Different Bases
The most common base of course decimal, also known as base-ten. This includes numbers zero through nine represented with one digit, 0 through 99 with two, and so on and so forth. The word Decimal comes from the root deca…
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Monthly Archive: February 2014
Research finds avian navigational perception is influenced by human electronics
Birds possess an ability that scientists call magneto reception. This is the perception of magnetic fields and is used by avian species to determine direction. When the time comes for many birds to migrate, this capacity becomes more important because…
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Understanding Base Number Systems
Number systems can theoretically have as many distinct symbols as there are numbers themselves. The fact that the base-10 system we use has become so prevalent throughout the world today may be because it is intuitive for us to use…
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Report my Science Fair Experiment
My very first science fair was exciting I was building a model which had never been invented by and adult, but I was a fifteen-year-old teenager hoping that I could show adult that teenagers were cleaver than they thought. My…
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Parallel Lines
Points and lines are the building blocks of Euclidean plane geometry. The concept of line forms the base, for the study of angles, polygons and higher geometry. Two lines are said to be parallel 1. Only if the lines are…
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Psychology the Dunning Kruger Effect in Action
February 14, 2014 Social Science
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias which is caused by the inability of particularly poor performers to evaluate their own performance accurately. As a result, those who are incompetent are also unable to recognize their incompetence and thereby improve…
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Remote Hack of the Human Brain
February 14, 2014 Social Science
There has been a lot of debate lately in the areas of online privacy, NSA spying, computer hacking, and general advances in artificial intelligence and neuroscience. President Obama recently announced a bold initiative to totally ‘map’ the human brain. It…
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Everyday uses for Mathematics in the Real World
From the very first second each of us opens our eyes in the morning, we are using math. It’s essential for survival, for living, for learning, for progressing, for communicating. Our minds never stop calculating, brilliantly I might add (oops,…
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Understanding Statistis and Lies
Statistics lie, this we know for a fact. When both sides of any argument can quote competing statistics in order to prove their point, it becomes obvious that these prized facts and figures are nowhere near as reliable as we…
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Psychology of Complaining Reasons why People Complain
February 14, 2014 Social Science
An average person is said to complain nearly 15-30 times a day! Hence, as much as we might want to believe that complaining is something that only others are guilty of, the truth is that we are all complainers. It…
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