From the monthly archives:

March 2007

Background noise

by The Crazy Colombian on March 31, 2007

in Personal Development, Reflection

I recently heard an inter­est­ing show on ‘Radio National’ talked about the effect that noise has on the class­room . It talked about how noise dis­tracts stu­dents, and in extreme cases, a seem­ingly minor dis­trac­tion can change the mean­ing of the whole les­son.
It gave the exam­ple of a children’s story read to a group of […]

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The above is a quote from “The Way of the peace­ful war­rior”, an insight­ful tale of self-discovery by Dan Mill­man. Taken at face value, it makes you reflect on the con­stant change that rep­re­sent our lives. ince every­thing dies and changes, noth­ing that makes us happy (or sad) will be there for­ever.
The per­son that looks […]

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Leave comments… anonymously

by The Crazy Colombian on March 3, 2007

in Announcement

Announce­ment: after vehe­ment feed­back from friends and foes that my blog did not allow anony­mous writ­ing of com­ments, I have made the nec­es­sary amend­ments.
Go crazy: leave com­ments when­ever you feel like it. Other peo­ple may appre­ci­ate your perspectives.

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Image: blue on a tree by Car­los R
 
Who would have thought that an eso­teric branch of math­e­mat­ics could explain some of the cur­rent prob­lems of poor mex­i­cans? Chaos the­ory explains the lat­est prob­lem for this seg­ment of Mex­i­can soci­ety.
At the heart of this argu­ment lies the clas­sic ‘but­ter­fly effect’. Accord­ing to Wikipedia,the but­ter­fly effect “… […]

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