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The Last Psychiatrist -- The Decline Effect Is Stupid

'The true explanation for the Decline Effect is one no one cites because the place you would cite it is the cause itself. I am not exaggerating when I say that the cause of the Decline Effect is The New Yorker. A wide range of fields from the almost entirely made-up to the slightly less made-up are losing their "truth?" Jonah Lehrer is the Decline Effect. ...he ultimately grades science the science he's not knowledgeable about based on value judgments. Which is fine, it's his life, though I wonder: if he goes psychotic, will he actually want me to give him Haldol over Abilify? The trouble for the Earth is... he writes for The New Yorker. And Wired. Which means that his value judgments carry more weight than the science itself. If they didn't, I, and those who are real scientists, wouldn't have to explain why the Decline Effect doesn't exist, I wouldn't have to waste time rebutting his article. But I do. That's the problem.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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The New Yorker -- The Decline Effect and the Scientific Method

You're trying to use the scientific method to invalidate the scientific method?? -- 'If replication is what separates the rigor of science from the squishiness of pseudoscience, where do we put all these rigorously validated findings that can no longer be proved? Which results should we believe?' -- Only those verified by the scientific method. -- RELAVITISM: 'The decline effect is troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. [RHETORIC: Appeal to invented commonplace (pretend):] We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that’s often not the case. [Proven by... the application of scientific method?] -- [TRUTH STATEMENT:] Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true. [Including your 'idea', your truth statement?] When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe. [via Evidence? Scientific method?]' -- Summary: Empirical junk data exists

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Evolution of the Psyche and Society - The Emotional Life of Nations by Lloyd deMause

'...the new socializing psychoclass child-rearing, [caused] a greater increase in material prosperity in the past two centuries than in all the rest of human history. The reason for this astonishing progress is that science, technology and economic development depend more on investments in parenting than investments in equipment, since they crucially require an "exploring self" constructed from childhood. A few economists realize that the wealth of nations lies in the development of psyches more than in the investment of capital. ...those nations furthest behind today in economic development suffer from a severe underinvestment in families and children, not in capital equipment. The historical record is clear: early pioneers in science and technology first had to overcome their alter projections before they could discover how the world worked. Every invention had its origin in the evolution of the psyche; every exploration of nature was a dimension of the exploration of the self.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- CorbettReport: Richard Lindzen on the State of Climate Science

'Atmospheric physicist, MIT Professor of Meteorology and former IPCC lead author Richard S. Lindzen joins us to discuss the state of the climate change debate, the lack of evidence for catastrophic warming and what the science really tells us.' -- Do we live inside a climate computer model or do we live inside empirical objective reality?

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Big Science Promotion Grows Stranger

'Dominant Social Theme: Isn't it amazing how real-life imitates the movies? The strangeness of modern Big Science goes well beyond its funding stream. As those at CERN grow more desperate for results, the rhetoric surrounding the experiments grows more promotional. This is in fact how the power elites' dominant and sub-dominant social themes are produced. They begin with ideas in controlled scientific journals and then are rebroadcast through the controlled elite mainstream media and if possible, may be recycled once more on TV or in the movies. Finally, once public fervor has been aroused, the ideas are guided to the public trough for financing with taxpayer dollars. Is Big Science indeed merely a smokescreen for Big Military expenditures? Is the Hadron Collider actually being used for more specific and targeted war research? What exactly are they promoting? And why?'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: Piers Corbyn: 'Superfloods, hellish heat normal, sellout science is not'

'As Russia recovers from a record-breaking heatwave followed by fierce storms, RT talks to astrophysicist and solar weather forecaster Piers Corbyn to find out what it all means and if it has anything to do with global warming.' -- http://www.weatheraction.com

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Freedomain Radio: Ethics Reloaded! - Universally Preferable Behavior

"Reason = Virtue = Happiness" -- 'An animated introduction to Universally Preferable Behavior: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics, from Freedomain Radio.' -- The entire book is available for free at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/free#UPB

