Posts Tagged ‘Einstein’
The hollow Einstein face
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 23, 2009
- In: Einstein | Psychology
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We have an illusion that consists of a hollow face of Einstein which seems to be looking at you whether you are looking at the front of it or the back. It’s very impressive. I use it to remind students (and myself) that there is a heck of a lot out there that we still don’t [...]
Dear Wife: These are my demands
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 22, 2009
- In: books | Einstein
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That my clothes and laundry are kept in good order and repair. That I receive my three meals regularly in my room. That my bedroom and my office are always kept neat, in particular, that the desk is available to me alone. You are to renounce all personal relations and refrain from criticising me [...]
Ernst Mach: the problem with Science Education
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 15, 2009
1859 marks not only the 150th birthday of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, but also a somewhat less well-known occasion; It was the year Ernst Mach published the first of his 500 publications (his last was published five years after his death, in 1921). Most will know of this man through [...]
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