| Obvious yet unobserved phenomena | Persistent and pervasive beliefs that are seen as absurd by those who look at them with more appropriate "perception." | Oversimplified "solutions" that are superficially attractive but ultimately disastrous. | and...
Solutions lie in unsuspected dimensions. |
| Sun angle and sunburnX
Date of earliest sunsetX Tensor rank orderX The temperature cliffX PLEASE HELP EXTEND THIS LIST |
PseudoscienceX
All men: "equal" is not "same" PLEASE HELP EXTEND THIS LIST |
GamblingX
Cost/benefit ratioX Tollgate economics on this site in a hidden "politics" location: look for butterflies. |
Evolution and drug abuseX
Investing in real value PLEASE HELP EXTEND THIS LIST |
| Carrying silt to the sea is nature's task, and you can't cheat Mother Nature. | The "energy" of electrical power generation is not the "energy" of Aristotle. | The "value" of a kayak on Lake Powell cannot be expressed as a scalar. | Don't overlook the power of the Internet. |
Dimensionality (some branches of science know it as "degrees of freedom") is a powerful concept that is almost always misunderstood. The ways we see and conceptualize color exemplifies the concepts and the misconceptions.