One of the advantages of educating yourself is that you follow the trails that others have blazed before you. If you grew up in a forest and never saw a human-made object with a combined total of 180 internal degrees, you’d (rightly) consider yourself a genius if you discovered the existence of a triangle. If you live in a modern society, however, this information is … Continue reading Reverse Prosopagnosia
Mercy, well the past 24 hours have been quite interesting indeed, which wore me out but I’m going to have to leave the details until later. Don’t worry, it’s good stuff! In the meantime, enjoy this picture of a flower that I took back when it was warm. Although this plant has a proper name I call it the “semaphore flower” because it has the … Continue reading Flower and Cat
Well it’s come to my attention that some learnéd fops and big cheeses have been reading some of my posts on Gypsies (if you’re new to my thoughts on the subject, you can start here). I don’t wish to get into that subject today however but I do want to discuss a related topic. Essentially all modern “civilized” thought on Gypsies is that their culture … Continue reading Edumacation
I was reading this article today (in Romanian) and it reminded me of one of this country’s greatest problems: the complete inability to understand the difference between mathematics and economics. I realize a lot of people don’t like numbers and when they see one or two of them together they start to get a headache and their eyes get blurry. Nonetheless, let’s see if we … Continue reading Economics versus Mathematics
You might remember a few days ago I wrote extensively about memory techniques including the “Method of Loci” or the “Memory Palace” technique of Simonides. I was quite shocked but pleased to discover last night that in the second season of the BBC’s modernized television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes that they referenced the memory palace (although they call it the “mind” palace). Since it was … Continue reading Sherlock’s Mind Palace
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