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[scottobear]

There's a really fascinating, enthralling article in The New York Times Magazine about the science of coincidence and conspiracy theories. Amazing reading, and written in a great page-turner style.


I WAS A STRANGE CHILD
there are no words to describe you.
except maybe: strange. unique. different.
what kind of child were you?

I cannot find the Monastery of Heaped Fragrance,
Miles up now into the clouds of the summit.
There is no footpath through the ancient woods.
Where did the bell sound,
Deep in the forest, deep in the mountain?
The voice of the torrent gulps over jagged stones;
Sunlight hardly warms the bluish pines.
As dusk deepens in these unfathomable mazes,
I practice meditation
To subdue the dragon of desire.

- Wang Wei (701-761)

Bear teeth... Maybe I'll get a nice fossil, and make it into a necklace. :)

menstrualhut has 712 members, as of this writing...what a hoot!

Time for beddy-bye. Until tomorrow, dear journal!

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[enragedfetus.livejournal.com]

You know, I stumbled upon that same article while surfing through ALdaily.com and found it equally remarkable - not just the article itself, but the mathematics behind it. Not that science has always been the instrument of wonder that it's been claimed to be, but if the theorems behind the debunking of meaning-within-the-coincidence were more widely known, understood, and accepted, a whole lot of hokey spiritualism would collapse into goo-puddles and, I'd imagine, a lot of people would pay more attention to the science (or the order it exposes) of their everyday lives.

I should print that article out and keep it in a handy place.


Also on Arts & Letters Daily is a link to an article about Nash's contribution to Game Theory and how it's now being modified to better suit the irrationality of most human decisions. You might like.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

thanks for the clue-in!