One for the eternal questions raised by travelling by car in Jakarta is whether to take the toll roads or not. Theoretically they should make the journey quicker, but practically they are sometimes so jammed with traffic it would have been quicker to remain on the smaller, shittier and still traffic clogged roads that weave around them. Apologies to any physicists reading, for what is doubtless a very poor analogy, but Jakarta’s toll roads are like Schrodinger’s cat: you can’t tell if they’re busy until you’re on them, and by that time it’s too late. For those interested, the Wikipedia article on Schrodinger’s cat can be found here.
Other pseudo-intellectual news: I recently made my higher level students research the philosophy of ethics including utilitarianism, deontology and such luminaries as Kant, Plato and Derrida. They didn’t get it.
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