work, come home, go to his private garage, and make more things. And just as natural as making things was to him, was making friends. And making things for friends. At times he complained that he couldn’t make enough things because there was always someone around, listening to his elaborate...
For What's a Man?
Who am I?
A lot of people seem to be puzzled by the question who they are. Well - who or what, do you think, determines that? Your genes? Your environment? You’re the product of nature and nurture? If so, then why even bother? Why not just be there as whatever you happen to be, like a squirrel, a rock, or a quark?
Many, if not most, people indeed seem to be living their lives like that, at...
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The Wonderful World of Amalia Bovine
A matter of taste