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Right Brain vs Left Brain test

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:06:24 GMT

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THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

Tags: right brain, left brain, tests

The Philosophy of Sex

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:42:40 GMT

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The Philosophy of Sex

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
--Tom Clancy

"You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither."
--Steve Martin

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
--Woody Allen

"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
--Rodney Dangerfield

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other e eight are unimportant."
--George Burns

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."
--Sharon Stone

"My girlfriend always laughs during sex ---no matter what she's reading."
--Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple Computers)

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
--Jack Nicholson

"Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is."
--Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady -- and you didn't think Barbara had a sense of humor)

"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
--Billy Crystal

"According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful."
--Robert De Niro

"There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?"
--Dustin Hoffman

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked."
--Jerry Seinfeld

"Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
--Rod Stewart

"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."
--Robin Williams

Tags: humour, battle of the sexes, funny, sex, men, women

Ten Rules For Being Human

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:43:26 GMT

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You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.

You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."

There are no mistakes, only lessons.

Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

Learning lessons does not end.

"There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

Your answers lie within you.

All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

You will forget all this.

Tags: education, philosophy, evcon

Socrates and the Test of Three

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:32:51 GMT

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Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you either hear or are about to repeat a rumor.

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?"

"Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Test of Three."

"Three?"

"That's right," Socrates continued "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to test what you're going to say. The first test is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?"

"No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it."

"All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?"

"No, on the contrary..."

"So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him even though you're not certain it's true?"

The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

Socrates continued. "You may still pass though, because there is a third test - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my stu dent going to be useful to me?"

"No, not really."

"Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"

The man was defeated and left, ashamed.

This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. It also explains why he never found out that Plato was banging his wife.

Tags: rumors, socrates, advice, humour, humor, philosophy

Buddha quote

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:35:30 GMT

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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." -Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.

Tags: buddhism, philosophy, religion, truth

Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:08:20 GMT

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Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer animations.

1. Double-slit electron diffraction

2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects

3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment

4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism

5. Young's light-interference experiment

7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference

8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes

9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus

10. Foucault's pendulum

Tags: science, experiment, list, videos, physics, beauty

Free E-book sites

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:54:42 GMT

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Some free ebook sites

The National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu

11 most important philosophical quotes

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:27:14 GMT

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11 Most Important Philosophical Quotations.

1. “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399 BCE)

2. “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?)

3. “The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” – Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)

4. “I think therefore I am” – René Descartes (1596 – 1650)

5. “To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)

6. “We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)

7. “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)

8. “Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith – when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith – this [is] subjectivity … at its height.” – Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

9. “God is dead.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

10. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

11. “One cannot step twice in the same river.” – Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BCE)

Bonus: Fake Your Way Through a Conversation (with Correct Pronunciation!)

Tags: quotes, philosophy

Dalai Lama - Buddhist guide to life

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:32:25 GMT

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Dalai Lama

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.

Tags: buddhism, psychology, philosophy, religion, guide to happiness

Awesome research/ Homework resource

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:06:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.crf-usa.org

Research Links

Subject Matter

Click for instructions on how to make CRF's Research Links your homepage.

CRF: Constitutional Rights Foundation

Programs

Publications

Free Lessons

Tags: resource, homework, research, info, links

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking - 6 Rules

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:10:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.csicop.org

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

The six rules of evidential reasoning are my own distillation and simplification of the scientific method. To make it easier for students to remember these half-dozen guidelines, I've coined an acronym for them: Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. Apply these six rules to the evidence offered for any claim, I tell my students, and no one will ever be able to sneak up on you and steal your belief. You'll be filch-proof.

Falsifiability

It must be possible to conceive of evidence that would prove the claim false.

Logic

Any argument offered as evidence in support of any claim must be sound.

Comprehensiveness

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be exhaustive -- that is all of the available evidence must be considered.

Honesty

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be evaluated without self-deception.

Replicability

If the evidence for any claim is based upon an experimental result, or if the evidence offered in support of any claim could logically be explained as coincidental, then it is necessary for the evidence to be repeated in subsequent experiments or trials.

