We're back!! This website was kicked off the Lock Haven University server April, 2023. I saw this website as an educational outreach of the university, but they saw it as a "personal" website. It is…
| We're back!! This website was kicked off the Lock Haven University server April, 2023. I saw this website as an educational outreach of the university, but they saw it as a "personal" website. It is now up and running with a new URL, thanks to generous web hosting by Paolo Sirtoli. Some pictures and internal links may still be missing. Please inform me of errors so I can fix them. If the missing pictures are important to you, they may be found at my May 4, 2022 archived website or an earlier archived copy. |
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The Museum of Unworkable Devices. Perpetual motion machinesas physics puzzles.
Intelligent Design Creationism. Fraudulent Science, Bad Philosophy.
Myths and Mysteries of Science. Removing the mystery.
Cutting Edge Science. Profundity or parody?
Illustrated Lectures on these subjects.
Uncle Don's Notebook. | Bob Schadewald's Corner.
Physics and Astronomy. | Physics Abused. | Physics Puzzles.
History and Philosophy of Science.
Skepticism, pseudoscience, urban Legends.
Humor, satire, parody, mostly about science.
Hoaxes. | The Ed-Biz. | Quotes. | Illusions and 3-D photography.
Articles written for print publication.
Web Search Engines and Web Resources.
We can't claim to fully understand what science is until we know what it is not. The science/pseudoscience interface can help us understand both the strengths and the self-imposed constraints of science. Science is a self-correcting process, continually weeding out errors of thought and errors of methodology, thereby narrowing the region where truth may reside. While science claims no absolute truths, it has accumulated a larger body of reliable and testable understanding of nature than any other method of human inquiry.Here's logos and links to a few of the web sites that have recognized my site as worthy for some reason or another. Since they have shown such good judgment and fine taste, you might wish to look at their sites. Unfortunately this site has outlasted some of these.The human imagination is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, we have the ability to imagine many things that just aren't so. The universe has no obligation to behave as we'd like, or even to be understandable to our minds.
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By tgb 2015-09-011:20 Or, if you don't have the patience to give this mumbo-jumbo the benefit of the doubt, just see this: https://xkcd.com/spiral/
I am not much of a mathematician but I know a little about art and photography. Generally this piece was well written and I don't doubt a lot of it. Two comments though:
Using pictures of swimsuit models is a potentially deeply flawed methodology. Photoshop is of course liberally applied to these images and proportions of many aspects (leg length and waist length being perhaps the most germane here) are thus distorted.
In regards to painting and the arts in general, people talk about the rule of thirds or the golden spiral but artists are not so good about sticking to "rules". The general principle may apply but no one is measuring. Remember that engineers designed guitar amplifiers originally not to cause distortion. Everything changed when Link Wray put a pencil through the cone of his cabinet. ;)
> Using pictures of swimsuit models is a potentially deeply flawed methodology. Photoshop is of course liberally applied to these images and proportions of many aspects (leg length and waist length being perhaps the most germane here) are thus distorted.
What's the flawed methodology? I understood the author to be making the same point you're making here.
By slr555 2015-09-0112:38 I was being a bit facetious but I was making the point that the distortions introduced by photo manipulation may not truly allow one to make the extrapolations about height the author alludes too. But as I say, my intended tone was tongue in cheek.
