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Category Archives: Science and Society
Posts on all things scientific; biology, evolution, all the way to computer science (when it’s not about programming or applications), and also some pieces on politics and society in general.
Seesaw
Yes! The world is unfair… and here we’re sitting at the top of the Seesaw feeling all high and mighty…
Go to Jesus
For the airline industry it was a Come to Jesus Moment… the passengers, however, had more of a Go to Jesus Moment…
Schrödinger’s Cat
Schrödinger should not have put that cat in the box!
Why?
Everyone knows a cat has nine lives…
Eight and nine lives, when in Schrödinger’s box…
So, whatever happens in that box the cat is alive when you open it!
How does this influence Quantum Mechanics? Is the universe doomed?
Schrödinger definitely should have placed a dog in the box instead!
Unless of course, cats are a vital component in the Standard Model of Physics! Hmmm…
Update: Maybe Schrödinger was a dog person?
Tragic misreading
Tragic misreading: survival of the fattest…
Choices
One choice eliminates endless possibilities, that’s why choosing is so scary. As much as we’d like to postpone choices in order to keep our options open, abstaining from choosing is also making a choice, it’s usually a choice to give up control.
Grown-up problem solving
– Let’s deal with this like grown-ups…
– Yeah? What do you suggest? Start a war, or something?
The right thing
The right thing is not necessarily a good thing, sometimes it’s just the least bad alternative, and when you find yourself resorting to a lot of least bad alternatives you might want to stop and think about where you life is heading.
Vanity
A woman says she is ugly, a man that he is stupid. Both hope to met opposition.
Genius
Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
/Arthur Schopenhauer