Oversimplification

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
-Karl Popper

A miscellany of under-researched ideas.

Some of these may've been thought of before. If they have been, put a link in a comment and I'll be happy to acknowledge prior art.

All original ideas and inventions here and the text itself are open-source and are licenced under the GNU General Public Licence.

Thursday, 12 January 2017

HardClever

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By now there must be a lot of people who actually believe that little glowing lights move along their axons and dendrites when they thi...
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Saturday, 17 December 2016

TubeFreight

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Occasionally one sees a freight train like this one on the London Tube. If you want to move something smaller, like a parcel, quickly ...
1 comment:
Tuesday, 18 October 2016

MemoryLane

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Google Street View  lets you go anyplace on Earth that Google's cameras have previously visited (which is pretty much everywhere) and...
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Wednesday, 31 August 2016

DashDot

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Amazon now have their Dash button that allows you to buy a restricted range of goods from, surprise - Amazon - when something runs out. ...
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Tuesday, 16 February 2016

GunAngel

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Steven Pinker 's famous book The Better Angels of our Nature  posits four reasons for the decline in violence that has happened and ...
Monday, 1 February 2016

PhoneChat

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It is quite entertaining to listen in when my daughter (who's not the woman in the photo above) gets a scam telephone call.  She set...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015

SprogWort

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The very wonderful Ben Goldacre rightly has it in for (among others) journalists who misrepresent scientific research to generate a com...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

EmitCisum

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BBC Radio 3 has a competition in the mornings where they play an excerpt from a piece of music backwards and ask listeners to identify it...
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