http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn Science 'n stuff. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:01:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A long long time ago I discovered Project Euler, a competition of sorts where the goal is to solve numerous mathematical puzzles with the aid of a computer. I originally thought it to be too difficult, but recently I revisited the site and discovered that I could actually solve the ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/07/18/project-euler/ I recently announced that I was attempting to read the Bible. Progress has been slow; however, I have purchased an NIV Study Bible which should make things easier by virtue of being a more modern (and more readable) translation with handy footnotes. The amount of violence and gore has frankly shocked ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/07/03/bible-reading-progress/ Back in November 2007 we had 5,977 posts made on SFN during the entire month. Not bad, although at our peak in May 2005 we had 12,000. Well, I just checked the numbers, and in the last month we had 7,521 posts. We're making definite progress. Our goal now is to ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/06/29/progress-is-being-made/ Why do You make so many of Your followers so intolerant and hating, and yet make so many more so loving and kind? It makes it so difficult to make sweeping generalizations! http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/06/27/dear-lord/ This summer I thought it would be an interesting project to sit down and read the Bible cover to cover. (Perhaps later I can tackle the Qur'an.) At the time of righting I'm on Numbers 20 (page 170 out of 1217) and generally learning a lot. (The Old Testament God ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/06/23/reading-the-bible/ A long long time ago, a friend and I wrote a document on the science of relationships. It was mostly silly, but it did have one section that wasn't just made up. That section was on the Relationship Uncertainty Principle. The RUP works in a fashion similar to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/05/20/the-relationship-uncertainty-principle/ Can anyone explain to me why people love talking about things like they're experts when they really don't know anything about the subject? Like this guy: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt1Yo610lG0] I'm often asked questions about things that are out of my area of expertise. Rather than make stuff up, like Mr. LHC Guy, I at least ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/05/16/any-psychologists-in-the-house/ I've talked to quite a few people who agree that high school students focus too much on grades and too little on the actual learning -- that students aim to improve their numbers, not their understanding. A good example would be the high school students who take vast numbers of ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/05/06/going-gradeless/ Science is limited by what scientists are capable of measuring. Our understanding of reality can only reach as far as our best experiments. If you were to ask any physicist, they'd tell you that physics stops at what we can measure: beyond that, we reach metaphysics, the land of unfounded ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/04/15/literary-analysis-metaphysics/ I think education needs to take a hint from the Internet. Peer-to-peer communication, using protocols like BitTorrent, forms a significant share of all of the traffic on the Internet. No longer is the Internet a simple client-server model -- content can be shared from user to user. How does that relate ... http://blogs.scienceforums.net/capn/2008/04/10/p2p-learning/