Well said. It seems fairly obvious that the more people we have, the more outliers we'll have, and the more global and accessible our communications and media become, the more we'll hear about them. Thus, it will appear as if the world is getting weirder and people crazier, when maybe it's just getting more populated and interconnected.
Personally, I would recommend the print edition of the onion. You can't beat it for ease on the eyes, it's much easier to scan through, you get more content, and you can actually contribute a little to the authors in a less roundabout way than giving advertisers some of your brain time.
Do you have discussion sections for these classes? At my university (I study engineering at UCSD) , that's where the specific problem-solving is done. The grad students teaching the sections are often better at this than the professors, who have forgotten the banal minutiae of actually getting the answer correct. Personally, I prefer to have the professor spend his or her time covering the ideas behind the problems, as those are the things you're really going to benefit from remembering years from now.
Look straight at the moon, and then out of the corner of your eye. It looks smaller when not perceived directly. A similar phenomenon can be observed when you photograph the moon. Seeing as the moon has been around for our entire evolution, it's hardl unreasonable that we would have some strange optical processes when looking at it.
I'd say the easiest explanation is that as the existing fields of research get deeper and deeper, it simply takes longer to get to the cutting edge. During the renaissance, someone like Leonardo could be on the cutting edge of dozens of fields, whereas today, in a field like mathematics or physics, the sheer amount of back-reading you have to do will take you well into your twenties. An interesting question is whether human potential for discovery is ultimately going to be limited by our lifespan or the fact that we 'peak' during our twenties.
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Well said. It seems fairly obvious that the more people we have, the more outliers we'll have, and the more global and accessible our communications and media become, the more we'll hear about them. Thus, it will appear as if the world is getting weirder and people crazier, when maybe it's just getting more populated and interconnected.
Personally, whenever I experience deja vú it's mostly related to non-visual stimuli.
..those quotes weren't in the title...
"High court takes Bong Hits for Jesus case"
I'm pretty sure he got at least $0.01. $0 probably doesn't qualify as a settlement.
Check out the optical illusion in the diagram for step 3.
I thought it was more that all state vectors were mapped into an isomorphic "goatee space".
Personally, I would recommend the print edition of the onion. You can't beat it for ease on the eyes, it's much easier to scan through, you get more content, and you can actually contribute a little to the authors in a less roundabout way than giving advertisers some of your brain time.
Do you have discussion sections for these classes? At my university (I study engineering at UCSD) , that's where the specific problem-solving is done. The grad students teaching the sections are often better at this than the professors, who have forgotten the banal minutiae of actually getting the answer correct. Personally, I prefer to have the professor spend his or her time covering the ideas behind the problems, as those are the things you're really going to benefit from remembering years from now.
Years from now, Anthropologists will have heated debates over the sudden rise of the space-pioneering Jablome dynasty.
I did, actually. And who wouldn't enjoy such a non-obtrusive, text-only universe?
I think it's easier to start off with the more accessible OK Computer Laptop.
Look straight at the moon, and then out of the corner of your eye. It looks smaller when not perceived directly. A similar phenomenon can be observed when you photograph the moon. Seeing as the moon has been around for our entire evolution, it's hardl unreasonable that we would have some strange optical processes when looking at it.
I'd say the easiest explanation is that as the existing fields of research get deeper and deeper, it simply takes longer to get to the cutting edge. During the renaissance, someone like Leonardo could be on the cutting edge of dozens of fields, whereas today, in a field like mathematics or physics, the sheer amount of back-reading you have to do will take you well into your twenties. An interesting question is whether human potential for discovery is ultimately going to be limited by our lifespan or the fact that we 'peak' during our twenties.
Off topic, but where does your sig come from? It's funny in it's own right, but is it a reference to something? Math geeks gotta know.
Perhaps I should have made the Monty Python joke more explicit.
Who are the Britons?!
Did you even see The Matrix? ;D