Keywords: Chaos/Complexity, Literature, Spirituality, Arts
Holophonics™, by inventor Hugo Zuccarelli is the aural equivalent of visual holography, a technology with the capacity to record sound exactly as it is. Spatial dimension, ambience, emotion, and the living spirit of the source are presented in such a...
Lateral thinking problems that are stranger than fiction.
You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your b...
Cheap and gripping demonstration of chaotic behavior (Univ. Sydney, School of Physics, ground floor corridor)
Some time ago I received a call from a colleague, who asked if I would be the referee on the grading of an examination question. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed he should receiv...
Consider flipping a coin 50 times to obtain the binary string 000101000001010100010000010101000100000001010000010. Can we call this random? The string has rather an abundance of 0s, and on closer inspection every other bit is 0. We wouldn't expect ev...
That we do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. ~ in Collected Essays Under favorable conditions, practically everybody can be