2006-05-25

How to get an A on my evil physics final

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The action is disgustingly simple. The reason is remarkably complex. Take off your socks and shoes, and spray just a light mist from the spr...
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2006-05-12

According to the Harvard Implicit Association Tests...

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(You should try these as well: http://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/) Evidently I have (possible psychological explanations in parens): Litt...
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I don't enjoy eating anymore.

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Except chocolate, of course, but I can't always be eating chocolate, now can I? Maybe it's just a transition phase, but eating has b...
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2006-05-10

A parable of consciousness

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The subjective nature of consciousness makes it a very slippery thing. One could imagine a Chinese-Room Machine which reads inputs and produ...
2006-05-09

And now I show my true allegiance...

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It seems that once The Math Underground (http://math.communityhigh.org/) was created, I had much less need to blog here. I've written th...
2006-05-08

No comments...

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Maybe I should go back to my other blogsites? I feel like the Xanga types would have commented at some point.
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It's worse than I could ever have imagined.

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850,000 abortions in the US each year--not counting four states, incl. CA. (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0764203.html) The reasons? 4% for...

So they do negotiate!

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A week late and several thousand short, but maybe it's the thought that counts. Just got a notice from Columbia that upon request my gra...
2006-05-07

Rethinking sexual orientation

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I read an article some time ago that challenged some of the usual concepts of sexual orientation. After careful observation of some escapade...
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Symptoms

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Years ago ("back in the day" as they say), people got sick with "fever," died of "fever." No one could be sure...
2006-05-05

More on the ob versus sub

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My concepts of objective and subjective can be extended. In fact, given these careful distinctions, we come upon a very interesting developm...
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I was underwhelmed by Crash.

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Crash was supposed to be Best Picture material, but after finally watching it tonight, I wasn't that impressed. If real racism were tha...

An awesome logical paradox!

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Read about this the other day. Intriguingly, it relates to what I was talking about in the last entry on choice. Here goes. Consider this st...
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