Crimes Against Humanity. Having been conditioned your entire lives, the way we are all conditioned our entire lives, to receive sound-bite answers to questions we have never had the critical ability to form in our minds, forecloses our ability to interrogate reality and draw conclusions from it.
That is the function of the media. That is the function of the educational system you understand. It's not to teach you to think critically, which is educational in value. THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS. The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study, with the aid of custom software, public search engines and powerful statistical techniques, in order to determine the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million.
The resulting information exhibits an extraordinary variety of patterns which reflect and refract our culture, our minds, and our bodies. For example, certain numbers, such as 212, 486, 911, 1040, 1492, 1776, 68040, or 90210, occur more frequently than their neighbors because they are used to denominate the phone numbers, tax forms, computer chips, famous dates, or television programs that figure prominently in our culture. VideoGamesEducation3_page.png (PNG Image, 799x4047 pixels) Figures for "Impossible fractals" Figures for "Impossible fractals" Cameron Browne Figure 1.
The tri-bar, the Koch snowflake and the Sierpinski gasket. Figure 2. Operation Northwoods.