It sounds "Zen" doesn't it? Or even a hint of "Cargo Cult Science," like psychology. The Lost Art of Finding Our Way is neither. Rather, it is a mathematical and scientific exposition on the basis of navigation, meteorology, and astrophysics as humanity has developed them. If you do not understand trigonometry, this is not the …
王贞仪 老师 Wáng Zhēnyí Laoshí 王貞儀 老师 – Our Logo
Wáng Zhēnyí Laoshí (age of 21 years) at the board erasing her lesson. "It's made to believe, Women are the same as Men; Are you not convinced, Daughters can also be Heroic?" - in a poem by Wang Zhenyi Who is 王贞仪 [ 王貞儀 ] Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797 C.E.)? She was born into a middle class scholar …
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What I learned by climbing Mount Si.
"In the legends of the Snoqualmie people, Mount Si was the body of the moon, Snoqualm, fallen to earth through the trickery of the fox and the blue jay. The mountain more than lives up to this otherworldly tale." - Washington Trails Association Unlike many 1300+ metre climbs in the Pacific Northwest, it …
Giudicare cos’è la scienza e la cultura e cosa è Cargo Cult * (dialecte google)
Sorry! We need an Italian translator. Volunteers? Walter Bonatti (R.I.P.) siede con un vassoio per il pranzo in ginocchio, mentre parla e gesticola; è tornato dalla scalata di Pointe Whymper a Grandes Jorasses, con l'alpinista svizzero Michel Vaucher. Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc (Francia), A.D. 1964. Scienza e cultura - Walter Bonatti (R.I.P.) 1930-2011 Come Bonatti …
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La petite terreur et la Grande Terreur: la Physique est facile fermer et local (patois google)
[Sorry! Our official French translator - Gilles Labruyère - is off this week. Anyone know Scientific French? Google does not!] Deux règnes de la terreur de "Un Connecticut Yankee dans la Cour du Roi Arthur" par Mark Twain comme la citation dans cet article de l'Atlantique comme écrit par Ta-Nehisi Coates, AUG 25, 2011: 'That Older …
18 Brumaire VIII
Two Reigns of Terror from "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain as quote in this article from The Atlantic as authored by Ta-Nehisi Coates, AUG 25, 2011: 'That Older and Real Terror' That Older and Real Terror and The Civil War isn't Tragic Hmmm. I do not understand this number or name or their …
Judging what is Science and Culture, and what is Cargo Cult*
This photo supplied by Elon Musk's 'The Boring Company' (a mimicry of words that portrays it as something different. As an engineering and scientific research firm, like The Boeing Company, to news media). On the English QWERTY keypad they seem "quite close". E next to R . We use this photo without permission. It is …
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When will science and not timetables, promises, and investments in Ponzie-type schemes take precedent?
SPACEX and ROCKET TECHNOLOGY: Concerns at NASA over the astronauts' safety hit a high point when, in September 2016, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blew up while it was being fueled ahead of an engine test. No one was hurt, but the payload, a multimillion-dollar satellite, was lost. The question on many people's minds at NASA …
Watch ARRIVAL tonight with your S.O. and Chiang Feng-nan [姜峯楠]
Ted Chiang [Chiang Feng-nan 姜峯楠] had the insight to write the screenplay and the science fiction basis of the movie ARRIVAL. Ted Chiang ahead of his spacetime
The Contributions of LaGrange and Gauss to GEORG BERNHARD REIMANN
The Google Doodle on the 241st anniversary of Gauss' birth If we look at mathematics as a process in motion - like calculus itself - we can see the development from LaGrange's thinking and outcomes directly to Gauss. It seems almost inevitable that a "Field Theory" would develop for electrostatics. Not so fast, you might …
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