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- James Burke: Connections E05: "Wheel Of Fortune"

'The Wheel of Fortune traces astrological knowledge in ancient Greek manuscripts from Baghdad’s founder, Caliph Al-Mansur, via the Muslim monastery/medical school at Gundeshapur, to the medieval Church’s need for alarm clocks (the water horologium and the verge and foliot clock).'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- The Great Leap Forward. Professors et al realize they need to talk about evidence instead of insults

'I’m elated. Last night outside the Watts Up lecture at UWA here in Perth there were people handing out a so-called “Scientific Guide” to the Skeptics Handbook. Let’s put this in perspective, I wrote the Handbook two years ago, and it’s taken this long for those-who-want-to-scare-us to put together a specific printed response. I’m an unbacked, solo pro bono writer, and they needed no less than 5 professors, 2 associate professors, and 21 months, and THIS is the best they can do? -- ...the Scientific Guide makes a lot of whitewashy mistakes; still won’t show the graphs I show; confoundingly obscures the “fingerprint” that was presented by Santer and the CCSP, and makes baseless assertions, uses graphs with dodgy scales, assumes that positive feedback occurs and throws in a venetian blind strawman. Nonetheless, finally Professors are rising above Argument from authority and ad hominem attacks. The word “Denier” has disappeared.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- The Great Leap Forward. Professors et al realize they need to talk about evidence instead of insults

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Freedomain Radio -- #97 Concepts Part 3: The Effects (MP3)

Gisted -- Human beings have differences of opinion and so the question is, how do we resolve differences of opinion in ways that are objective and non-violent? Scientists resolve their disputes using the scientific method: objective verification, reproducibility, etc. In the free-market, we settle on the economic value of something by finding its price. In the business world, contracts are another way of objectively resolving disputes with appeal to empirical and verifiable external facts. The wonderful thing about facts is they eliminate conflict. And that's why it is so important to reason. But if you are a Platonist, you have this problem that 'the truth' is completely personal, it is completely non-objective, and it can be subject to no empirical tests or rational analysis. So how are you going to resolve disputes? Violence is the only methodology of resolving human disputes in the absence of objective and logical criteria of measuring who's right and who's wrong.

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Freedomain Radio -- #95 Concepts Part 1: Servant or Master? (MP3)

Gisted -- Aristotle versus Plato. In the Aristotelian view, concepts are imperfectly derived from the senses. Because concepts are derived from the senses, any concept which opposes the senses is by definition false. In the Platonic view, the concept is perfect and anything less is a falsehood. Now that we have the experience and the history of the scientific method, it seems that there would be no way to retain this strange Platonic belief without the corruption that's involved in the State funding and control of philosophy in "education" and through the State's control of the media and major think-tanks. In the scientific method, concepts are the slaves of reality. The root of the evils in the world – that have always plagued the world – is the idea that one's ideas are never subject to external verification. It is a horrible kind a bullying and so thwarts humanity's progress and so destroys man's capacity to reason and to interact – all the way down to attaining emotional intimacy.

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: CrossTalk on Climate: Global skepticism warms up?

"Measurement trumps model."

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- The truth shall make you free

How Government Corrupts Science: 'Gradually, over the next two generations, the private capital that had heretofore funded science, endowed scientific institutions and provided the intellectual freedom that is crucially important to successful scientific enquiry was seized through taxation and part of it was then passed to scientists in government “grants” and contracts. Grantsmanship gradually became the most important “scientific” skill... In short, the federal government has used some of the earnings of the American people that it demands in taxes to build a giant welfare program for Ph.D.s – now known as “big-time science.” As this welfare program has expanded, the conservative culture among American academic scientists has gradually been replaced by an ultraliberal, pro-big-government culture – in just the same way that large government welfare programs have induced this political change in many other national sectors.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- Lost Lightning: The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla

