Why is a Permanent Thing Inefficacious?

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Why the Real Thing Is Essential for Telling Our Stories

Museum Victoria possesses the only intact first generation electronic stored program computer left in the world. Real things, like CSIRAC, are entry portals to a past era. Along with contemporary documents and records, they are the closest we can get to time travel. They complement historical records. Historical records are not substitutes for the real thing, neither are replicas or facsimiles....

Is Cooperation a Good Thing?

Is the Internet a Thing?

N o, I'm not trying to apply the term " Inter-net of Things " recursively, though it would be fun to give the root domain file an IP address and have it be reachable. I'm just using a current colloquial expression to ask what the Internet actually is, and who might own it. I'm asking these questions because of the announcement that ICANN will move out of US Department of Commerce authority (and...

Is Interactivity a Good Thing

This paper investigates whether adding interactivity to diagrammatic representations aids learning. More specifically, the analyses focus on the extent to which 3D interactive diagrams facilitate the comprehension of a geometry concept, the stereographic projection, that is usually taught using 2D diagrams. Four Interactive Learning Environments (ILE) were built in order to test the effectivene...