Pigs: An Immunological Cousin
Biology and evolution are fascinating. And so is history: some ancient peoples had prescriptions against eating pork; nowadays we know why. And I think, if …
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Galileo: Rejecting Plato
Platonists suffered from a bad epistemology and metaphysics, so they believed that ideas they made up in their heads were true regardless of what experience …
Conic Sections and Projectile Motion
A diagram that shows how a projectile around the earth would go from a semi-parabola to a circle around the earth to an ellipse, and …
Cherry Laurel Tea
If you pick some Holly for tea, do not confuse American Holly with toxic Cherry Laurel. As I did. 21 Oct 2016 is the day …
Feynman: How To Explain and To Not Explain
First, an introduction to the article I will excerpt: “In 1964 the eminent physicist Richard Feynman served on the State of California’s Curriculum Commission and …
Movement For Cognition
As John Ratey says in his book Spark, movement makes us smarter. Our brains and minds need it for optimal function. Even better — get …