I have a son who's currently a first year physics student. As you can imagine, I occasionally pass along a link or two to him pointing to stuff on the web I think he might find particularly interesting or useful. Thinking on that fact, I surmised that perhaps other science students might find those links interesting or useful as well. Hence, this series of posts here on the blog.
By necessity and circumstance, the items I've chosen will be influenced by my son's choice of major and my own interest in computational approaches to science.
- Meet Science: What is "peer review"?
- Gödel's Proof of Incompleteness!
- Some Astonishingly Bad Professional Advice (And by extension, some good advice)
- Building Your E-Village
- Secrets of the Most Successful College Students
- The Philosophie of Gaps
- How to Determine If A Controversial Statement Is Scientifically True (similar here)
- Two Solitudes Illustrated (academia vs. industry)
- Computational Thinking
- The philosophy of the Higgs
- Why Should You Think Like a Scientist?
- Modern Physics and Scientific Thinking
The previous post in this series is here.
More like this
It's been a while since I've replied to anything over at Uncommon Descent. But this entry from Salvador Cordova really caught my eye.
A docudrama by Piet Hoenderdos on Douglas Hofstadter, philosopher and author of one of the greatest books ever published, Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.
"If a 'religion' is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one." -John Barrow
* After watching The China Syndrome tonight, I will henceforth refrain from saying "Coffee is for closers!" when I see Jack Lemmon on screen.
Thanks. Very appropriate links and info for a rational, scientific approach to life.
You may be interested in http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2013/03/28/george-box/