Our understanding is correlative to our perception. – Robert Delaunay This last week, I went from the sub-zero temperatures in Columbus, OH to shirtless strolling on the sands of Long Beach, CA for a social psychology conference. Oh, how glorious that golden sun doth be! But speaking of glorious, golden things we all hope to…
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. – Leonardo da Vinci Without any further information, if I asked you whether you would be more likely to buy a more expensive meal at a restaurant called Studio 97 or Studio 18, which would you say? Clearly, the only difference between these restaurants (as…
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. – Fraknklin Jones Have you ever been late for something? Say a date? Maybe an airport pickup ride? How about a blog? Yes, today’s post was a little later than usual, but it was all to serve a point (the point that I…
Science is nothing but perception. – Plato I have a quick and simple game for you, that is, I’m going to present you with three numbers, and it’s your job to come up with another three numbers to test the rule behind the original numbers’ selection. (This may seem kind of tricky across the internet, i.e….
The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. — Thomas Huxley So the other day, I was doing some intensive graduate research on a series of tests informing me which Marvel superhero I was most like. When I completed the first quiz, it reported I was most similar to…
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams Recently, it started snowing here in Columbus, bringing with it the stabbing wind, the treacherous ice, and the cold so sharp I could use it to shave. So although I’d…