Da Vinci Days 2003
Oregonians for Rationality
in the Children's Pavillion
July 18-20
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Keep track of
the magic you discover!
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illusions
THINK!
  PUZZLES  
  weirdness
magic
 
tricks
 
deceptions
 
new perceptions 
 
Science    
surprises
 Un-Science
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Look again!

 
Your mind can do strange things to your senses!
You can't always believe what you see!

...or don't see.

Experience the magical Human Kaleidoscope!

And watch yourself disappear
into the Vampire Mirror.
Assuming you are a vampire, of course



And take some simple, but serious, steps
toward really understanding science.

Some are easy.
Some are not.
All show you magic in places you 
may not have thought to look.

 
 
 
 

It's easy, but it has a secret
 


Sometimes you can get the dominos on all the squares.
Sometimes you can't.
But why?
 
 

Become an "Ask Me" person who can help
others understand some of the tricks of science:
CLICK ON THE BADGES AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE

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It's easy to make a cube out of the blocks.
And it's even easier to make it very, very difficult.

Learn how.  Learn why. 
Discover the magic of math.

easy math -- simple math
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Science starts with observation.
(Pseudoscience starts with wondrous wishes.)
Statistics is skilled observation. 

This puzzle reveals 
the magic of statistics
Observation reveals the answer
SWITCH      STAY

CLICK ON THE TUBES
The nuts in the tubes statistically show you the correct answer to the puzzle.  But why do so few people recognize that they do?
 
 
Learn how to make the 
solution to this puzzle disappear.

Click on the above to go to Da Vinci Days 2002
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Sometimes we know something in a special way that cannot be denied...

...and science is a steady flow of discoveries that we have been wrong in ways we never suspected possible. 


Click on the odd paint job to discover some of those ways:
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Science is not what it seems at first glance
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Click on a step to discover what you can see from it that you can't see from lower down.

These pages will continue to be developed
to be a guide to take you on an excursion
into real--and useful--science,
into more of the magic of the mind,
and into fun ways to amaze your friends
...and yourself.


Seeing science is seeing a lot of kinds of errors we never realized we can make.
Doing science is avoiding those errors.

...and making new science?
It helps if we understand why we make such errors.