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Möbius strip
A Möbius strip made with a piece of paper and tape. If an ant were to crawl along the length of this strip, it would return to its starting point having traversed the entire length of the strip (on both sides of the original paper) without ever crossing an edge. The Möbius strip or Möbius band (UK /ˈmɜrbiəs/ or US /ˈmoʊbiəs/; German: [ˈmøːbi̯ʊs]), also Mobius or Moebius, is a surface with only one side and only one boundary component. The Möbius strip has the mathematical property of being non-orientable. The Möbius band (equally known as the Möbius strip) is not a surface of only one geometry (i.e., of only one exact size and shape), such as the half-twisted paper strip depicted in the illustration to the right. It is straightforward to find algebraic equations the solutions of which have the topology of a Möbius strip, but in general these equations do not describe the same geometric shape that one gets from the twisted paper model described above. Properties[edit] Topology[edit] Related:  Scienza

Too complex to exist - The Boston Globe ON . 10, 1996, a single power line in western Oregon brushed a tree and shorted out, triggering a massive cascade of power outages that spread across the western United States. Frantic engineers watched helplessly as the crisis unfolded, leaving nearly 10 million people without electricity. Even after power was restored, they were unable to explain adequately why it had happened, or how they could prevent a similar cascade from happening again - which it did, in the Northeast on Aug. 14, 2003. Over the past year we have experienced something similar in the financial system: a dramatic and unpredictable cascade of events that has produced the economic equivalent of a global blackout. As governments struggle to fix the crisis, experts have weighed in on the causes of the meltdown, from excess leverage, to lax oversight, to the way executives are paid. Answering these questions properly requires us to grapple with what is called "systemic risk." © Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company.

Marshall Sahlins American anthropologist (1930–2021) Marshall David Sahlins ( SAH-linz; December 27, 1930 – April 5, 2021)[1][2] was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.[3] Biography[edit] Sahlins was born in Chicago, the son of Bertha (Skud) and Paul A. Sahlins received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Michigan where he studied with evolutionary anthropologist Leslie White. Alongside his research and activism, Sahlins trained a host of students who went on to become prominent in the field. His brother was the writer and comedian Bernard Sahlins (1922–2013).[16] His son, Peter Sahlins, is a historian.[17] Work[edit] "The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Sahlins (1972)[18] Early work[edit]

Flying Spaghetti Monster The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism, a movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion and opposes the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools.[3] Although adherents describe Pastafarianism as a genuine religion,[3] it is generally seen by the media as a parody religion.[4][5] The "Flying Spaghetti Monster" was first described in a satirical open letter written by Bobby Henderson in 2005 to protest the Kansas State Board of Education decision to permit teaching intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes.[6] In that letter, Henderson satirized creationist ideas by professing his belief that whenever a scientist carbon-dates an object, a supernatural creator that closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs is there "changing the results with His Noodly Appendage". History Internet phenomenon Positions Creation Afterlife Pirates and global warming

Paradigm Of Complexity The last few decades have seen the emergence of a growing body of literature devoted to a critique of the so-called “old” or “Cartesian-Newtonian” paradigm which, in the wake of the prodigious successes of modern natural science, came to dominate the full range of authoritative intellectual discourse and its associated worldviews. Often coupled with a materialistic, and indeed atomistic, metaphysics, this paradigm has been guided by the methodological principle of reductionism. The critics of reductionism have tended to promote various forms of holism, a term which, perhaps more than any other, has served as the rallying cry for those who see themselves as creators of a “new paradigm.” At the forefront of such a challenge, and in many ways the herald of the new paradigm, is the relatively new movement of transpersonal psychology. In taking seriously such experiences, transpersonal theory has been compelled to transcend the disciplinary boundaries of mainstream psychology. C.

İkonoklazm - Vikipedi 16'ncı yüzyıldan Protestan Reform ikonoklazmı. Nijmegen'de bulunan St. Stevenskerk'teki rölyef heykellere, Beeldenstorm'taki saldırısı İkonoklazm[1], bir kültürün kendi dini ikona ve diğer sembollerine ya da anıtlarına dini ya da politik güdülerle planlı saldırısıdır. İkonoklazma dahil olan ya da destekleyen kişilere "ikonoklast" (putkırıcı) denir. İkonoklazm, farklı dinlere mensup insanlar tarafından gerçekleştirilmiştir, fakat genellikle aynı dinin hizipleri arasında mezhepsel çekişmelerin sonucu olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. 8. ve 9. yüzyıllar boyunca yaşanan iki Bizans ikonoklazma hareketi, resim kullanılmasının ana başlık olduğu bir tartışma ile istisna gösterir. Ana Olaylar[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir] Bizans İkonoklazmı[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir] Bizans dönemindeki diğer doktrinsel konularda olduğu gibi, ikonoklazm üzerindeki ihtilaf hiçbir suretle din adamları ya da dinî bilimlerden gelen argümanlarla sınırlandırılmamıştır. İlk ikonoklazm dönemi: 730-787[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]

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Iconoclasm The destruction of religious images In this Elizabethan work of propaganda, the top right of the picture depicts men busy pulling down and smashing icons, while power is being handed from the dying King Henry VIII to his far more staunchly Protestant son Edward VI.[1]National Portrait Gallery, London Iconoclasm[Note 1] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons. Conversely, one who reveres or venerates religious images is called (by iconoclasts) an iconolater; in a Byzantine context, such a person is called an iconodule or iconophile.[3] The term does not generally encompass the specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow (damnatio memoriae). Iconoclasm may be carried out by adherents of a different religion, but it is more often the result of sectarian disputes between factions of the same religion. Religious iconoclasm[edit] Ancient era[edit] Egypt India[edit]

Atheist Cartoons Scientific Notation Scientific Notation (also called Standard Form in Britain) is a special way of writing numbers: It makes it easy to use big and small values. OK, How Does it Work? Example: 700 Why is 700 written as 7 × 102 in Scientific Notation ? so 700 = 7 × 102 Both 700 and 7 × 102 have the same value, just shown in different ways. Example: 4,900,000,000 1,000,000,000 = 109 , so 4,900,000,000 = 4.9 × 109 in Scientific Notation So the number is written in two parts: Just the digits (with the decimal point placed after the first digit), followed by × 10 to a power that puts the decimal point where it should be (i.e. it shows how many places to move the decimal point). In this example, 5326.6 is written as 5.3266 × 103, because 5326.6 = 5.3266 × 1000 = 5.3266 × 103 Try It Yourself Enter a number and see it in Scientific Notation: Enter Number: Scientific Notation: © 2015 MathsIsFun.com v 0.85 Now try to use Scientific Notation yourself: Number: Other Ways of Writing It Example: 3 × 10^4 is the same as 3 × 104 Check!

Gordian Knot Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot (1767) by Jean-François Godefroy The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (untying an impossibly-tangled knot) solved easily by finding an approach to the problem that renders the perceived constraints of the problem moot ("cutting the Gordian knot"): Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter Legend[edit] The Phrygians were without a king, but an oracle at Telmissus (the ancient capital of Lycia) decreed that the next man to enter the city driving an ox-cart should become their king. The ox-cart still stood in the palace of the former kings of Phrygia at Gordium in the fourth century BC when Alexander arrived, at which point Phrygia had been reduced to a satrapy, or province, of the Persian Empire. Alexander later went on to conquer Asia as far as the Indus and the Oxus, thus fulfilling the prophecy.

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