11/13/13

Hayak

Borneo (for Almayer's Folly)

Kipling on lying, which we just read about in his autobiography

(links ended abruptly when we saw our bandwidth was running out!  Yikes!)

Morning work, Math Mammoth, Fred, Murderous Maths, Almayer, Einstein, Hayak, Kipling, all abridged to get down to town

Quiz

11/13/13 Quiz

1.  Where did Rudyard Kipling’s mother go when he entered boarding school?

2.  What poet hung out with his mother’s friends?

3.  When he was at boarding school, he had to stay there over the Easter holiday.  Was it horrible or fun?

4.  What was Stalky, M’Turk, and Beetle?

5.  Was the Malay girl taken in by Lingard happy or unhappy about it?  Why?

6.  What did she expect to happen after she was captured?  What did happen?

7.  Was she happy to marry Almayer?  Why or why not?

8.  Was Almayer happy to marry her?  Why or why not, do you think?  What were his plans for his married life?

9.  Did Almayer start to get rich after going into business with Lingard?  Why or why not?

10.  What does Hayak mean by a hierarchical society? 

11.  Has Goldbach’s idea been proven right or wrong?

12.  The light bubble is a model trying to show the relationship between t_____

and sp______, and how g___________ affects them.

13.  What does a light bubble look like when the ship is in the middle of empty space?  Describe, or draw a picture.

14.  What happens to our astronaut’s light bubble near a massive object?  Describe or draw.

15.  What happens to the poor guy’s bubble on the edge of a black hole? Describe or draw.

16.  What happens to his future inside a black hole?

Extra credit:

1.  What did one of the three women who watched after him do “on her knee before the fire”?

2.  What is the Goldbach conjecture?

3.  What is our future biased towards?  What would we have to do to overcome that bias?

4.  Using the model of the light bubble, or a time bubble, explain why apples are lazy.