Tag: Albert Einstein

  • We torture and kill animals en masse

    We torture and kill animals en masse

    It wasn’t the first time. The picturesque town of Jičín offers not only natural or man-made beauties but also harsh realities. Me and my friends were walking down the street where a slaughterhouse is. The pigs screaming before death were unbearable for someone who extends his empathy to animals. Of course, we (at least in…

  • Why do famous persons with extremely high IQs never tell the number?

    I have a page about IQ estimates of geniuses. But why the estimates? The persons involved must likely have taken an IQ test in their lifetimes (excluding those who didn’t have that opportunity because we had no clue about the “g factor” back then). We may say it is their privacy, but people tend to…

  • Palestinians would nuke Israel if they could. Only a few media maintain objectivity in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Don’t get me wrong. If the Palestinians had the chance, they would nuke Israel. And while Israel defers from such a behavior, its crimes are absolutely despicable. Now put your emotions away, get rid of cognitive biases, fallacies, and formal logical mistakes. First, they seized their territory, then started conflict (and, of course, we cannot…

  • Psychiatry, the dubious science

    In the 1900’s there were automobiles, Einstein’s Theory of relativity, sophisticated mathematics, Newtonian physics, evolution theory, and then psychiatry. No hard evidence, no statistical evidence, just observance with all the observational biases. There was no schizophrenia but dementia praecox because of early onset and rapidly deteriorating cognitive deficits. Oh, wait! The cognitive deficits were remarkably…

  • Genes for baby from Neumann, Godel and Einstein

    Imagine combining these geniuses into one person. Since we have discovered the DNA, combining these 3 gentlemen is not impossible. Yes, it is a joke. The genes interactions are so specific that the born baby would possess intelligence quite close to above average or even average. But we should discover what genes are responsible for…

  • Measure IQ of every single world citizen

    If the IQ of every single world’s citizen was measured, the pool of geniuses would be radically extended. Intellectually gifted would be put to global education system founded by the developed nations. I strongly do believe there is Einstein or von Neumann among us but he didn’t get his chance. The whole thing wouldn’t be…

  • The Chinese or Indian Einstein will come someday

    Even though the Chinese or Indian schools can effectively kill the talent I firmly believe someone really talented would go through these obstacles. Basically, three billion people must produce someone as exceptional as Einstein was, no matter how rigid the state educational system is. When he or she starts showing signs of genius the Western…

  • Humanities vs. exact sciences

    Some people claim exact sciences and humanities are on the same level. They say the same things are done with different tools. Nothing can be far from the truth. Imagine Newton’s physics in the 1600s. The extremely complex and provable system of equations and their geometric illustrations. The same thing goes with Einstein’s Theory of…