February 21, 2008
How are they the same?
• Woody Allen
• Martin Luther King, Jr
• Bill Clinton
• Bruce Lee
• David Duchovny
• Raisa Gorbachev
• Jay Leno
• Harrison Ford
• Steve Martin
• Susan Sarandon
• George Soros
• Thomas Jefferson
• Northrop Frye
• Iris Murdoch
• Alexander Solzhenitsin
• Susan Sontag
• Pope John Paul II
• Pierre Trudeau
(Don’t click unless you know The answer)
(From One good move)
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January 27, 2008
Socrates is mortal
"Why should merely cracking down on terrorism help to stop it, when that method hasn't worked in any other country? Why are we so hated in the Muslim world? What did our government do there to bring this horror home to all those innocent Americans? And why don't we learn anything, from our free press, about the gross ineptitude of our state agencies? about what's really happening in Afghanistan? about the pertinence of Central Asia's huge reserves of oil and natural gas? about the links between the Bush and the bin Laden families?"
Loaded questions. Found at The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies
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January 17, 2008
Where did I leave my keys?
The Ulam Spiral is a simple method of graphing the prime numbers that reveals a pattern which has never been fully explained. It was discovered by the mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963, while doodling on scratch paper at a scientific meeting. Ulam, bored that day, wrote down a regular grid of numbers, starting with 1 at the center, and spiraling out
Retired porn star Asia Carrera studied piano as a child, and performed at Carnegie Hall twice before the age of 15. By 16 she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan. When she was 17, she ran away from home because she felt her parents put too much pressure on her to succeed academically.
She won a full academic scholarship to Rutgers University and is a member of Mensa. (From 8 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Geeks)
About the emerging brain fitness movement - 10 Habits of Highly Effective Brains
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October 05, 2007
Who owns the fish?
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a man with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
The question is: "Who owns the fish?"
Hints:
The Brit lives in the red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house's owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the center house drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water
(From Coudal)
Abandoned scientific center of Russian brain research
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September 19, 2007
Shift Happens
Did you know? Shift Happens slide presentation by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century
From Mensa Danmark: IQ Test. The test is developed using Macromedia Flash MX. Inspired by Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices.
“There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?”
In case you don't know everything… (Thank you, Marilyn B.)
A directory of 2573 online papers on consciousness and related topics
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July 28, 2007
I’m in ur skoolz – pokin ur popperz
LOL Philosophers flickr slideshow. (From Bitch Ph.D.)
Le Grand Content, examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. Which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. A Film by Clemens Kogler. (Found on Indexed)
The Collected Works Of Friedrich Nietzsche
How to solve a maze with Photoshop
Spinning Silhouette Optical Illusion (Above)
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March 13, 2007
"...We live but for a moment"
Meet Daniel Tammet, real life Brain man
Diderot's Map of the System of Human Knowledge. (From Plep)
I didn’t know that Michel Foucault took LSD at Zabriskie Point and died from AIDS after heavy S&M partying in San Francisco in the early 80‘s...
Action Philosophers, a comic book series detailing the lives and thoughts of history's A-list brain trust
(Pix of Erasmus the Duck from tingilinde)
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December 17, 2006
Hawking to divorce
If Geniuses Ruled from Worth1000
Hawking and second wife to divorce
The MIT Mystery Hunt is an annual puzzle competition held at MIT during the January Independent Activity Period (IAP). The competition challenges each team to solve a large number of puzzles which lead to a coin hidden somewhere on-campus
Who was the historical Athanasius Kircher, the inspiration behind The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society blog?
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October 06, 2006
Everybody has to cross the river
If a hot air balloon could be manufactured in the shape of giant popcorn kernels, why not in the shape of a human brain? The World’s Largest Brain was designed by neurosurgeon Dr. Scott Gibbs. (From Ami Ben Basat)
Japanese IQ Test by Rob Mathiowetz
Monopolis - The global marketplace
“Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church” and other atheist quotes
The complete text of Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. (From Anarchaia)
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June 17, 2006
Help Sophie Make a Choice
Jim Propp’s Self-referential aptitude test
Top ten contenders of The World Chess Beauty Contest
Colleen AF Venable's Amazing Math Trick
An Amazing Web Race. I have invited you to compete in a race around the world. If you complete the journey you will be rewarded…
Brainy Electra - Plasma Lamp by Lumisource
You're a single mother, with no living relatives except your twin daughters, who are both dying of kidney failure. You have one kidney to donate. Is there a moral/ethical philosophy that deals with such rock/hard place dilemmas?
