QQC #14

"I was diangosed as hyperactive and my parents were told that I have a short attention span..."

wow I can just image this guy bouncing off the walls and the way he writes just seems like one of those quick talking things. These are some very useful and good techniques too.

How did he sit down and have the patience to write a book if he didn't want to use paper and pen to write down math problems?

QQC #13

"Yet we can not reach happiness by consciously looking for it."

I never really thought about it but it seems absolutely true.

I've never seen this before or thought about it before and I wonder how many people have seen this read it and actually have changed there lives

QQC #12

"You can approach it. You can home in on it. You can get really, really, really close to it. But like Cezanne, you can never touch it."

Well thats just annoying. I guess I see where there going but its frustrating thinking you can never get to the end.

They did an excellent job on explaining mastery but they never explained exactly what flow was. So what exactly is flow?

Ideas for senior project

Peddling a bike works what muscles and specific bike, person, and distant loosing how much calories

CPU's how much better are dual core over single or quad better then a dual core and 2.33 GHz over 3.0 GHz processor is the $$ worth it and how much faster


Historic currency calculator

QQC #11

"By the time we reach the 20th perfect number, its size has become unthinkable huge. The 20th prefect number has an astonishing 5,834 (its so big it would fill this entire page)."

That's insane and why do they even need to know this how often does this help or come up when trying to solve something.

Are these Perfect or other kinds of unique numbers even useful or are they just a cool thing to point out?

QQC #10

"The answer was long, but essentially said:..."


I think that's insane we have a radio that's 50 NM across. I cant even think how they would construct that.

Well that was the last page that i could read and i would really like to know what Budhha "essentially said".

QQC #9

"... You would have struggled to tell the difference between six apples and seven."


I could see how counting might not have been a Strong thing for people or anything else back then but I think that they could still count and see the difference between 9 and 10 no problem. Maybe not think to deep about it but still able to tell the difference.

How could they tell that people had trouble between 6 and 7? that just sounds like a wild guess to me

QQC #8

"This is chiefly because i am never satisfied until i have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far ore time than writing at length. One of the effects of this habit is that his publications concealed almost as much as they revealed..."

I could see how fewer words could make it easy and less time consuming to understand but at the same time like it says up top what if there isn't enough info.

Why would he use fewer words if it "concealed" something especially in his proofs.

QQC #7

"The publication of his complete works was started in 1911, and the end is not in sight."

You think if this guy was so bright and had so much worked published that was proved that people would have noticed more now and then. I myself have never heard of him until this packet.

Why don't we learn more about him or is not not taught until college?

QQC #6

"...More than 15,000 letters written by Leibniz in correspondence with 1063 different people."


Thats a lot of people. Most people now days probably don't even know 1000 people to talk to that have similar interest.

I wonder if during talking the each other how often all these people didn't get along and if there were always a couple different sides going back and forth on a topic.

QQC #5

"In 1665 an outbreak of the plague caused the university to close, and Newton returned to his home in the country, where he remained until 1667. There, in two years of rustic solitude- from age 22 to 24- his creative genius burst forth in a flood of discoveries unmatched in the history of human thought..."

That's weird I think I would work better at a campus full of people exploring and trying to learn things. Instead of back in the country with not that much to do.

How bored could he have been out there in the country to learn all of these things instead of at a university?

QQC #4

"...in the company of men such as the economist Adam Smith,the chemist Joseph Black, and the philosopher David Hume, as well as such occasional visiting sparks as Benjamin Franklin and James Watt."

How cool is that, all these famous people all meeting together to discuss theories and ideas. I knew a lot of them were around the same time but I didn't know they would meet up and do this. This sounds awesome and would have been great to be at one of those meetings.

One question I have is I wonder if they didn't all work off of each other and have these meetings if they would have gotten some major idea's from one another that they came up with.

QQC#3

"Almost at once things began to go wrong, sometimes spectacularly so."

That just sounds bad like it is delightful to watch someone die or find out how they died. I'm amazed at how these people were able to find out how the world was shaped and the size way back then. This article was alright, some of the writing bugged me chapter three was way better.

I don't know if most people do this in grade school or something but how where they able to find out the earths shape and how it moves and all these things way back then?

QQC #2

"To reach it by spaceship would take at least
twenty-five thousand years"

This is very dissapointing we can see all of this stuff and even if we do see life we cant even meet them in personj.

Shouldn't there be someway to travel like those perfectly perseved animals in ice or something else that are still alive. Just freeze someone and somehow defrost themselves after 20,000 years of travel.

Blog #1

"for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you."

I think this can be fascinating to some people and I guess I can see how it is useful to know for the greater of human kind. However this stuff just bugs me. It's down to stuff so small that we can't see and it seems like were going to too small of particles. I don't know why but it get's under my skin and I don't really like studying it at all.