Can you tell a MIDI, i.e. music scores played by a computer, from a performance of world-renowned virtuosi?

Take this quiz to find out:

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/midi_or_virtuosi.html

Some of you probably know that apart from conventional (i.e. military) wars, there also exist Science Wars, fought in an Epistemological Battlefield.

During one of such wars the New York University Physicist Alan Sokal downed the Social Text journal by publishing a research paper in it and subsequently claiming that the paper was a parody. This avenue of approach assured him a perfect position to launch a frontal attack on the whole discipline of Social Studies. He joined forces with Belgian Physicist Jean Bricmont and together they wrote the book Fashionable Nonsense, which, according to The Guardian, have shown that “modern French Philosophy is a load of old tosh”.

Little Sokal & Bricmont new, that the philosophical views, expressed by them in Fashionable Nonsense, were identical to those of Lenin.

Epistemological Gulag

Can you distinguish machine-translated German text from William Faulkner's prose?

Take this quiz to find out:

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/sounds_like_faulkner.html

This may be more difficult to do than you think.

Can you distinguish true art from fake art?

Take this quiz to find out:

http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~simkin/true_art_or_fake_art.html

You will see a dozen of images.
Some of them are True Masterpieces of Abstract Art, created by Immortal Artists. They carry Profound Meanings, which are, however, beyond the apprehensions of the vulgar. The rest were produced by the author of the quiz using common software (like Microsoft Word). They mean nothing.
You are asked to decide on each of the images. Afterwards the quiz is graded automatically.