User:Salvador.Oropeza
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Greetings, I like to read articles from Wikipedia about almost any topic that comes into my mind, however there are some subjects on which I read more often (perhaps you might find some of them interesting as well):
People
- Victor Lustig - The man who sold the Eiffel Tower, twice!
- Cassie Chadwick - The woman that lead a bank to bankruptcy when she defaulted on loans obtained by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie.
Fictional Characters
- El Ángel de la Independenciain Mexico City.
- Icarus - Don't let arrogance get the best of you...
Philosophy
- What came first, the chicken or the egg? - Interesting alternatives for solving the age old puzzle.
- Nothing - is a little more complicated than you think.
- Solipsism - Is everything an Illusion?
Science
- What is NOT science - List of subjects that are sometimes presented as science, many times with an agenda for doing so.
- Theory - What IS science?
Space Exploration
- Colonization of Mars - How could we do it?
- Colonization of Venus - How about living in a city of clouds?
Physics
- Degenerate matter - Imagine fitting the entire mass of the solar system into a space the size of a pinhead.
- Twin paradox - What happens when you travel at the speed of light?
- Chaos Theory- Why can't we predict the future?
Math
- Graham's Number- How big can a number be? The answer is, numbers can be arbitrarily large. However, Graham's Number is orders of magnitude larger than the number of elemental particles in the visible universe.
Finance
- Ponzi Scheme - A very popular topic during these last turbulent years.