... Is the stupid parents. Parents who never really learned how math works because they are the product of a school system populated by mathphobic teachers ( Read more... )

So near the bottom of this article: www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html you find this line:

It’s this inability to conceive of alternative approaches that leads to despair.

Interesting idea, really... but it's broken in a way. The article describes the creative process in terms of neuroactivity as a combination of divergent ( Read more... )

I decided to give this book another whirl, my previous attempts reminding me of the task of reading Finnigan's Wake. This time, as I started to hit the point of confusion, the place where the words and rhythm seemed all wrong, I realized that the problem was how the book sounded in my head. I'm reading in my US Pacific accent with its clean Midwest ( Read more... )

Which, at the moment, I'm completely certain is a Good Thing ( Read more... )

Yep, yep I do.

There are things I believe in, things that cannot be truly proven to be either true or false, but that I choose to hold as true. This set amounts to my own personal faith. In that spirit, I present BlackDjinn’s Creed, and all who follow shall recieve my blessing.

1. The world that is precived by our senses is Real and is not ( Read more... )

This is a sort of idea I’ve had bits of for years... Most of you have heard my attempts to explain basic human behavior in genetic and evolutionary terms, so this ‘inversion’ of that idea won’t seem strange coming from me ( Read more... )