Tag: logic
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Mathematical Nihilism
Lets say you have a bowl filled with 100 rocks. 1 is painted red, 1 is painted green, and 98 of the rocks are unpainted. What percentage of the rocks in the bowl are painted? This is a fairly standard math problem for teaching percentages – and the answer of course is 2%. Conversely, if…
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Home Thermodynamics
I know it is a strange concept for many people to wrap their heads around (because I’ve had to explain it entirely too many times in recent history) – but opening your refrigerator/freezer, or setting up a portable air conditioning unit in the center of a room *with no heat exhaust to send the heat…