Category: Science and Faith
-
How to engineer a pyrrhic victory
We fought a lot early on in our marriage. Well, kind of fought. She would lash due to feeling overwhelmed and unloved. I responded with avoidance and retreating further into my shell. Needless to say, neither approach solved the conflict. We played the blame game, determined not to lose. In the end, we both did. As humans, we naturally blame others and absolve ourselves when we find ourselves in conflict. Our brains are wired that way. Our cognitive biases lead us to prefer overly simplistic…
-
Implications of the Big Bang
Albert Einstein later called it ‘the greatest blunder’ of his life, at least that is how the story goes. At the beginning of the 20th century many astronomers assumed that the universe was static and unchanging. For good reasons. They had found the distances between stars to be mind-boggling and no evidence of them moving…
-
The gift of dual perspective
At least I think it is a fun way to end the semester. Looking through 3-D glasses at an astronaut. Passing around a View Master. Looking at both sides of the coin at once. Trying to see the 3-D image in a Magic Eye illustration. But of course, I have a really good academic justification…