So there’s this post over at Cognitive Daily, a post which i would have titled something more like how i titled this post. But that’s OK, they’re cognitive psychologists not marketers. God knows we need more people like them. I’m going to give a brief summary of what they’re reporting on before i get to [...]
Tagged moralityThat and other wonderful quotes, along with some terrifically terrifying ideas, available here at a list of some 20 of the most bizarre scientific experiments of the last several hundred years.
It includes not only the classics (stanley milgram and stanford prison) but also some things that are truly bizarre. Go, read it, if not for [...]
If you’re wondering about this whole “end of history,” or so called “technological singularity” that some believe is probable within this century, you would do well to read this post about the quickening (it’s right underneath some weird comic) that doctor klomp hypothesized approximately 300,000 years ago. It bears remarkable resemblance to what is going [...]
First, new scientist reported on an experiment that really very strongly suggests that in some cases it is possible for photons to travel faster than the speed of light. Completely aside from the apparent oxymoron of saying that light traveled faster than itself, (being as “photon” is a word that means “unit of light”) this [...]
So, as previously mentioned, i have long wondered if anybody doesn’t believe that the earth orbits the sun–let alone the 20% or so that i’ve heard rumors of–and i decided to do something about it.
So now the results are in. Take a moment, think about it. What do you think the percentages are? I mean, [...]
I’ve heard multiple times (from reputable and semi-reputable sources such as blogs and newspapers, respectively) that up to 20% of various populations (most commonly french or american) believe that the sun orbits the earth.
I’ve never really believed it, so i created a facebook poll for 200 people who listed “the bible” in their favorite books [...]
this might be kind of rambly, on account of the vicodin i took 6(?) hours ago. Freakin’ disease. But i’ll try and keep it concise and reasonably lucid. If it’s not, and you find it interesting, you should let me know and i’ll re-write it with actual structure and a clear point. Also I [...]
I was going to write a nice long and angry jeremiad about Unintelligent Design (so called in this instance because I, for one, am sick and tired of being pissed at an unnamed designer for not giving me x-ray eyes) but i could not seem to avoid mini-polemics like that one. So here’s a really, [...]
This article is out of date, there are now over 600 scientists named steve who support evolution. “Creation Scientists” and Intelligent Design advocates are fond of creating lists of scientists who dissent from evolution, as though scientific theories are decided by majority vote. The largest one that I have heard of is misleading to the [...]
