by Edward de Bono. "There is a story of a man who painted half his car black and the other half white. He said he did this because he loved to hear the witnesses dogmatically contradict each other whenever he was involved in an accident. A wife tries on a new dress and loves it. Her husband who is with her dislikes it. She is looking at the colour and shape - he is looking at the price."
Blind compliance to authority. This should be a case study for psychologists, a wake up call to the education system and force a reflection about society. This was put into a movie Compliance (2012) and is covered in Wikipedia's article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam).
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Initial group consisted of a cooperation of 4 people: a biologist from Great Falls, Montana; a Cree Nations elder representing the First Nations People; the skeptic Todd Standing; and a paramedic fire fighter from Calgary, Alberta. Our ultimate goal is to ethically introduce civilization to the most man-like primate on the planet.
Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, including his annotated copy of Principia Mathematica, containing Newton's laws of motion and gravity.
Very well done series of videos supporting the claim that NASA never sent astronauts to the Moon, giving NASA defenders an impossible time (even embarrassing at times) in their attempts of refutation. Work done by Jarrah White (http://moonfaker.com/home.html)a student doing his BSc in Astrophysics.
Wikibooks is dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open content textbooks and other classroom texts. We currently host 5666 textbook modules, in various stages of development, from those needing a lot of work to those that are nearly perfect.
by Alan C. Kay ffrom Apple Computer - "Most ideas come from previous ideas. The sixties, particularly in the ARPA community, gave rise to a host of notions..."
The numbers that control your life. You're identified by dozens of numbers. Your phone number, your driver's license number, your social security number, your zip code, your license plate, your credit card numbers. I find these numbers fascinating. Who distributes them? What can they be used for? How can you use them? How are they issued?