The Marocharim Experiment

The worst way to begin this entry would be to say, “I was shocked with the death of Michael Jackson.”  Another bad way to begin this entry would be to say, “I grew up with the music of Michael Jackson.”  We’re all shocked with his death, and we all grew up with his music, and [...]

Under normal conditions, the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition. – Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions It’s not as much Copernicus disproving Ptolemy’s model, [...]