Category Archives: Birds

The History of Magnetic Vision

Posted on September 28, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Grossmann is getting his doctorate on a topic that is connected with non-Euclidean geometry. I don’t know what it is. Einstein to Mileva Maric,1902 Animal Navigation The long-distance navigational abilities of animals have fascinated humans for centuries and challenged scientists … Continue reading →

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Our Local Wildlife

Posted on September 26, 2007 by PlatoHagel

My wife took some nice pictures of the different animals running around getting food from the feeders my wife had set out for them. Again, we have not corrected the date on the pictures. The bird house was built by … Continue reading →

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Crucible

Posted on February 9, 2007 by PlatoHagel

True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler How many of you had thought the body you inhibit as a “vessel or a crucible?” I related in the previous post to ““Democritus had Passion and Heat?” to the idea … Continue reading →

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What’s on the Condense Matter Theorist’s Mind?

Posted on September 13, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The Theory of Everything Prof. Robert B. Laughlin The crystalline state is the simplest known example of a quantum , a stable state of matter whose generic low-energy properties are determined by a higher organizing principle and nothing else. Robert … Continue reading →

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Newton the Alchemist

Posted on August 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Newton’s Translation of the Emerald Tablet It is true without lying, certain and most true. That which is Below is like that which is Above and that which is Above is like that which is Below to do the miracles … Continue reading →

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BigFoot: The Anomalistic Reality?

Posted on August 4, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The explanation of scientific development in terms of paradigms was not only novel but radical too, insofar as it gives a naturalistic explanation of belief-change. Thomas Kuhn <a href="http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2006/03/professors-fate-or-encouragement-to.html&quot; target=_BLank title="Frame from the footage filmed by Roger Patterson in October … Continue reading →

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How Particles Came to be?

Posted on May 10, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The First Few Microseconds, by Michael Riordan and Willaim A. Zajc For the past five years, hundreds of scientists have been using a powerful new atom smasher at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island to mimic conditions that existed at … Continue reading →

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SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER

Posted on February 16, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Some of the older, and not so old, when they hear “this title” above, do they think of Startrek’s exploits in space? As we were given “a view” of space travellers going from … Continue reading →

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Visualization: Changing Perspective

Posted on May 12, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I give some perspective on “image use and artistic expression.” But such journeys are not limited to the “ideas of a book” or “a painting” in some form of geometric code. Some will remember Salvador Dali picture I posted. I … Continue reading →

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Cycle of Birth, Life, and Death-Origin, Indentity, and Destiny by Gabriele Veneziano

Posted on November 29, 2004 by PlatoHagel

Was the big bang really the beginning of time? Or did the universe exist before then? Such a question seemed almost blasphemous only a decade ago. Most cosmologists insisted that it simply made no sense – that to contemplate a … Continue reading →

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