'At the end of the 19th century, a race was on to power the world. Fraught with shameless incidents of divisiveness and greed, some of our most respected historical figures sounded the battle cry, among them inventor Thomas Edison and the worldly entrepreneur, J.P. Morgan. Caught in the crossfire was arguably the greatest inventor of all time, the man responsible for harnessing Niagara Falls and the AC current that powers our homes. Nikola Tesla claimed he could provide everyone with free, unlimited energy. Could his claim have been true?' -- 'Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain’s alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system – the brain and the earth itself – work on the same frequencies.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- THUNDERBOLTS OF THE GODS

'The Thunderbolts Project offers remarkably simple explanations for 'black holes', 'dark matter', the electric sun, comets that are NOT made of ice, planetary scarring and many other 'mysterious' phenomena. It proposes that much of the currently observable phenomena of deep space can be intelligently explained by already known principles of electricity. High school students get it immediately. A doctorate in higher math is not required. This extraordinary new theory also redefines ancient history, linking rock art images carved in basalt 5,000 years ago with identical images found only in Hubble photographs of deep space or in photographs of recently declassified high-energy plasma discharge experiments generated in a billion dollar lab.' -- Spiritual = Electrical

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

'Dunbar found that most new scientific ideas emerged from lab meetings, those weekly sessions in which people publicly present their data. When Dunbar reviewed the transcripts of the meeting, he found that the intellectual mix generated a distinct type of interaction in which the scientists were forced to rely on metaphors and analogies to express themselves. These abstractions proved essential for problem-solving, as they encouraged the scientists to reconsider their assumptions. Having to explain the problem to someone else forced them to think, if only for a moment, like an intellectual on the margins, filled with self-skepticism. -- This is why other people are so helpful: They shock us out of our cognitive box. “I saw this happen all the time,” Dunbar says. “A scientist would be trying to describe their approach, and they’d be getting a little defensive, and then they’d get this quizzical look on their face. It was like they’d finally understood what was important.”'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Freeman Dyson: The Civil Heretic

'“They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.” -- Whatever else he is, Dyson is the good scientist; he asks the hard questions. He could also be a lonely prophet. Or, as he acknowledges, he could be dead wrong. -- “It’s always possible Hansen could turn out to be right,” he says of the climate scientist. “If what he says were obviously wrong, he wouldn’t have achieved what he has. But Hansen has turned his science into ideology. He’s a very persuasive fellow and has the air of knowing everything. He has all the credentials. I have none. I don’t have a Ph.D. He’s published hundreds of papers on climate. I haven’t. By the public standard he’s qualified to talk and I’m not. But I do because I think I’m right. I think I have a broad view of the subject, which Hansen does not. I think it’s true my career doesn’t depend on it, whereas his does. I never claim to be an expert on climate. I think it’s more a matter of judgement than knowledge.”'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row

'The U-turn by the university follows a week of controversy after the emergence of hundreds of leaked emails, "stolen" by hackers and published online, triggered claims that the academics had massaged statistics. In a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had negotiated its release from a range of non-publication agreements.' -- Including the "deleted" data too?

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- Climategate: what Gore’s useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn’t get about the ‘peer review’ process

'What the CRU’s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have corrupted the peer-review process. In true Gramscian style they marched on the institutions – capturing the magazines (Science, Scientific American, Nature, etc), the seats of learning (Climate Research Institute; Hadley Centre), the NGO’s (Greenpeace, WWF, etc), the political bases (especially the EU), the newspapers (pretty much the whole of the MSM I’m ashamed, as a print journalist, to say) – and made sure that the only point of view deemed academically and intellectually acceptable was their one. Neutral observers in this war sometimes ask how it can be that the vast majority of the world’s scientists seem to be in favour of AGW theory. “Peer-review” is why. Only a handful of scientists – 53 to be precise, not the much-touted 2,500 – were actually responsible for the doom-laden global-warming sections of the IPCC’s reports.' -- SCUM *spits*

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Watts Up With That? -- "The first rule of the Freedom of Information Act … nobody talks about the Freedom of Information Act."

