Posts Tagged ‘ science ’
Or: Homeopathy is famous because it doesn’t work. The article is interesting, and the gist of it is: people do things they see other people doing people spend more time on medicines that don’t work than medicines that do medicines that don’t work have more time to convince people to try them Now, completely aside from how horribly [ READ MORE ]
Since there has been a lot of work being done over the last few years on quantum computation there have been a lot of articles published along the lines of “Quantum Teleportation is here, but it’s no Star Trek.” To which I say: Pshah! Emphatically pshah sirs! Quantum teleportation only bares the slightest resemblance to what we [ READ MORE ]
That 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 [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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, [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
Because a “news source” has recently brought to my attention the fact that the more fundamentalist christians are, the more they are against any form of contraception, and the more children they have. Whereas we, intelligent that we are, realize the horrible problems that are caused by having too many children (both on a personal [ READ MORE ]
This article is out of date, there are now over 600 scientists named steve who support evolution.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 [ READ MORE ]