Rationality in practice!

“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.” In retrospect, it seems that this famous quote by Aristotle has been my guide in my close relationships. I’ve always been preoccupied by the truth, and more recently this truth has been restricted to what is obtained in the process of rational thought processes. Unfortunately [...]

Problem solving and scientific approach (4)

“It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.”
William of Occam
“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”
Isaac Newton
“The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as [...]

…nostalgia (2)

Listen to Hotel California by Eagles from here .
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard [...]

Problem solving and scientific approach (3)

In scientific research nothing is being proved; better to say nothing even CAN be proved. All what a scientist hopes is to” reject” what is called the “null hypothesis” in order to “provide support” for an “alternative hypothesis”.  Say we hypothesized that the earth is round; now instead of trying to find evidence that the [...]

…nostalgia

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Listen to “Imagine” by John Lennon from here …
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m [...]

Problem solving and scientific approach (2)

Puzzle: The individuals are given a simple test; there are 4 cards on the table, and each card has one letter on one side and one number on the other side of it. Obviously everyone can see only one side of the card. Two of the cards have letters and two of them have numbers [...]

Problem solving and scientific approach (1)

“All life is problem solving”
Karl R. Popper

Recently, some misconduct happened in the blogs that I read, with some people writing nasty comments either anonymously or using other peoples’ names. After contacting some of the blog owners and comparing more that 40 IPs (in total) everything became clear. I really do not want to hear anything [...]

Culture Shock and Social Identity

The short article that you are about to read is just based on my personal observations, so its factual accuracy may be questionable. Any comments or feedbacks will be appreciated.
Cultural differences have always amazed me. One good thing about living in a cosmopolitan city is that you exposed to a variety of perspectives and cultural [...]

I’m back!

Hi all,
My break from blogging was a bit longer than I had expected. For a while I was really busy with my schoolwork, teaching, and research, but after that I think I was just being too lazy to write a new post.
I received some good news during the last week: First the book chapter [...]