Recent content by Knavish

No, not at all! I downloaded all of the SC "songs," as they're called on the Blizzard website, and I thought that as the nostalgia would wear off I'd listen to them less and less. But I haven't. The songs actually have musical value! (Actually, now that I've clicked on your link, I see...

I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm not sure how far you're into your education, but I was fortunate enough to grab myself right after calculus and introductory mechanics. After I found Courant and Kleppner and Kolenkow, I felt outright deceived by my teachers; from then on most of...

I don't believe chess can be "solved." Strategy--which fundamentally rests on psychology--appears to be an essential element of it.

Have you read the replies given in your other threads? Answers await.

Go ride your bike!

Chess is a beautiful sport.

This has already been posted in the thread. I believe it gives an inaccurate representation, actually. The "thief" here was too casual and confident; so much so that others probably assumed that it was his own bicycle he was trying to free. No real thief would dare spend minutes conspicuously...

I admit I shouldn't have used the vague term "the best" and should have simply stuck to the general case (second post). But what I meant were the obvious greats: Galilelo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger. At any rate, it's clear that the transition I made was...

Go ahead and name one. I can scarcely think of a single genuine scientist who was arrogant. Science fosters humility; it shows that their is a world beyond and irrespective of our everyday lives. Some scientists might accept and admit that they are "gifted," but this is not the meaning of...

The best physicists and mathematicians have been able to free themselves entirely of selfish desires such as this; that is what you should aim for.

cronxeh, Apparently she was doing her job well, though. If anything, this shows that degrees are not what are important for a job such as this.

Not the mention the alternate message of the symbol used for "O."

Does anyone know the song used in that video? Now there's ambient music that would be nice to read to.

The lighting in robphy's is really nice. I would have voted for Moonbear's if she had dried off the water (and not used a rubber band--cheater!).

This is a classic example of Prisoner's Dillema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma. In the chart given in Wikipedia, replace stays silent with forms into a group, betrays with stays single, and the rest accordingly (unscathed / wounded / critically wounded / death). Each...