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Zhu Haijun: Force Does Not Need Acquired Inheritance

History of Science & Scholarship2007.06.18
Zhu Haijun: Force Does Not Need Acquired Inheritance
Zhu Hairun’s Force Taken from KeyinWiki Definition An evolutionary driving force proposed by the amateur scientist Zhu Hairun, used to explain why human beings walk upright. Zhu Hairun believed that among animals, only human beings engage in face-to-face sex, and only human beings walk upright; therefore, face-to-face intercourse must be the main reason human beings walk upright. He explained that when our remote ancestors engaged in face-to-face sex, the female pelvis was subjected to downward pressure from the male, thereby gradually changing its structure, so that women could gradually begin to walk upright. And since all men are born of women, the mother’s upright manner of walking, through reproduction…
science evolution folk science
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2007年6月18日
A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: As Lao Zhao Put It

History of Science & Scholarship2007.03.22
A Discussion on the Teachers’ Blogs: As Lao Zhao Put It
The disciplines are the same. There are two important differences between the natural sciences and the humanities: 1. Scientific papers must be innovative. Scientific papers have a set format; in the first chapter after the abstract, they explain what innovations the paper contains. A paper with no innovation is utterly worthless and cannot be accepted by academic journals. The humanities are different: even peddling some foreign trash can become a paper. 2. The natural sciences do not permit nonsense; the humanities do. No matter how innovative your idea may be, if it lacks evidence and is merely subjective conjecture, scientific academic journals will not publish it. For example, Jianyi’s theory…
science Scientific Revolution Liu Huajie Kuhn
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2007年3月22日
[Eng] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998

History of Science & Scholarship2006.04.09
[Eng] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998
[English] Peter Singer: “Fermat’s Last Theorem—A Mystery That Puzzled the Wise of the World for 358 Years,” translated by Xue Mi, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, February 1998 I don’t really have much time to read light books, but just then I happened to be back in Shanghai and saw this book on the bookshelf. I picked it up for a quick look, and then I simply couldn’t put it down; I had to read it straight through in one go. It was absolutely wonderful. Although I had already learned something about the history surrounding Fermat’s Last Theorem through other reading, this book is a thematic treatment. It is very well…
book reading notes history mathematics
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2006年4月9日
Xu Jinhua’s Lecture

Life & Notes2006.04.02
Xu Jinhua’s Lecture
Pretty interesting. Mr. Xu was very witty. But he does indeed seem to have a bit of a folk-science air about him. His “integrated waterway” sounds far too mystical; to fantasize about solving “all environmental problems” through such a technology, even if Mr. Xu insists that this is not technology but science, is still a bit too naive. As for the “fundamental error of Einstein,” that was the weak point of Mr. Xu’s lecture this time. Of course, science must oppose blind faith in authority, but scientific masters are after all masters—how could they be so easily refuted? Wave-particle duality is after all persuasive; not to mention photons and light…
everyday life science scientific spirit Einstein
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2006年4月2日
I read a crank-science paper… @_@

History of Science & Scholarship2006.03.03
I read a crank-science paper… @_@
Today I finally, astonishingly, read through an entire paper by a “popular-science crank”: http://hk.netsh.com/eden/bbs/6214/html/tree_7386694.html Alas, every paper by a popular-science crank is a classic. They have quite distinctive features: their first-order research is a mess, but their second-order research is actually quite meaningful. Since reading 《Four-Dimensional Mechanics》 back in high school, this is once again the chance encounter that has led me to a complete popular-science-crank article; revisiting it a bit is fine too, fortunately I still remember what a popular-science crank is all about…… First let me quote a few funny lines: This paper is the product of the author’s many years of thought, and has recently been thoroughly…
book reading notes Scientific Revolution Liu Huajie
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2006年3月3日
Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song

History of Science & Scholarship2005.07.31
Perpetual Motion Machines and the Goldbach Conjecture / by Tian Song
《Perpetual Motion Machines and Goldbach’s Conjecture》By Tian Song, Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 2003.11 The most striking manifestation of the current public lack of scientific literacy is how readily people “believe” things; the core of the scientific spirit lies in “doubt”! But I often do not like to bring up this word, because advocating a spirit of “doubt” often leads to misunderstandings. For example, the abuse of doubt. Tian Song’s little book *Perpetual Motion Machines and Goldbach’s Conjecture: Science in the Jianghu* offers many other forms of misunderstanding the scientific spirit—namely, pseudoscience. The prevalence of pseudoscience is also closely related to the direction of public opinion in society. Society has…
book reading notes scientific spirit Copernicus
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2005年7月31日