The Self-Help and Actualization Movement has become an $8.5-billion-a-year business. Does it work? By Michael Shermer
There is a strategy you can use that does better than breaking even the envelope paradox
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January 10, 2006
Lack of curiosity
Frvade - The hardest enigma on the internet: 408,250 people have tried to solve the puzzle since April 2005. 0 have succeeded
About the troubling state of lack of curiosity: In a world where everything is worth knowing, nothing is
According to students enrolled in professor Michael Rosenthal's Philosophy 101 course at Dartmouth University, that guy, Darrin Floen, the one who sits at the back of the class and acts like he's Aristotle, seriously needs to shut up
Thinking like a Genius. Even if you're not a genius, you can use the same strategies as Aristotle and Einstein to harness the power of your creative mind and better manage your future. 8 strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems
Brain Maps is an interactive high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is database-integrated for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet
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June 26, 2005
Smilie Dictionary
The Salma Hayek versus Friedrich Hayek Scorecard. So, you're an intellectual who appreciates the subjectivist economic theory and classical liberal political theory of Friedrich Hayek. And you're also a moviegoer who appreciates the exotic allure of Mexican screen goddess Salma Hayek. But who would win, if they went head to head? Lucky for you, I'm keeping score
The Unlearning Annex. (From ”Informiorium”)
If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who diagree with you. More quotes from The Greenbelt
How to create Smilies. The Unofficial Smilie Dictionary
A comprehensive list of cognitive biases. Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality
Anyone with an appreciation of a good math problem should find something they like here, with problems ranging from basic math to differential equations. Each problem also comes with a difficulty rating from one to four stars. (Thank you, Tom. I lost your URL, so please email it to me for a propert link-back!)
Snopes investigates: Student mistakes examples of unsolvable math problems for homework assignment and solves them – True or false?
Philosophy since the Enlightenment
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May 18, 2005
It’s ALIVE!
Fox Schools Presents: The 2015 SATs, in association with the Kansas & Texas public schools and in cooperation with the Department of Education and Other Faith-Based Programs
Five tests from The International High IQ Society. (Found at ”Steel Deal”)
38 Ways to Win an Argument from Schopenhauer's "The Art of Controversy"
Cox's Study of 300 (301) Eminent Geniuses born from 1450 to 1850, including Flynn Effect Calculations, listed alphabetically and by descending IQ. (From ”Reality Carnival”)
John Brockman, literary agent, specializing in top science writers and a tireless promoter of influential ideas
Logical fallacies. A fallacy is, very generally, an error in reasoning. This differs from a factual error, which is simply being wrong about the facts. To be more specific, a fallacy is an "argument" in which the premises given for the conclusion do not provide the needed degree of support
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January 02, 2005
“You're out of your element, Donny!”
Philosophy Crossword Puzzles from Dr. Gordon L. Ziniewicz
Same-sex marriage? Euthanasia? Child's play issues in the avant-garde philosophy of Peter Singer, the "most influential" philosopher alive. (“Parental warning: This article refers to infanticide and some abnormal sexual activities”)
Albert Einstein on Stamps, including this Mongolian Man-of –the-century stamp sheet. Other stamps related to puzzles and math games. Same subject: Topical Philately collections from France. (I always thought that stamp collecting finds a natural medium on the web)
Pupils at King William's College on the Isle of Man have suffered this fiendish general knowledge quiz for 99 years. The average score is just two
Little men and their discontinuities: A sensory homunuculus that is constructed based on the sensory cortex ('body sensing')
10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease
I always try to avoid the obvious, but re-reading Susan Sontag’s Notes On "Camp", I decided that I have the right to post it. Why not? Published in 1964: “The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful”
Sculpture above by professional nerd Andrew Lipson. Many More Intelligent Links and Brainier Links Here
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November 06, 2004
Brains in Jars
Vandal daubs DNA code in street: The artist spray-painted part of a chemical component of DNA on the road outside a lab where the double helix was unveiled 50 years ago.
