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Why It's So Difficult To Change People's Minds

https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/difficult-to-change-minds

Article: Linguistic Relativity and Thesaurus Arguments . Language (words and definitions in particular) have the potential to influence people’s thoughts, and people won&rsq
Belief networks, selective attention and blind spots, echo chambers, censorship, identities, and genetic differences make it difficult to change people's minds.

Physics Jokes

http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/jokes/physicsjokes.html

the theory of special relativity , when he decided to take a break and go on vacation in Mexico. So he hopped on a plane and headed to Acapulco. Each day, late in the afternoon, s
A collection of the best physics jokes; compiled by Jupiter Scientific

Some Metaphysics of Angular Momentum and Gravity

https://friesian.com/angular.htm

explanations of General Relativity, might be taken to posit a form of Absolute Space. However, none of this is quite right. Even in Einstein, there is a feature of space that in f

Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

and general relativity go? I have yet to hear of any practical uses for these subjects. But just as man does not live on bread alone, so man does not live on an MBA alone. The att

Log24: Cullinane Journal

http://log24.com/

Block Designs Finite Relativity Cognitive Blending Geometry of the 4x4 Square Visualizing GL(2,p) Pattern Groups Ideas and Art Jung's Imago Theme and Variations The Geometry of Lo
Old archives of web journal Log24 by Steven H. Cullinane. New archives are at m759.net

Paul Feyerabend's Against Method

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/feyerabe.htm

contain the idea of the relativity of all motion and the law of circular inertia. Initial difficulties caused by the change are defused by ad hoc hypotheses, which thus turn out o
Paul Feyerabend's argument for anything goes in science

INTERSTELLAR PROBES: A NEW APPROACH TO SETI

http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/InterstellarProbesJBIS1980.htm

system. From Special Relativity this energy is m c 2 /(1- V 2/ c 2 ) 1/2 , where V is the probe's interstellar cruise velocity relative to the stationary frames of reference of th

NMSR Speakers!

http://www.nmsr.org/speakers.htm

Nov. 2001: Relativity June 2001: Global Warming May 2001:  Self-assembled materials April 2001:  Proof of Knowledge March 2001:  English Language and its

Worldviews -- Introduction

https://projectworldview.org//worldviews.htm

linguistic relativity , is a principle suggesting that the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to t


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