If you read this post or the one before it then you're probably pretty well acquainted with my lunacy. In any case, I have been keeping an eye out for pictures of balls in books. I have definitely noticed a higher than random probability of finding red stars on balls. So maybe there really is a strong prototype for balls with stars. That could definitely explain the particular event that I wrote about.
That's really the interesting thing about it though. It's hard to prove that this is the explanation. I know there has been much ink spilled on both sides of issues like this (luckily, no ink was shed in the writing of this blog). Many have said outright that research into topics like this is a waste of time. The thing I like about it though is the unresolved ambiguity. It leaves open the possibility for unknown phenomena. Is it all the usual science that we're comfor...
rtable with? Or is it something weird that's still unknown? Given that elephants probably communicate through their feet, I don't find it too hard to believe that humans, who are more subtle than elephants (apologies to Doug Adams), can communicate more than we thought with facial expressions or some other mechanism we haven't discovered yet.