Da Vinci Days
2002
Oregonians for Rationality booth

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Strategies

to show the power of simple math
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Handouts to suggest:  1) Trying to fill the bottom layer without using any of the three 1X1X3 pieces;  2)  Substituting a 1X2X3 piece for two of the 1X1X3 pieces;  3) making  your own one of these, perhaps with alternate pieces (that can eliminate the solution); ? (Additional suggestions please)
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2002 Web presentation

to illustrate deception
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Handouts to suggest:  1) Make your own, and use it as a magic trick; 2) The power of deception in creating pseudoscience (self-deception because we stop looking when we find what we like) and in persuading others through advertising, gulling people to get taken by what they don't understand (gambling); ? (Additional suggestions please)

2002 Web presentation

Make badges for each puzzle
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................ and let them disseminate
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Have you seen...

Da Vinci Days
Oregonians for Rationality Booth
How might our perceptions deceive us?
How might others deceive us?
How might we deceive ourselves?
How can we see the magic of science?
How might we become able to use science?
Math, too?

 
Why should we want to?
Surf this site for some answers.
Details will appear here next month.
explorepdx.com will have this (or something similar)
as it's lead "Have you noticed?" panel for July.
The "details" will be posted in mid July as Web pages
to follow things learned and puzzles posed
at Da Vinci Days and referred to in handouts.





life after death
tritanopia
alien-abduction
remote viewing
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Loch Ness monster
out-of-body travel

.....channeling
extraterrestrial visits to Earth
quantum jump
recovered memories
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psychic healing		 astrology
therapeutic touch
precognition
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shroud of Turin
theomatics
Bermuda Triangle
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magical pyramids

synesthesia

 reincarnation

perpetual motion
telekinesis
 creationism

free energy
anti-evolution
angels
 black holes in space 

spiritual possession
dowsing
homeopathy
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Quantum Leap
Bigfoot
biorhythms
ESP
Are any of these recognized as reasonable hypotheses by experts in its branch of science?
Which ones are so contradicted by known science that they are virtually imposible?
Which ones have only flimsy evidence but are perhaps possible?
Which ones lack credible evidence by reasonable standards?

Opinion survey

     hypothesis impossible    unlikely   no evidence   proven           comments
therapeutic touch
telekinesis
Quantum Leap
free energy
Bigfoot
reincarnation
tritanopia
     etc
      .		   _____         _____        _____       _____
  _____         _____        _____       _____
  _____         _____        _____       _____
  _____         _____        _____       _____
  _____         _____        _____       _____ 
  _____         _____        _____       _____
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The results are on the Da Vinci Days 2003 page.
 


WHAT PATTERNS
do you see?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

to be continued...



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Psuedoscience Problem
Outlines for handouts
Da Vinci Days 2002