User:Da Vynci

Articles worth reading:

• Brave New World
• Technological singularity
• End of civilization Humanity section
• Prisoner's dilemma
• impossible object
• Non-apology apology & Non-denial denial
• Double entendre
• Classical cipher
• Cartoon physics
• Allegory of the Cave

other interesting subjects:

• Random act of kindness
• Ventriloquism
• Cryptomnesia
• Unsolved problems in philosophy
• You have two cows
• Steganography
• List of Latin phrases
• Unusual articles in Wikipedia
• Social engineering
• Reverse engineering
• List of cognitive biases

I was shocked to find out the following were once permitted officially by governments in our so called civilisation.

• Trial by ordeal
• Trial by combat
• Forced disappearance
• Witch trial

Other shocking subjects/event:

• Kamikaze
• School massacre
• Nevada-tan

Artists that I like: Jeffrey Smart | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | J. M. W. Turner | John William Waterhouse | M. C. Escher.

Interesting writers: Ni Kuang | Louis Cha | Plato | J. K. Rowling | Dame Agatha Christie | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Other interesting books/texts:

• Form, L. Peter Kollar,1983
• Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art, by Ananda Coomaraswamy,1956
• The Mark of Butterfly ( 蝴蝶的記號 ), by Xue Chen ( 陳雪 ), circa 1990
• Right hand, Left hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, by Chris McMaus, 2002
• Looking for Alibrandi, by Melina Marchetta, 1992
• The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1909
• The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, circa 11th century
• Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den ( 施氏食獅史 ) , by Zhao Yuanren, date unknown

About me

This user is male.

This user uses Commonwealth spelling.

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This user is left-handed.	This user prefers the metric system.	This user does not smoke.
This user would like to own one or more dogs.

Ideologies

This user enjoys philosophy.	This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.	This user is interested in the belief that death is an acceptable part of life.
This user is straight but not narrow.	PC This user is pro-choice.	該用戶認為漢字簡化破壞了漢字之美。 This user thinks that the beauty of Chinese characters is ruined by simplifying them.
This user supports recycling.

Interest

This user enjoys origami.	This user is an art lover.	This user enjoys photography.
This user is a music composer.	This user flies RC Planes and does NOT think they're toys!	PSYThis user's favorite subject is Psychology.
This user enjoys woodworking.