Sufficiency

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be adequate to establish the truth of that claim, with these stipulations:

the burden of proof for any claim rests on the claimant,
extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and
evidence based upon authority and/or testimony is always inadequate for any paranormal claim

James Lett

Tags: thinking, knowledge, skeptic, skepticism, logic, evidence, science, philosophy, falsifiability

39 Monty Python sketches

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:28:50 GMT

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1. Monty Python - Self Defence Class
3. Monty Python - married
2. Monty Python - Burma
3. Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
4. Monty Python - International Philosophy
5. Monty Python - Kilimanjaro Expedition
6. Monty Python - Arguement Clinic
7. Monty Python - Funniest Joke
8. Monty Python - The Visitors Sketch
9. Monty Python - Tobacconist Sketch
10. Monty Python - Twit Olympics
11. Monty Python - Agatha Christie Sketch
12. Monty Python - Lumberjack Sketch
13. Monty Python - Eat Me!!
14. Monty Python - The Galaxy Song
15. Monty Python - Mr. Creosote
16. Monty Python - Star Trek
17. Monty Python - Nudge Nudge
18. Monty Python - Football
19. Monty Python - Dirty fork
20. Monty Python - Hospital Sketch
21. Monty Python - Killer Rabbit
22. Monty Python - Dead Parrot
23. Monty Python - Restaurante
24. Monty Python - Force
25. Monty Python - Jumpstyle
26. Monty Python - Graveside
27. Monty Python - Mosquito Hunting
28. Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
29. Monty Python - Military Fairy Routine
30. Monty Python - Courtroom Sketch
31. Monty Python - The Spanish Inquisition
32. Monty Python - Coconut
33. Monty Python - Salad Days
34. Monty Python - The Accident Sketch
35. Monty Python - Twit Race Sketch
36. Monty Python - Courtroom Charades
37. Monty Python - The Prejudice Show
38. Monty Python - The man who is alternately rude and polite
39. Monty Python - Milkman

Tags: humor, funny, monty python, videos, youtube

Seven blunders of the world

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:26:21 GMT

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"Seven Blunders of the World"

1. Wealth without work

2.

Pleasure without conscience

3. Knowledge without character

4. Commerce without morality

5. Science without humanity

6. Worship without sacrifice

7. Politics without principle

—Mahatma Gandhi

|| Museums of the Mind ||

Tags: proverb, philosophy, gandhi, thought, mind, humanity, world

100 most influential books ever written...

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:28:02 GMT

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'100 Most Influential Books Ever Written' by Martin Seymour-Smith

The I Ching

The Old Testament

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

The Upanishads

The Way and Its Power, Lao-tzu

The Avesta

Analects, Confucius

History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides

Works, Hippocrates

Works, Aristotle

History, Herodotus

The Republic, Plato

Elements, Euclid

The Dhammapada

Aeneid, Virgil

On the Nature of Reality, Lucretius

Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws, Philo of Alexandria

Lives, Plutarch

The New Testament

Annals, from the Death of the Divine Augustus, Cornelius Tacitus

The Gospel of Truth

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus

Enneads, Plotinus

Confessions, Augustine of Hippo

The Koran

Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides

The Kabbalah

Summa Theologicae, Thomas Aquinas

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli

On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther

Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin

On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, Nicolaus Copernicus

Essays, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Don Quixote, Parts I and II, Miguel de Cervantes

The Harmony of the World, Johannes Kepler

Novum Organum, Francis Bacon

The First Folio [Works], William Shakespeare

Dialogue Concerning Two New Chief World Systems, Galileo Galilei

Discourse on Method, René Descartes

Pensées, Blaise Pascal

Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

Works, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Ethics, Baruch de Spinoza

Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Isaac Newton

The Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

The New Science, Giambattista Vico

A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume

The Encyclopedia, Denis Diderot, ed.

A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson

Candide, François-Marie de Voltaire

Common Sense, Thomas Paine

An Enquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

Tags: books, influential, interesting, weightage of words.

Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:38:23 GMT

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Clip Source: physics-animations.com

Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

1. Double-slit electron diffraction

2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects

3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment

4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism

5. Young's light-interference experiment

6. Cavendish's torsion-bar experiment

7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference

8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes

9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus

10. Foucault's pendulum

Clipmarks | wildcat's 'philosophy' clips

Right Brain vs Left Brain test

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The Philosophy of Sex

The Philosophy of Sex

Ten Rules For Being Human

Socrates and the Test of Three

Buddha quote

Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

Free E-book sites

11 most important philosophical quotes

11 Most Important Philosophical Quotations.

1. “The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates (470-399 BCE)

2. “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” – William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?)

3. “The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” – Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)

4. “I think therefore I am” – René Descartes (1596 – 1650)

5. “To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)

6. “We live in the best of all possible worlds.” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)

7. “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)

8. “Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith – when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith – this [is] subjectivity … at its height.” – Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

9. “God is dead.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

10. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

11. “One cannot step twice in the same river.” – Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BCE)

Bonus: Fake Your Way Through a Conversation (with Correct Pronunciation!)

Dalai Lama - Buddhist guide to life

Dalai Lama

Awesome research/ Homework resource

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking - 6 Rules

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

Falsifiability

Logic

Comprehensiveness

Honesty

Replicability

Sufficiency

39 Monty Python sketches

Seven blunders of the world

100 most influential books ever written...

Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments