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Picture this: you wake up in the morning after hitting the snooze button twice. You’re still feeling sluggish but you need to bounce lest your manager berate you for tardiness again. You load a k-pod into your Keurig and 3 raw eggs into your Eggspresso which takes you 30 seconds tops. For the next 3ContinueContinue reading “Eggspresso”

https://youtu.be/56R0j-nlmV4 Most of us know viscosity as how “thick” or “sticky” a liquid is. For example, honey has a high viscosity while water has a low viscosity. However, the formal definition of viscosity is the “tendency of a fluid to resist shear stress”, and viscosity can actually be measured in Pascal-seconds [Pa-s]. How is thisContinueContinue reading “Viscosity Meter”

Managerial Accounting I went into this course dreading it for what I anticipated to come. UGBA 102A, Financial Accounting, though never technically challenging, boiled down to knowledge of a library of accounting rules set out by GAAP to help companies accurately convey their financial status to external investors and the public. Studying for 102A examsContinueContinue reading “UGBA 102B”

René Descartes, the 17th century French philosopher whose mind was at work at the height of the Scientific Revolution, was a cornerstone philosopher whose ideas have stood the test of time. Although he is best known for being the creator of the XYZ cartesian coordinate system, geometry as we know it, and the bedrock forContinueContinue reading “Cartesian Philosophy”

Descartes attempts to establish the existence of an infinite higher being, namely God, via the method of causal proof.  Causal proof is built on a basis of two forms of reality and the transferring of said realities between a cause and its effect.  Formal realities are most aptly characterized as tangible realities and are rankedContinueContinue reading “Proving God Exists… Casually”

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes takes it upon himself to cast aside all that he has previously known by finding clear reason for doubt, and he uses his “blank cognitive slate” as a basis for finding certainty.  After establishing that our senses deceive us, Descartes must establish something he can claim with certaintyContinueContinue reading ““I think, therefore I am””

Descartes establishes the ideas of intuition, deduction, and enumeration as a set of tools used to acquire knowledge with a significant degree of certainty.  However, the definitions of the three ideas are neither mutually exclusive nor exhaustive in their coverage of all knowledge acquisition tactics.  These ideas may build upon, overlap, or even oppose eachContinueContinue reading “On the Acquisition and Ascertainment of Knowledge”