At Facebook they analyzed everyone’s status updates and arrived at the conclusion that there is one day all year when Facebookers are happiest. Christmas. Data crunchers in other labs have revealed that if you live in Vermont you will live longer than if you live in New York. Science interprets stuff like that and makes [...]
Entries Tagged as 'science theory'
Don’t Trust Science?
October 8th, 2009 · → 12 Comments
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Tags:bible·big science·Bill Maher·Bill Nye the science guy·Facebook·Genesis 1:16·god made two great lights·H1N1·happiness·how long will I live·Jenny McCarthy·LinkedIn·pew research center poll·Rainn Wilson·swine flu·thanksgiving
Clean and Dirty
August 6th, 2009 · → 2 Comments
I was watching the waters of the Ganges. I must have been really enlightened that day, because with vision better than Superman’s I could see the E. coli, the hepatitis A, B and C, the typhoid and cholera and dysentery swirling downstream.
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Tags:500 words·Ganges·glacier·India·Lee Schneider·LinkedIn·Montana State University·Patagonia·Rishikesh·Sadhu·science and spirit
How Many Lives Are You Leading Today?
May 7th, 2009 · → 10 Comments
We are living the beta of our lives, the untested, slightly buggy, first draft version. Or not. We might be living the perfect version of our lives, getting everything right, even though we might not know this until some time in the future.
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Tags:500 words·consciousness·David Deutsch·Dr. J. Richard Gott·LinkedIn·multiverse·parallel universe·quantum theory·Run Lola Run·science·Sliding Doors·subatomic particles·what if I was never born
Seeing is Believing and Believing is Seeing
April 9th, 2009 · → 6 Comments
I have been staring at a $20 bill on my desk for an hour now but it has yet to turn into $40. If I think about this blog really hard, will it write itself? There are those who believe beliefs can manifest into things, that action and thought are entangled.
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Tags:belief·believing is seeing·chocolate·conscious intention·consciousness·Dean Radin·Dr. Dean Radin·entangled minds·Institute of Noetic Sciences·Intentional Chocolate·Lee Schneider·observer effect·quantum physics·Richard P. Sloan·seeing is believing·William Tiller
But I Digress
March 5th, 2009 · → 3 Comments
In 1960 Ted Nelson, a graduate student at Harvard, created Project Xanadu. The project was going to be a word processor capable of creating nonlinear documents. Every quotation would be linked to its original source and every thought annotated. Funny thing, Ted Nelson never finished the project. That tells you something right there about nonlinear thinking.
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The Incredible Power of Chance Events
February 27th, 2009 · → 9 Comments
Had the moment been engineered by unseen forces, or by the simple action of a woman moving to the window to see if it was raining? Forty years ago I plucked a paperback from a shelf and half a world away a woman decided to accept Borges’ offer to become his secretary and later, wife. Try figuring the odds of she and I meeting someday and your head might explode.
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Tags:Argentina·Buenos Aires·chance·Jorge Luis Borges·Lee Schneider·LinkedIn·Magic Realism·New York City·probability
Darwin and Chopra’s Pick Up Basketball Game
February 19th, 2009 · → 5 Comments
You’re choosing sides for a pickup ball game between the New York Logics and the California Intuitives. The guy leaning on the fence has a great jump shot and is obsessed with hard data. He goes to the Logics. The guy in three point land always makes the right move without thinking about it. He’ll play for the Intuitives. Easy choices? What side are you playing on?
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Tags:Charles Darwin·Church·creationists·Deepak Chopra·Francis Bacon·Isaac Newton·John Brodie Innes·Lee Schneider·LinkedIn·science·science and spirituality·spirit
Begin
February 12th, 2009 · → 4 Comments
Right now, we’re at a crossroads where the usual definitions melt away. It’s an intersection of science and spirit. There are some curious discussions happening out there. So each week, on Thursday, I’ll offer you 500 words about the questions people are asking.
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