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My name is Adam Krellenstein, and I'm a Wikipedian: I love Wikipedia and I use it for everything. I'm so addicted that I carry it around in my pocket. I read and edit compulsively on almost any topic, most of the time, though, in the sciences or arts. Oh, and I like to write about topics that I initially know nothing about, thereby exposing myself to a whole new field and learning much in the process. I'm also a grammarian, an empirical rationalist, humanist; I am an antitheist and an agnostic atheist who doesn't believe in space-faring teapots; and I'm a skeptic and oppose pseudoscience. I'm a philomath, and I aim to also be a polymath one day.




A list of articles

Attempted masterworks:Sylvia (ballet); Roman Vishniac; Atomic line filter

Started or rewritten or something: Fermi point (nanotech); Fermi point (QFT); Kong in Concert; Henry Marrow; Micro black hole; Nescafé; Staples High School; San Francisco Ballet; City of Angels (musical); Lankayan Island; Weber bar; Wolf V. Vishniac; Vishniac (crater); Feynman sprinkler; Sugud Islands Marine Conservation Area; Photomicroscopy; Barton's Pendulums; La Source; American Society of Media Photographers; Sail twist; Most common words in English; Oxford English Corpus; Voigt effect; Sunrise equation; Compton wavelength; Longshore Sailing School; Radiation trapping; Cod philosophy

Declaration of Bias

Everyone has his/her own biases, and in general it is as well to be aware of them in yourself, so you can balance them out. (The idea for this came from Solipsist)

User:Cryptic/fake babel boxes are silly

Philosophy

"1. The primary aim of an encyclopedia should be to teach. It should seek only secondarily to inform.

2. An encyclopedia should be primarily a work of art. It should be only secondarily a work of reference.

3. The point of a view of an encyclopedia should be primarily human. It should be only secondarily historical and/or scientific and/or literary.

4. The ideal reader of an encyclopedia should be primarily the curious average man. He should only secondarily be the specialist and/or the high school student.

5. An encyclopedia should be primarily a document that hopes to change the world for the better. It should be only secondarily a document that accurately reflects the knowledge, opinions and prejudices of its time."

Charles Van Doren, The American Behavioral Scientist, 6, No. 1, September 1962, pp 23-26


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