Notes"You are never more alive, more awake, more conscious, than when in excruciating conflict with yourself. If self-awareness is the hallmark of humanity, then Sophieâs Choice may be its most mind-expanding exemplar."Unfurl
Notes"Now, more than ever, science and reason must prevail. The scale of the challenge is hard to overstate, but New Scientist is optimistic that we can succeed: our boundless doomsaying is more than matched by our boundless creativity and our ability to, eventually, do the right thing."Unfurl
Notes"The ingredients necessary are simple: string, acetone and a match. ... The clean break in the glass occurs when the exact ring of heated glass comes in contact with the cold water. Thermal shock slices the bottle in half."Unfurl
Notes"0. There are no paradoxes.1. Traveling into the future is easy.2. Traveling into the past is hard â but maybe not impossible.3. Traveling through time is like traveling through space.4. Things that travel together, age together.5. Black holes are not time machines.6. If something happened, it happened.7. There is no meta-time.8. You canât travel back to before the time machine was built.9. Unless you go to a parallel universe.10. And even then, your old universe is still there."Unfurl
Notes"In one video, I heard her say âContrary to scientific belief, autism is not genetic and I truly believe it is a genetic vulnerability.â You know why science never says it âtruly believesâ anything? Because itâs fucking science. Which isnât to say that science is infallible, just that I respect that science wonât say that a vaccine is good for you because it âbelievesâ in it."FeedUnfurl
Notes"Research at the Monell Chemical Senses Center finds that women have keener senses of smell than do men, and that men's body odors are harder to cover up than are women's. Christie Nicholson reports"FeedUnfurl
Notes"It's not often that Britain can claim a win in the space race. But these teddy bears drifting nearly 20 miles above Earth have become the first soft toys to take part in extra-vehicular activity (to use correct NASA jargon) at such an altitude."FeedUnfurl
Notes"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just "people of faith" but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity."Unfurl
Notes"Scientists currently rely on computer simulations to smash biological units, but simulations can only do so much, and without the visceral enjoyment of seeing two squirrels collide at thousands of miles an hour."Unfurl
Notes"A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution. ... Rejecting claims of religious discrimination and stifling of free expression, U.S. District Judge James Otero of Los Angeles said UC's review committees cited legitimate reasons for rejecting the texts - not because they contained religious viewpoints, but because they omitted important topics in science and history and failed to teach critical thinking."Unfurl
Notes"You might say that scientists - at least some scientists - are those folk who are in principle capable of enjoying life in the real universe."Unfurl
Notes"Kathleen Benison, a geologist at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, led a team that studied the sediments formed by acidic and very salty lakes in modern day Western Australia, and those deposited around 250 million years ago in North Dakota."Unfurl
Notes"Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner thatâs precise, predictive and reliable â a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empoweriUnfurl
Notes"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) changeUnfurl
Notes"The point is this: there has never -- never ever ever -- been a single thing that has been taken out of the science basket and put back in the god basket. Not one. Ever."Unfurl
Notes"A team from the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters is at the Hanford nuclear reservation this week to get to the bottom of the nuclear survival myth."Unfurl
Notes"At a time when science permeates debates on everything from global warming to stem cell research, he said, people's inability to understand basic scientific concepts undermines their ability to take part in the democratic process."Unfurl
Notes"The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory, owned and operated by the University of California. It is situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, USA."Unfurl
Notes"The Tree of Life design celebrates the theory of evolution and was created to give a voice to those who favor traditional biology and oppose the growing American support of various forms of creationism."Unfurl
Notes"President Bush met with members of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory research team Monday to discuss a mathematical error he recently discovered in the famed laboratory's "Improved Determination Of Tau Lepton Paths From Inclusive Semileptonic B-MUnfurl
Notes"You all just started calmly talking. And talking. And talking. We got more responses to this article than to any piece in memory. Brimstone quotient: low."Unfurl
Notes"Though an unprotected human would not long survive in the clutches of outer space, it is remarkable that survival times can be measured in minutes rather than seconds, and that one could endure such an inhospitable environment for almost two minutes withUnfurl
Notes"When we get behind the wheel of a car, we may think we gain a bird's power of flight, but actually we are poor, pathetic imitators of birds."Unfurl
Notes"British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant."Unfurl
NotesThe conceit, originating on LJ, that Spirit is a disgruntled goth, while Opportunity is an what we'd call in High School days - a "social" has gone mainstream.Unfurl
Notes"We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very very improbable."Unfurl
Notes"One interesting property of the Gravity Express is that its transit time would always be very, very close to forty-two minutes regardless of the distance travelled."Unfurl
Notes"The Lancet isn't just any medical journal ... It is not noted for publishing random speculation, agitprop, and crank letters â it's the top journal of record in its field."FeedUnfurl
Notes"A Republican state lawmaker is criticizing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for comments he made to a newspaper here about the lawmakerâs belief that the planet is not millions of years old."Unfurl
Notes"This is the real lesson of the move to electronic formats and distribution: not that everything should somehow be free, but that with many of the production tasks automatable or off-loadable to the authors, the editorial costs will then dominate the costUnfurl
Notes"So thanks Dr. Science, for driving a nice little wedge between these people and their nasty little judgemental causes and ripping away their thinly-veiled morality facade (oops, did I say veiled?) I don't like abortions either. Nobody does. I wish they cUnfurl
Notes"It's always such an honor to be hated by people who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old, was conjured into existence in six days, and that not believing their god appeared on Earth, like Zeus before Leda, means your non-existent soul will burUnfurl
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