'People seem to be missing the real issue in the CRU emails. Gavin over at realclimate keeps distracting people by saying the issue is the scientists being nasty to each other, and what Trenberth said, and the Nature “trick”, and the like. Those are side trails. To me, the main issue is the frontal attack on the heart of science, which is transparency. -- Science works by one person making a claim, and backing it up with the data and methods that they used to make the claim. Other scientists then attack the claim by (among other things) trying to replicate the first scientist’s work. If they can’t replicate it, it doesn’t stand. So blocking the FOIA allowed Phil Jones to claim that his temperature record (HadCRUT3) was valid science. -- This is not just trivial gamesmanship, this is central to the very idea of scientific inquiry. This is an attack on the heart of science, by keeping people who disagree with you from ever checking your work and seeing if your math is correct.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- BBC Daily Politics Show: Climate Debate

'Climate debate between Prof Fred Singer and Prof Bob Watson and the hacked emails from CRU.' -- Watson references 'surface temperature' data the raw version of which was DELETED. No evidence for CO2-driven climate change, says Singer. Increased CO2 doesn't cause a proportionate increase in warming. You could easily expect so (the theory is "plausible") but you'd need to test the 'greenhouse' hypothesis in the actual atmosphere with REAL empirical data, NOT computer models based only on a theory. The REAL (freely available, untampered, raw) satellite data shows there is no proportionate increase in temperature, there is no feedback effect. Other factors drive climate change (both heating and cooling). See Lindzen: http://www.globalwarming.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/lindzen-talk-pdf.pdf -- Prof Bob Watson is fitting his science to justify a forgone conclusion using weak rhetorical appeals to consensus, like: "is well understood, basically" to cover it up. Convince me with evidence.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- George Monbiot: Global warming rigged? Here's the email I'd need to see (Monbiot Apology)

Sabraguy: "But now I suggest you review your file of correspondence and articles, and figure out who you need to apologize to." -- Monbiot: "I apologise. I was too trusting of some of those who provided the evidence I championed. I would have been a better journalist if I had investigated their claims more closely." -- contrarian2: "But if the science is that "settled," why refuse to disclose the data? If global warming so obvious and incontrovertible, why be in such a panic about FOI, why talk openly about re-defining "peer review", why threaten to (or actually) delete data?" -- Monbiot: "I agree. It is exactly for those reasons that Phil Jones should resign. There's a word for his lack of openness and control of the data: unscientific."

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- Climategate: why it matters

'What seems to have lulled ... many ... clever people ... into their dangerous complacency is the belief that given the majority of world scientific opinion is backing AGW theory, it would be irresponsible for us non-scientists to disagree. What the Climategate scandal does is prove just how murky and unreliable this supposed scientific “consensus” really is. “Peer-reviewed”: it’s the magic phrase which – in their eyes – guarantees the reliability and credibility of their favoured scientists... -- Dr Tim Ball: "..he identified 42 people who were publishing together and also peer-reviewing each other’s literature."' -- 42. The answer to the universe and everything! I really wonder how people can have such disrespect for science. It is the ultimate philosophic 'crime against humanity'. No, never in my name. If science is a thought crime then I choose thoughtcrime!

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Market Ticker -- "Global Warming" SCAM - A Further Look

'... since we have emails now apparently documenting an attempt to "paper over" temperature decreases in recent years, and we also have claims of "lost" data, one wonders - was the data really lost, or was it intentionally deleted or withheld from other researchers who asked for it, as providing it would show that measurement uncertainties were not carried through computationally - and if they were, the claimed results in the so-called "peer reviewed" paper would be impossible to validate? Without hard proof of whatever answer is propounded to that question we as the people of this planet must insist on a full stop for all purported "climate amelioration" efforts, as there is every possibility that the entirety of this so-called science in fact proves exactly nothing ... Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and from the released set of data that proof is, quite simply, not present and accounted for.' -- Ruining the good name of science. Back to the dark ages we go.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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WorldNetDaily -- 31,000 scientists reject 'global warming' agenda

'More than 31,000 scientists across the U.S. – including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields such as atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties – have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate. "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate," the petition states. "Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."' -- 31,000. 300,000. 3 billion. Doesn't matter. Only the observed evidence matters—and there is no observed evidence for CO2-driven climate change. None.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- The rise of the Unskeptical Scientist

'Once upon a time, a scientist and a skeptic used to be one and the same thing. Actually, it still is. The motto of The Royal Society — the longest lived scientific association in the world, is Nullius in Verba — “On no one’s word” (take no one’s word for it). The Climate Industry marketing has tried to turn “skeptic” into a dirty word. So in perfect symmetry, if we are Skeptical Scientists, they are obviously: the Unskeptical Scientists (or “Unskeptics” for short). -- It’s time to reclaim the term skeptic. It is, after all, just what a scientist is. It’s time to rescue the brand of the word skeptic, and rebadge those who are not… skeptical.' -- OLDSPEAK THOUGHTCRIME. TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS LOGICCRIME. SCIENCE IS FAITH. THIS WARN YOU.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

"LET THESE BE GUIDESTONES TO AN AGE OF REASON. MAINTAIN HUMANITY UNDER 500,000,000 IN PERPETUAL BALANCE WITH NATURE. GUIDE REPRODUCTION WISELY—IMPROVING FITNESS AND DIVERSITY. (UNITE HUMANITY WITH A LIVING NEW LANGUAGE [Science]). RULE PASSION—FAITH—TRADITION—AND ALL THINGS WITH TEMPERED REASON. PROTECT PEOPLE AND NATIONS WITH FAIR LAWS AND JUST COURTS. LET ALL NATIONS RULE INTERNALLY RESOLVING EXTERNAL DISPUTES IN A WORLD COURT. AVOID PETTY LAWS AND USELESS OFFICIALS. BALANCE PERSONAL RIGHTS WITH SOCIAL DUTIES. PRIZE TRUTH—BEAUTY—LOVE—SEEKING HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE. BE NOT A CANCER ON THE EARTH—LEAVE ROOM FOR NATURE." -- Still doesn't solve the problem of the psychopaths.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- 1/6 BELL TOLLING for the Swine Flu (Subtitled)

(Just giving this another BUMP) -- 'TERESA FORCADES, doctor in Public Health, reflects on the history, and gives scientific data, of A type flu and lists all the irregularities related to this subject.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Spiked -- Putting a forcefield around green ideas

'By first demanding that green views be put on a par with religion in the eyes of the law and by then suggesting that green views should be elevated above religion because they are ‘underpinned by science’, Nicholson not only debased religious belief but also expressed an ignorant attitude towards the scientific process. As Frank Furedi has pointed out on spiked: ‘Science emerged through an intellectual struggle to free humanity from the tyranny of sacred dogma… science depends on an open-minded and open-ended attitude towards experimentation and the testing out of ideas.’ Nicholson’s efforts to stamp out opposition to those who ‘believe in anthropogenic climate change’ is an expression of dogmatic thinking if ever there was one.' -- Back to the dark ages. It's quite shocking how far the neo-feudalism meme has spread. You'd think people would be weary of being manipulated as a useful idiot, but somehow an inflated sense of self importance takes its grip...

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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blip.tv -- Cooler Heads Event with Dr. Richard Lindzen on Cap and Trade

'Dr. Lindzen disputes some of the claims made by global warming alarmists, presents real climate facts, and questions the purpose of the bill.' -- Quoting Mike Hume: "The idea of climate change should be seen as an intellectual resource around which our collective and personal identities and projects can form and take shape. We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us. Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs. We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilize them in support of our projects. These myths transcend the scientific categories of ‘true' and ‘false'"

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Watts Up With That? -- NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page

