Prime Successors: A Conjecture on the Computational Irreducibility of Primes Conceptual note proposing the Lauritzen Conjecture on prime successor irreducibility.

Atoms and Souls: The Prehistoric Origins of Science and Religion

Tommy Turtle at the Rabbit School

Plato's Atlantis Allegory: The Sundaland Hypothesis

Upgrading Our Knowledge Infrastructure (KI) for Economic Growth View on Medium.com Download PDF

Buckyballs Triangulated

How to envision carbon 60.

"The famous triangle paper."

Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry.

Spacehenge

Building a modern-day Stonehenge. Experience the Earth as an organic spaceship. Correctly re-orient yourself in the Earth-Sun system.

"Sounds interesting and lots of fun."

Dr. Louis Friedman, Co-Founder, The Planetary Society.

My Inexpensive Ergonomic Workstation

My "Alien Abduction" View on Medium.com Download PDF

Einstein's God View on Medium.com

Affective Directional Arc View on Medium.com

Advice to a Tiger Mom View on Medium.com

The Social Applications of Highly Composite NumbersThere is another class of numbers as important to society as prime numbers.

"Interesting"

Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Godel, Escher, Bach.

"Damn interesting...You have a most agile and... versatile mind".

Michael Shermer, author, "Why People Believe Weird Things."

"I read your article with high interest... eminently publishable".

Martin Gardner, author and former mathematics editor of Scientific American magazine.

"I enjoyed reading it and begin to wonder about its applications ..."

James Lovelock, scientist and author, formulator of Gaia Theory.

Confessions of a Straight "A" Student View on Medium.com Download PDF

Nature's Numbers

What is the next step in the evolution of numbers?

      III > 3 > ?

"Interesting paper ..."

Arthur L. Loeb, Harvard University, School of Visual and Environmental Studies

Geodesic Dome Education

"Thanks for the look at your article. A fine piece ..."

Martin Gardner, author.

SIngularity Clarity: The Hype and the Hope

Natural selection may be the fundamental principle in our universe.

Should English be Fixed?

English language reform past and present.

The Math Debate

Should math teaching be experiential and hands-on or the traditional "drill and kill"?

Easy Math Word List: Part I

A revolutionary new way to teach mathematics using simplified nomenclature.
Based on 15 years of experience and field research in mathematics education.

Easy Math Word List: Part II Easy Math Word List: Part III Easy Math Word List: Part IV Easy Math Word List

"I love your [math] word list".

Elizabeth Loftus, PhD, Psychology, U C Irvine.

How to be an Effective Teacher

Computer Usability (UX) 1998 Article

Web Site Useability Checklist

Web Site User Survey

The Axioms of Design

Newspaper Articles Authored by BILL LAURITZEN

Closest-Packing of Spheres

This packing applies to geometry, art, science, mathematics, design, packing, economics, space, and architecture.

The Sunset Delusion

If you see the sun move, if you see it rise or set or even travel across the sky, you are seeing something that is not possible. Hence my diagnosis of delusion.

Feeling the Round Earth

Is it possible to experience the roundness of Earth without going into orbit?

Useable Knowledge

What is knowledge? What is science? A simple model that shows that even babies do science.

Steven Hawking

My experience at a Stephen Hawking lecture.

Skeptic-Fanatic Scale

Are you a skeptic or a fanatic or do you lie somewhere in between?

Psychology Slang

Can we make psychological nomenclature more user-centered?

Field Study of Education 1997

The Errors of Educators 1997

The Raising Literacy Series 1997: