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by cousinbasil
Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:22 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Einstein's Riddle!
Replies: 11
Views: 5794

Re: Einstein's Riddle!

These logic problems are very popular in puzzle magazines, and are commonly used to prepare students to take the Law Boards. Usually they give you the grid which makes it a bit easier.
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:35 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aldous Huxley's Young Archimedes
Replies: 164
Views: 19023

Re: Aldous Huxley's Young Archimedes

Kelly - thanks for this! Where did you find it?
BTW - I knew in the "Study too much" thread you weren't really saying one should ignore formal training. It just sounded that way. I am quite sure you are not a blockhead.
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:26 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can one study too much?
Replies: 88
Views: 19049

Re: Can one study too much?

Invariably when someone espouses this fairly common reductionistic view of "Love" there is more to the story. Either that person has never experienced it and is jealous of those who have, or that person has experienced it and has been burned by it. I say, have no fear. You have your whole...
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:22 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can one study too much?
Replies: 88
Views: 19049

Re: Can one study too much?

Absolutely untrue,. Love, Actually, is merely a cocktail of pheromones and dopamine swishing around the neural network prompting one to continue the current pattern of behavior as it makes the propagation of your genes more likely. Well, one could be reductionistic about almost everything. What you...
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:09 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can one study too much?
Replies: 88
Views: 19049

Re: Can one study too much?

i had an 'a' average in university, but my iq would allow me to achieve a near perfect average if the dedication and lack of unique thoughts were prevailing. do i want to be trapped in a job i don't enjoy? What does this first sentence mean? You had and 'a' average, I got that much. But then you sa...
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:27 pm
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Jumpy Reply window
Replies: 5
Views: 3765

Re: Jumpy Reply window

Yes, fixed! Thank you, Kevin.
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:19 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Jumpy Reply window
Replies: 5
Views: 3765

Jumpy Reply window

Whenever I open a reply window, it only behaves until I have to start scrolling it. It should scroll itself when my entry exceeds the window size, yet it doesn't, and my typing remains out of view. What I write does get entered into the Reply window, but I have to manually scroll down to see it. And...
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:07 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Cannot divide by zero
Replies: 22
Views: 2692

Re: Cannot divide by zero

A line is a structured entiTy, but i am talking about the notion of distance. This brings me to the point; a line implies locality and a structure implies non-locality and this trivial point warps me to your focus point which is only defined as one of the myriads of different contractions or points...
by cousinbasil
Sun Jun 13, 2010 4:11 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can one study too much?
Replies: 88
Views: 19049

Re: Can one study too much?

Gurrb's aspiration to explore the world directly and firsthand, rather than through the perspectives and traditions passed on by others, is "cannot be bothered learning anything" ? I would have thought that was the more intelligent way to learn. This is pure nonsense. You are saying we sh...
by cousinbasil
Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:39 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can one study too much?
Replies: 88
Views: 19049

Re: Can one study too much?

i'd rather be happy in a medium-paying job than to be miserable in a high-paying job. the world is to be explored, and a book cannot help you truly achieve this. Which book are you talking about? No matter, you won't have to worry about either kind of job with an attitude such as that. Imagine tryi...
by cousinbasil
Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:37 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Can one study too much?
Replies: 88
Views: 19049

Re: Can one study too much?

The original question is can one study too much, which for me at least is not the same as reading. I often read without studying, and one can study yet not be reading at all. You can definitely study too much. You study to retain, or develop in a certain area. If you are not developing, you may be s...
by cousinbasil
Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:18 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: Are you an organ donor?
Replies: 2
Views: 3168

Re: Are you an organ donor?

I for one donate my organ every chance I get.
by cousinbasil
Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:50 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Speed of light:
Replies: 11
Views: 2271

Re: Speed of light:

If the speed of time is finite How do you define the speed of time? People may say "Time passes quickly," which implies some kind of rate, but this is just a subjective notion. As Einstein himself indicated, time flies by much faster when one is in the company of a pretty girl than it doe...
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:54 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aldous Huxley's Young Archimedes
Replies: 164
Views: 19023

Re: Aldous Huxley's Young Archimedes

I'm afraid I have not been able to find an attachable copy. If I related too much of the story, it might affect your take on it before you read it, and it is the GF reader's take I am interested in hearing. Briefly, it centers around an English couple who rents space in a large house in Florence. A ...
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:53 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Aldous Huxley's Young Archimedes
Replies: 164
Views: 19023

Aldous Huxley's Young Archimedes

I have just reread this short story and I was struck by its resonance with much of the assessments of Woman at GF. I was wondering if anybody else here has read it and was curious to see some reactions.
by cousinbasil
Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:43 pm
Forum: Archives
Topic: I've had to ban "Gmail"
Replies: 16
Views: 38107

Re: I've had to ban "Gmail"

Dan Rowden wrote:I don't know. I would have assumed it would have effected you, but maybe I have no idea what I'm doing.
should read: "...would have affected you,..."
by cousinbasil
Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:45 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: God Does Not Exist - Question about that
Replies: 298
Views: 43486

Re: God Does Not Exist - Question about that

Anyone who denies God's existence can do so with logical impunity, provided one insists that God is not synonymous with Creator but is taken to mean "literally everything." God cannot be said to exist in the same sense as anything else for which we can say A=A, as in every other case there...
by cousinbasil
Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:24 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: God Does Not Exist - Question about that
Replies: 298
Views: 43486

Re: God Does Not Exist - Question about that

Has anyone actually proved that it's not turtles all the way down?
by cousinbasil
Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:56 am
Forum: Help Desk
Topic: September 11, 2001
Replies: 177
Views: 82793

Re: September 11, 2001

There are just too many variables to draw one conclusion from this incident, especially a conclusion based on a few pictures taken as the WTC was hit. There are only a few people who can actually tell us what happened that day, and whether the plane was carrying explosives, WTC was blown from insid...
by cousinbasil
Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:24 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Intuition
Replies: 4
Views: 1186

Re: Intuition

Intuition means instinctive knowledge. Instinct implies inborn.