Adventures in Lobotomy. Doctor, why are you pointing that ice pick toward me? Walter Freeman was The Lobotomist. He kept record of 3,439 lobotomies he performed during his career. His technique of trans-orbital lobotomy was such a breeze that he could teach it in a day or two to state-hospital psychiatrists who, like himself, had no certification in surgery. Freeman gave lobotomies to children, adults, old people, and people with depression, manic-depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of undiagnosed psychiatric illnesses
Brain Jell-O (By Cory Doctorow)
From Joe Landsberger’s Study Guides and Strategies - Thinking like a Genius
Puzzlers from 25 countries attended the 13th World Puzzle Championship in Croatia. After three days of competitive solving, Team USA emerged the victor
Grow Your Own Brain: A University of Florida scientist has grown a living "brain" that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network
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August 27, 2004
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies
How not to buy happiness (pdf)
The Secrets of Scientology - "The Church of Scientology is a rich and vengeful religious cult, or as one critic puts it, "a cross between the Moonies and the Mafia." But it would be a mistake to dismiss its underlying technology as harmless or ineffective. Scientologists know a great deal about thought control, social control, rhetorical judo and high pressure sales…" Oh oh, now I’ll be sued…
Likewise: The Skeptic’s Directory tells about the background of Landmark Education
Nietzsche Aphorism Page: One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed. Here are some of Nietzsche's music compositions and Nietzsche's photographs
Quote above by Nietzsche. Photo of the famous Hubbard Pumpkin above from “Anti-sects”. Many More Intelligent Links and Brainier Links Here
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July 11, 2004
Rack your brains
Today’s Google ad From July's issue of Physics Today – Figure it out!
They are made out of meat, a 1991 Nebula nominee short story by Terry Bisson
Welcome to our Brain Map. (From “Gibberations”)
Navel Gazing: "The signatory knot that ties up nothing and goes nowhere holds more erotic charms for some than the conventional attractions. Neither procreative nor nutritive, perhaps it is the navel's lack of obvious purpose, combined with its audacious, almost arrogant, spot right there in the middle of things, that sucks its admirers in..."
Mind & Machines - Biology of the Brain. (From “Coolio’s”)
Old design above from Create your own ambigram. Many More Intelligent Links and Brainier Links Here
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April 13, 2004
Random Brainy Links
"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist"…
Monty Python's Philosopher's Song
The Human Factor - How much is your life worth to you? And Human For sale
And from “Slate” - Is Your Life Worth $10 Million? . Nope. But your grandson's will be
News from Pravda: Mathimatically gifted use brain to its full potential (They are not talking about you & me)
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March 17, 2004
Brains - The other, other white meat (From "Worth 1000")
17 Surveys and Psychology Tests from the BBC. For example, What makes you squirm and say "yuck"? Can you guess someone's personality from their face? Are you a pillar of society, or do you look after number one? Have you got what it takes to get to the top of the pile and stay there?
”The Skeptic’s Dictionary” , A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions (and how to think critically about them)
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January 31, 2004
Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Brainy Links
Albert Einstein's Collected Quotes "The only real valuable thing is intuition" - 8/16/03
Appeal of the Rare - Why are we attracted to the unusual? - 11/30/03
Art & Letters Daily - Your first source of News & Reviews
A Quiz For People Who Know Everything . (From "Sciatica" ) - 1/3/04
Lots to ponder with Ray Davis' Bellona Times and Alex Golub's Golublog
Mensa Workout - 9/19/03
Operation Clambake , The fight against the Church of Scientology on the net - 12/2/03
Philosophy on the Internet - 12/20/03
Social and cultural theory trading cards
Space Ship Earth and The Buckminster Fuller Institute - 11/15/03
The Art Garfunkel library list
The definition of "Reality TV" - 11/18/03The Existentialist's Homepage (From "Idle Type" ) - 9/6/03
The heroes of post-positivist realism? (From "Incoming Signals" ) - 8/22/03
The Mother of All Maritime Links
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
"The skeptic society" , an interview with Michael Shermer and The Skeptic's Dictionary
Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
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