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Self-Introspection: thinking about how oneself thinks

I often think about how I think because I believe that's the way I can improve my mental process. So I was surprinsingly happy to discover that Henri Poincaré - the great French Scientist who was the...

3 comments    education politics science
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1984: Watch it online for Free

As I said I never read the book 1984 (you can read it online here); I just found all the videos online on youtube and I don't even feel like watching it - for those who want the whole film is below. The reason...

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Alfred Dreyfus70

How Henri Poincaré defended the case of Alfred Dreyfus during the anti-Semitic era in France

You will better understand why I am an admirer of Henri Poincar

0 comments    education history science
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Near Death Experience Testimonials

I'm a very skeptical guy because I'm a rational scientist. Nevertheless I know the limit of Science: sometimes there are facts one can't deny though it isn't yet explained by Science. For example, steam...

12 comments    life science death
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Amino Acids: the building units of Proteins

Amino-Acids are an important class of organic compounds that contain both the amino (8NH2) and carboxyl (8COOH) groups. Of these acids, 20 are the basic building blocks of proteins known as the standard, or...

1 comment    health education diet
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Gattaca The Movie - Eugenics in a near future

"The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters ... We must ask ourselves, what have we done wrong? I think we have failed to take into account a trait which is almost universal and is very deep in...

0 comments    entertainment technology science
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The Dogon Scientific Knowledge Mystery

The Dogon are a Mali african tribe who were considered by French Antropologists as one of the best examples of “primitive savagery”. But in truth their astronomical lore goes back thousands of...

0 comments    religion science mystery
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Becoming a Black Belt with Shewhart/Deming's Theory of Profound Knowledge

"Management is prediction." "A goal without a method is nonsense." "Without theory, there are no questions." "The process is not just the sum of its parts." "The problem is that most courses teach what...

2 comments    technology education science
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Werner Heisenberg

Heisenberg was involved in trying to developing a mathematical system that explained the atom. With the help of Max Born and Niels Bohr Heisenberg was able to present in 1925 a system called matrix mechanics....

1 comment    education science scientist
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How Sir Isaac Newton became Master of the Royal Mint and profited from it Financially

Bimetallism: on the origin of the Gold Standard In Great Britain, Sir Isaac Newton, the famous scientist, was also the master of the mint; he overvalued Gold so that Gold became a standard in that country. ...

1 comment    finance education history
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