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I’m going to spoil the entire post by prefacing it with, “If you look hard enough, you’ll find what you were after, even if it doesn’t actually exist.” That’s all you really need to know, but I’m far more long-winded than that, so let’s see what I’m talking about. I followed a link over […] July 10th, 2019 | Tags: a mathematician that finds math cool, confirmation bias, Dr Oscar Fernandez, fibonacci sequence, golden mean, golden ratio, hey look this is exactly 10 what are the chances?, imagine that, phi, rule of thirds, symmetry, The Beauty in Numbers and the Numbers in Beauty | Category: Continued from other blogs, Critical Thinking, Nature, Science & Evolution |
 Leave a commentI made it a point, throughout most (if not all) of the ‘But how?’ series, not to attack religion in and of itself, but to defend/explain the secular standpoint. This is not due to any kind of altruism – I have attacked religions just a few times in the past here – but instead […] June 13th, 2019 | Tags: accepting reality, cart before the horse, chasing rainbows, David MacMillan, never start with a conclusion, new explanations, Path across the stars | Category: But How?, Critical Thinking, Reference, Science & Evolution |
Leave a commentI have no photos to illustrate this, because I never stopped to take any – I know, a sorry state of affairs for someone who calls himself a photographer. So you’ll just have to contend with my narrative. Or, you know, skip it and go to a site with pichers… For family reasons, I […] No, I’m not dying; we’re referring here, yet again, to the ol’ philosophical arguments about free will. Even worse, this may not be the last despite the implications of the title, but c’mon, I haven’t done one in a while so you can’t complain. This one was inspired by re-reading a post from five […] When and how, exactly, did coins begin to be called, “change?” I’m guessing it had something to do with the only thing you could change a paper bill into. But that’s not what I’m here to type about. I haven’t done a philosophical/existential post in a long time, mostly because I wasn’t coming across […] This week, the folder selection for our archive digital shots is ‘Space.’ If you’re viewing this image and thinking it doesn’t look very spacey, well, how you could be so ignorant? Look again, you oblivious savage. Those structures are launch pads 39-A and 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, the very […] Courtesy: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Okay, okay, it’s cheating, I know, since I’ve featured this very same moon before, taken by the very same probe as well. Of course, for the time being, there’s not a lot of choices in the latter department, since the Cassini probe was the only […] This was originally going to be included in an earlier post, but it never fit in well with it and needed its own dedication, so let’s start with another frequently-seen internet meme that illustrates an all-too-common perspective: Hmmmmm. And what if I told you that you should stick to subjects you have the faintest […] Hmmmm, I have a choice between a rant semi-continued from another post, or a kinda-long exposition that explains some curious traits. What to do, what to do? I would like to give credit for this photo, but it’s one of the millions on the internet that were lifted from somewhere and make the rounds […] |
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