Category: Science
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Words of the Day 16 December 2013 – Einstein
“Professor: “You are a Christian aren’t you son?” Einstein: (as a student) “Yes sir.” “So you believe in God?” “Absolutely sir.” “Is God good”? “Sure.” “Is God all powerful?” “Yes.” “My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to heal others who are ill.…
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Science Quote of the Day 15 Dec 2013 – Religions
“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How many scholars have simply assumed that males have always played the dominant role in leadership and creative invention and projected this assumption into their analysis of ancient cultures? Why do so many people…
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Triple Quote Saturday – 14 December 2013- Imagine
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and…
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Tech Piece of the Day 12 December 2013 – Data Transport Protocols
If we still have some vestige of the digital technological revolution of the last century, it is certainly the data transport mechanisms in use throughout the internet. Although maybe we should talk in plural because they are precisely two mechanisms we have inherited from our digital prehistory. These are TCP and UDP. Both data transport mechanisms have…
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Quote of the Day 8 December 2013 – Change
“In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change…
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Quote of the Day 5 December 2013 – Flower
“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this…
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Quote of the Day 7 November 2013 – That’s Us
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and…
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Living in the nuclear wasteland of Las Vegas, you get used to having to find clean water. While the local water authority tells us how safe our water is, the fact remains the particulates far exceed federal standards… and thus if you fill a glass of water and let it evaporate you will be surprised…
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Why We Lie – WSJ.com
We like to believe that a few bad apples spoil the virtuous bunch. But research shows that everyone cheats a little—right up to the point where they lose their sense of integrity. The results of these experiments should leave you wondering about the ways that we currently try to keep people honest. Does the…