Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

How would you measure the size of rain drops?

"Many people are not only incompetent, they are in denial about how incompetent they are." David Brooks in The Social Animal made me smile.

"What we call rational grounds are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts." - Thomas Henry Huxley

I used to take covert pleasure in seeing short-sighted leaders fail, then I realized it is other who are affected by it.

I'm reading Gleick's Genius: "if there was baloney, Feynman would find it." May we all be Feymans.

Theories are provisional, but not arbitrary, not mere social constructs.

Richard Feynman's father valued "process over fact" (James Gleick) as he explored with his son

Educators are not engineers. They can prototype and test their solutions. In education, every solution is experienced!

This remains cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkYD3wEuKbY

I tweeted this in 2015. is it still true?
Why will artificial intelligence never match human intelligence? AI lacks culture and relevant beliefs about what it "knows"

The first phonographs had modest market until used for music. I expect this was one reason that iPods came before iPhones.

When psychics impress audiences with cold reading, I shake my head, sigh, & morn for our collective intelligence. #science #pseudoscience

Playful does not mean inconsequential. - Edward Tenner #teaching #education #learning

#Science requires we (and others!) observe repeatedly and consistently. #religion #politics have no such requirement.

UFO & other pseudoscience books listed in science section of discount book catalog that arrived today. Amused. Copy editor must be confused.

Stephen Jay Gould deconstructed irrelevant, invalid, unreliable testing in Mismeasure of Man in 1982.

Why do #politics & #science not mix? Scientists change based on evidence and reason; change is sign of weakness in politics.

I tend to trust people with shelves of containing books i have read. #books

Is "expert on paranormal" an oxymoron or a synonym for idiot?

Ernst Mayer on #Darwin as pioneer, "remove cold uncertainties and created new ones." That's why the curious have passion for #science