Learning
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The graph for everything
I often repeat myself, I know this. I am going to return to a thing I have blah’d on about more than once. The reason is that I think (yes me, that ego), there is a lot more to it than initially surmised. In question we have my absolute fav, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a scientific Continue reading
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Revisiting mistruths
Every philosopher is on a quest to write something that changes the way the person who reads it thinks, a search for some compelling argument. Not truth as we might contend, persuasion would be a better term. What is verifiable through testing is scientific fact, those are not arguable in the same way as the Continue reading
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A very big picture, painted with a very small brush
Why are we all scared? Statistically we are safer than we have ever been. Pinker wrote the book “the better angels of our nature”, in it he claims that research has shown that this era is less violent, less cruel, and more peaceful than any period in history. Walking with my fiancé we discussed the Continue reading
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A writing wish
If there is one TV series I wish I’d written it would be black mirror, it’s just so fudging clever. Most Sci-fi and fantasy, not sure this is the correct genre, postulates the idea of an alternative, a future trajectory, a misunderstood past event, or a clean slate after a disaster. Some imagine myths, some Continue reading
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Encourage the rebels
The path to greatness is not followed by staying within the lines with your crayons, EVERY intellectual and EVERY scientist and EVERY artist we know by name or reputation got to their position of greatness by being a rebel, dissatisfied, frustrated, and belligerent. So if your child disagrees with their tutors, or you, or even Continue reading
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The limits of your experience
We each are limited by what we know, but do we have to be? If I pose you a problem you will try to solve it, of course you will, we are humans and we are good at that sort of thing, each person thinks they are anyways. Unfortunately though, there are many amongst us Continue reading
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Ordinary wonders
Our Mr Dracula describes the now to an ordinary citizen that he has invaded the house of. She thinks her home is a dump, he considers it a palace compared to the things he has seen in the past. “I knew the future would bring wonders, I did not know it would make them ordinary” Continue reading
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Experimenting with echoes
Recently I have been conducting a highly scientific experiment on the power of suggestion. I have been repeating a phrase over and over, not repetitively but just when I can find a way to squeeze it in, to two children that a good friend of mine is related to. Let’s call them Fuzz and Rona Continue reading
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Banter training
“Banter training” my pal tells me, that’s what’s going on in his workplace now. Holy fudge what an notion. Let’s destroy it.. Right, firstly we can easily dismiss the idea that ‘banter’ is something that can be defined. That a person can draw a line in the sand that says “this is banter up to Continue reading
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Correct, yet stupidly
If you arrive at the same conclusion, but you use reasoning to get there, as someone else who arrives there by prejudice or a ridiculous theory, then your conclusion is more valid, even though it has the same solidity. Now that is a strange thing to say, almost that one person can be more correct Continue reading
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