06 NOV 2012 by ideonexus
The Energy Game
The Energy Game > Example/Illustration > The Energy Game in a Dead MothFeynman describes a game of tracing all energy back to the sun, and Chet Raymo provides an example of this with a moth being carried away by ants.
01 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Religious Ignorance Versus Enlightenment's Education of t...
William Tyndale Translates the New Testament into English > Contrast > Bad Men Hoard KnowledgeWhen a scholar translated the Bible to English so that anyone may read it, he was branded a heretic; however, Diderot admonished specialists who hoarded their knowledge and denied humanity the benefit of their discoveries.
03 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
Culture as an Evolutionary Strategy, It's Danger, and Sci...
The Evolution of Culture > Cause and Effect > The Danger of Culture and Science as the SolutionBefore the study of Memetics, Feynman provides a succinct description of culture as memes, and then later, he describes the danger of culture, erroneous memes, the cure for which is science.