Category: Truth
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The truth. NOT as 1+1=2… [Pythagoras, Hippasus, Silence]
Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests. The study, published in the New Journal of Physics, shows that physicists pay less attention to theories that are crammed with mathematical details. This suggests there are real and widespread barriers to communicating mathematical work, and that this is not because…
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The new. The old. Selecting. Living true.
As contributors to businesses, sports teams, or governments, most of us take part in some sort of group problem solving. But what is the best way to collaborate on a difficult problem like developing a budget or designing a new product? Past research on collective problem solving has come to conflicting conclusions. Some studies have…
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Paley, Darwin, the interconnection of ideas, Truth...
William Paley is a 19th-century theologian best known today for his argument supporting intelligent design: Something as complex as a mechanical watch clearly would not exist without a creator. Thus we can infer that the intricacy of our bodies — and those of all creatures — is the work of God. One might be surprised…
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Good books. Bad books. Hidden truth...
Good books are sold to fewer people than the best selling books-for-the-masses and are, thus, more easily sold out. [e.g. "Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method" from Henry Bauer] (1) OR they are so hard-to-sell that they are extremely expensive to buy [e.g. "Types, Tableaus, and Gödel’s God" from Gödel]. (2)…
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