Recent content by FreeMitya

This has made one high school dropout much more optimistic.

It would have been better if I had written "subjects" instead of "things." Oh, well. Another part of the problem is that many people take longer to grasp math than others, so it is easy for them to become frustrated and resentful. (A banal thought, I know.)

You know how the things you love literally leave a good taste in your mouth? I guess science doesn't taste very good to the people you speak of.

I have severe OCD and sometimes compulsively reread sentences ten or fifteen times. It helps me memorize the material, though. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9Qdzxc1HM

I think they seem that way because they're relatively strange, but doing anything well is hard. Here I go bringing up art again, but I'm most bewildered by sculpture. I don't "get" good sculpture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo%27s_Moses How a human can create that is beyond me. I...

Based on what what I've read in other threads like this one, many, if not most, PF posters haven't taken an IQ test, so we probably wouldn't be able to give you an accurate idea of where you stand as compared to the forum as a whole. However, I can tell you this: the quality of your posts will...

It's generally not a problem for me, but overt--and probably covert--creationism is less prevalent in Canada than in the States. I've only met one person who expressed ideas similar to the ones you're talking about, but even he was murky about them and was open to a real discussion. If, for...

I think adults generally don't watch cartoons made for children because they don't find them entertaining any more. However, plenty of adults watch cartoons like the Simpsons because, for example, the first six or seven seasons of the Simpsons are the funniest television ever produced, and it...

You're being too logical. There's nothing wrong with mourning somebody's death, even if his death was his fault. Human emotion is often irrational, but that doesn't necessarily mean it deserves to be called into question when it is.

I use the CBC, take advantage of the ten free articles per month on the New York Times' website, and check SciAm every now and then. That's really all I need.

You want to dance, hornets? Let's dance.

First of all, the article reads like a bad conspiracy novel: While that's not really a logical point to make in response to this specific issue, it is indicative of the type of "journalism" we're dealing with--namely alarm-ism. The one source he quotes, Harvey Wasserman, identifies himself as...

I would have liked my family to be richer than we are, but not so rich that my head would begin to swell. Not having the same opportunities as other people has offered perspective, and I don't take very many things for granted. To be honest, though, the thought of being a different person has...

Dementia.