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If you’re looking for a highly intelligent and sensible discussion about the existence and implications of God in the world from an elite mathematician, then you MUST listen to this.
John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. I would LOVE to see him in debate and dialogue with Richard Dawkins, whose writings to [...]
Filed by ob1 at November 11th, 2009 under church, life, science
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Rack this one up in the “Duh!” category, but it just seems so obvious that a group of over-tired and fatigued people operating in a critical function are going to make serious mistakes. Do they not read some of their own research literature on the effects of sleep deprivation?!
I still do not understand why [...]
Filed by ob1 at September 7th, 2009 under leadership, life, science
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Sometimes you get surprised to find out that things that have become central to certain kinds of evaluations and decision-making are built off completely silly leaps of logic. I was shocked to discover this about the famous “BMI” (Body Mass Index) number that is used worldwide to assess whether someone is in the right [...]
Filed by ob1 at August 7th, 2009 under science
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I think this guy is almost certainly 99.997% on the money…
Filed by ob1 at July 10th, 2009 under science
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“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”
– Fran Lebowitz
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
– Albert Einstein
“In mathematics you don’t understand [...]
Filed by ob1 at July 7th, 2009 under humour, science
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So, I came across this news piece, and not at all sure it makes me feel better about sharks at all…
Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They do not attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.
The sharks hang back [...]
Filed by ob1 at June 25th, 2009 under science
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In the interests of speaking up for Mathematicians the world over who struggle with persecution and scorn, this story represents a real low… a poor old German Mathematican who has been dead 450 years is being hounded for his TV license fees.
Leave the man alone! His only crime was loving algebra…
Actually, Adam Ries was [...]
Filed by ob1 at March 17th, 2009 under humour, life, science
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