Philosophy
There's a line from a Radiators' song "Give me a rainbow that's for real" that leads to the question, "Are rainbows real?" Are rainbows things or are they illusions? Can X be an illusion if any competent observer would observe X?
- Real Advice For Graduates
Graduation addresses are so full of cliches and standard aphoristic approaches that they give no real sense of the real world for those about to enter it. So, from those who have been there, what real advice would you give to graduates?...
- Einstein Mask Optical Illusion
In our everyday experience, it seems as though perception is simply a matter of information hitting your sense organs and going straight to our brain. In reality, however, perception turns out to be an incredibly sophisticated and complex concatenation...
- Mr. Wizard To Walter Lewin
"Walter Lewin is 'hands on' helping students grasp physics" Whether it's swinging on a pendulum or riding a rocket tricycle, the former MIT professor, now on YouTube, finds different ways to assist students as they study the laws of physics....
- "for The Love Of Physics..."--book Review
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics by Walter Lewin Warren Goldstein [Contributor] ISBN-10: 1439108277 ISBN-13: 978-1439108277 "Book review: 'For the Love of Physics'"...
- S. Hawking...why There Is Something, Not Nothing
or "Father Raymond J. de Souza: Why there is something, not nothing" by Father Raymond J. de Souza June 10th, 2010 The National Post Stephen Hawking, the biggest brain among the big brains of physics, took the star turn here for the recent World...
Philosophy
The Metaphysics of Rainbows
There's a line from a Radiators' song "Give me a rainbow that's for real" that leads to the question, "Are rainbows real?" Are rainbows things or are they illusions? Can X be an illusion if any competent observer would observe X?
- Real Advice For Graduates
Graduation addresses are so full of cliches and standard aphoristic approaches that they give no real sense of the real world for those about to enter it. So, from those who have been there, what real advice would you give to graduates?...
- Einstein Mask Optical Illusion
In our everyday experience, it seems as though perception is simply a matter of information hitting your sense organs and going straight to our brain. In reality, however, perception turns out to be an incredibly sophisticated and complex concatenation...
- Mr. Wizard To Walter Lewin
"Walter Lewin is 'hands on' helping students grasp physics" Whether it's swinging on a pendulum or riding a rocket tricycle, the former MIT professor, now on YouTube, finds different ways to assist students as they study the laws of physics....
- "for The Love Of Physics..."--book Review
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics by Walter Lewin Warren Goldstein [Contributor] ISBN-10: 1439108277 ISBN-13: 978-1439108277 "Book review: 'For the Love of Physics'"...
- S. Hawking...why There Is Something, Not Nothing
or "Father Raymond J. de Souza: Why there is something, not nothing" by Father Raymond J. de Souza June 10th, 2010 The National Post Stephen Hawking, the biggest brain among the big brains of physics, took the star turn here for the recent World...