chhitiz

why do we idolize moviestars, sportstars, and celebrities? and why do we go to any lengths to defend them in heated arguments, appreciate their slightest gestures, find class and style in their smallest movements, go around dishing amazing facts about them, try to know the minutest details of their life, well practically worship them? it probably is our subconscious acceptance of the fact that they have, in a particular field, achieved a level which we can only dream of. i repeat.our fanaticism...

bell curve- it is an example of how there emerges a pattern in every chaotic, evasive phenomenon. there are countless natural processes which follow the format of standard deviation from a mean value- the radiation of a blackbody, outcomes of non deterministic experiments, diffraction and interference patterns, iq tests, even the results of polls of the general masses on random topics. i had an interesting thought in this regard. on plotting the level of human intellectual achievement with respect...