When creating, would you pursue a simple premise you know you can execute to perfection, or would you pursue a really complex you know might flop? [more inside]
posted by world b free on Mar 19, 2009 - 7 answers

Any pointers to books/people/readers/papers on heuristics in morality? [more inside]
posted by not sure this is a good idea on Aug 3, 2008 - 4 answers

Are some languages objectively harder than others? If so, which ones? [more inside]
posted by greytape on Apr 30, 2008 - 48 answers

Do scientists have an accurate way to measure complexity? Are they able to compare a human body with a city, for example, and say that one is more or less complicated or complex than the other?
posted by cgc373 on May 25, 2007 - 22 answers

Music with an edge - terms to characterize this, where to find/learn more? [more inside]
posted by Listener on Dec 31, 2006 - 23 answers

This research claims that there aren't any blind schizophrenics. Basically, it says that blindness could protect against schizophrenia, but because of typically later age of onset for blindness (mostly results of glaucoma and macular degenration), I wonder if schizophrenia could somehow protect against blindness. Does anyone have an opinion on this? [more inside]
posted by srs on Nov 3, 2006 - 15 answers

I'm doing some research for a paper about the ways in which computer science has been coping with program complexity throughout its short yet interesting history, and I'm worrying I might have overlooked some fundamental developments. [more inside]
posted by koenie on Aug 16, 2005 - 10 answers