Science and Engineering: Innovation, Research, Education and Economics
November 27, 2006
13 things that do not make sense

13 things that do not make sense by Michael Brooks discusses such things as dark matter, the horizon problem and the placebo effect:

Don’t try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.

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