The number 3 draws much of the focus in this study: “The intriguing human preference for a ternary patterned reality,” Lionello Pogliani, Douglas J. Klein [pictured here], and Alexandra T. Balaban, Kragujevac Journal of Science, 27 (2005): 75-114. The authors, at Università della Calabria, Italy and Texas A&M University at Galveston, USA, explain: “Number three […]
Tag: Reality
Dobbs’s How to Set the Bullshit Filter
David Dobbs wrote an essay (for Wired) called How to Set the Bullshit Filter When the Bullshit is Thick, about how to go about interpreting reported news about science. Dobbs does not say it, but the situation may be even worse when it comes to interpreting reported news of almost any other kind. (Thanks to […]
Read into it what little you can
Our grip on reality is slim, says UCL scientist That’s the headline on a press release issued on June 24, 2007 by University College London. Reading the headline obviates the need or desire to read further details.