03 DEC 2014 by ideonexus
The Pretties
There was a certain kind of beauty, a prettiness that everyone could see. Big eyes and
full lips like a kid’s; smooth, clear skin; symmetrical features; and a thousand other
little clues. Somewhere in the backs of their minds, people were always looking for
these markers. No one could help seeing them, no matter how they were brought up. A
million years of evolution had made it part of the human brain.
The big eyes and lips said: I’m young and vulnerable, I can’t hurt you, and you want...A society that uses plastic surgery to turn everyone into a beautiful average as a means of reducing conflict.
19 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Two Meanings of the Word "Theory"
Theory, Sense 1: A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or
account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by
observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a
statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles, or causes of something known or
observed.
Theory, Sense 2: A hypothesis proposed as an explanation; hence, a mere hypothesis,
speculation, conjecture; an ide...How scientists use it versus it's use in everyday life.