Category: - Makc

December 30th, 2020

12/30/2020

The Benjamin Franklin Effect.
This particular form of self-delusion has to do with our tendency to do nice things to people we like and bad things to those we dislike. But what the psychology behind the effect reveals is an inverse relationship — a reverse-engineering of attitudes that takes place as we grow to like people for whom we do nice things and dislike those to whom we are unkind. This curious effect is named after a specific incident early in the Founding Father’s political career.

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December 23rd, 2020

12/23/2020

When I give talks on factoring, I often repeat an incident that happened to me long ago in high school. I was involved in a math contest, and one of the problems was to factor the number 8051. A time limit of five minutes was given. It is not that we were not allowed to use pocket calculators; they did not exist in 1960, around when this event occurred! Well, I was fairly good at arithmetic, and I was sure I could trial divide up to the square root of 8051 (about 90) in the time allowed. But on any test, especially a contest, many students try to get into the mind of the person who made it up. Surely they would not give a problem where the only reasonable approach was to try possible divisors frantically until one was found. There must be a clever alternate route to the answer. So I spent a couple of minutes looking for the clever way, but grew worried that I was wasting too much time. I then belatedly started trial division, but I had wasted too much time, and I missed the problem. …
The trick is to write 8051 as 8100 – 49, which is 902 – 72, so we may use algebra, namely, factoring a difference of squares, to factor 8051. It is 83 × 97.

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November 09th, 2020

11/9/2020

New York
November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply — of course it isn’t puppy love.
But I don’t think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it — and that I can tell you.
Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.
The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
If you love someone — there is no possible harm in saying so — only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.
It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another — but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.
Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I’m glad you have it.
We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
Love,
Fa

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August 02nd, 2020

8/2/2020

April 24th, 2020

4/24/2020

1. Давайте по една ескимоска целувка (знаете ги, от онези забавните нос в нос)
2. Започвайте „война“ с гъделичкане.
3. Казвайте „Много си мил/а.“
4. Състезавайте се с пазарски колички в магазина.
5. Измислете тайно ръкостискане.
6. Гледайте луната, преди да се приберете вечер вкъщи.
7. Поемайте си дълбоко въздух и бройте до 5 заедно.
8. Питайте „За какво си благодарен/а днес?“
9. Танцувайте в колата на червен светофар.
10. Състезавайте се до най-близкото дърво.
11. Прегръщайте се.
12. Правете животни със сенки на стената.
13. Занесете на детето си студен чай или горещ шоколад просто така.
14. Състезавайте се за най-смешна физиономия.
15. Изпейте песничката за азбуката, колкото можете по-бързо.
16. Издавайте смешни животински звуци.
17. Наблюдавайте как се труди мравка.
18. Скачайте в локвите.
19. Нарисувайте смешна картинка.
20. Гледайте децата в очите, когато говорите с тях.
21. Състезавайте се кой ще издържи най-дълго, докато се гледате един друг.
22. Поделете си парченце шоколад.
23. Помогнете им да си изберат книга.
24. Скачайте на леглото заедно.
25. Напишете телефона на баба и им позволете те да ѝ се обадят.
26. Чешете ги по гръбчетата.
27. Смигвайте им смешно.
28. Подсвирквайте си някаква мелодия.
29. Разказвайте смешки.
30. Казвайте „Обичам те“.

April 23rd, 2020

4/23/2020

Children’s CharterThis charter was developed by over 700 children in Squamish in 2016.
Charter of Rights

I have the right to a family and friends.
I have the right to survive. I have the right to a warm home, to food, to clothing and to sleep.
I have the right to a clean environment, including fresh air and fresh water.
I have the right to peace, to be free and to live in a safe world.
I have the right to choice, to my own beliefs and be happy and to love who I want and to be loved.
I have the right to play, to exercise and to recreation. I have the right to nature, to be outside, to explore, to imagine and to create.
I have the right to be who I want and to be respected for it. I have the right to express myself, to have a voice, to speak out and to be included.
I have the right to safety and to feel safe, to trust someone and the right to privacy.
I have the right to an education.
I have the right to health care.
I have the right to have equal rights and to know that I have rights.

March 07th, 2020

3/7/2020

Maxims of Goethe:

When a rainbow has lasted as long as a quarter of an hour we stop looking at it.
Researching into nature we are pantheists, writing poetry we are polytheists, morally we are monotheists.
Considered historically, our good points appear in a moderate light, our faults excuse themselves.
To do well you need talent, to do good you need means.
For surely everyone only hears what he understands.
If you miss the first buttonhole, you can't ever get fully buttoned up.
You really only know when you know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
People think one ought to be busy with them when one isn't busy with oneself.
Acumen is least likely to desert clever men when they are in the wrong.
One doesn't find frogs wherever there is water, but there is water where you hear frogs.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but not more interesting than contemplating.
Everyone manages to have just about enough strength left to act according to his convictions.
Let memory fail as long as our judgment remains intact when needed.
Dirt glitters when the sun happens to shine.
Beauty can never be clear about itself.
Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.

"There are people who ponder about their friends' shortcomings: there's nothing to be gained by that. I have always been on the lookout for the merits of my opponents, and this has been rewarding."

February 10th, 2020

2/10/2020

These spiral stairs, in the Pio-Clementino Museum in Vatican City, take the form of a double helix — there are two heads and two feet, so that one party can descend while another ascends and the two will never meet.
Designed in 1932 by Giuseppe Momo, the stairs are modeled on a much earlier stair by Donato Bramante, which occupies a square tower in the Belvedere palace of Pope Innocent VIII. Like the museum stair, it allows traffic to travel in both directions without impediment.

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January 28th, 2020

1/28/2020

October 04th, 2018

10/4/2018