Down the memory hole. What kids can't know: '"It has been thought that an increase in carbon dioxide will lead to global warming. While carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing over the past 100 years, there is no evidence that it is causing an increase in global temperatures." -- "The behavior of the atmosphere is extremely complex. Therefore, discovering the validity of global warming is complex as well. How much effect will the increase in carbon dioxide will have is unclear or even if we recognize the effects of any increase." -- The Wayback machine has the missing web page for posterity: http://web.archive.org/web/20060129154229/http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/atmos/ll_gas.htm'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Examiner.com -- Carbon Dioxide irrelevant in climate debate says MIT Scientist

'In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance of CO2 in Earth’s Atmosphere. Dr. Lindzen has found that heat is radiated out in to space at a far higher rate than any modeling system to date can account for. -- What this data does tell us is if CO2 concentration should double, global temperatures will not rise by the devastating 6 degrees F the UN predicts, but by a completely harmless 1 degree F. The ERBE data shows an Earth system that is radiating more heat into space as sea surfaces warm, in other words a system at equilibrium, and is clearly demonstrated by observed data. The UN theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming is dead wrong.'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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MasterResource -- Climate Sensitivity Estimates: Heading Down, Way Down? (Richard Lindzen's New Paper)

'MIT climate scientists Richard Lindzen and collaborator Yong-Sang Choi soon-to-be published paper pegs the earth’s “climate sensitivity”—the degree the earth’s temperature responds to various forces of change—at a value that is about six times less than the “best estimate” put forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The smaller the climate sensitivity, the less the impact that rising carbon dioxide levels will have on the earth’s climate. The less the impact that CO2 emissions will have on the earth’s climate, the less the “problem” and ability to reverse the “problem.” -- Lindzen and Choi findings could fundamentally shift the climate debate... These results should factor prominently in any discussions aimed at trying to limit projected future warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions as they make a strong case that such actions would be a waste of time and effort.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Deconstructing Global Warming by Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PDF)

'It is generally agreed that doubling CO2 alone will cause about 1C warming due to the fact that it acts as a ‘blanket.’ Model projections of greater warming absolutely depend on positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds that will add to the ‘blanket’ – reducing the net cooling of the climate system. The fact that all models show a negative slope corresponding to a positive feedback, has led virtually all scientific bodies including the IPCC to declare this property to be ‘robust.’ But, what does the data show? We see that for models, the uncertainty in radiative fluxes makes it impossible to pin down the precise sensitivity because they are so close to unstable ‘regeneration.’ This, however, is not the case for the actual climate system where the sensitivity is about 0.5C for a doubling of CO2. From the brief SST record, we see that fluctuations of that magnitude occur all the time. ### What we see is that the very foundation of the issue of global warming is wrong.' ###

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- The Great Global Warming Swindle

75mins Channel 4 documentary on the cult of environmentalism and the politically-motivated supression of scientific method/skepticism. Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- The ["Man-Made Global Warming"] Skeptics Handbook

'Rise above the mud-slinging in the Global Warming debate. Here are the strategies and tools you need to cut through the red-herrings and avoid the traps. -- #Believers are becoming skeptics: These notable people all felt global warming should be taken seriously until new evidence changed their minds. -- Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, says “I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden notes, “Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly [from promoting warming fears], without having their professional careers ruined.”'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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TierneyLab Blog -- Researcher Condemns Conformity Among His Peers

'There’s a powerful human urge to belong inside the group, to think like the majority, to lick the boss’s shoes, and to win the group’s approval by trashing dissenters. The strength of this urge to conform can silence even those who have good reason to think the majority is wrong. You’re an expert because all your peers recognize you as such. But if you start to get too far out of line with what your peers believe, they will look at you askance and start to withdraw the informal title of “expert” they have implicitly bestowed on you. Then you’ll bear the less comfortable label of “maverick,” which is only a few stops short of “scapegoat” or “pariah.”'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Archdruid Report -- A Struggle of Paradigms

"[Thomas Kuhn, in his famous book 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'] argued that different paradigms are not attempts to answer the same questions, differing in their level of accuracy, but attempts to answer entirely different questions – or, to put it another way, they are models that highlight different features of a complex reality, and cannot be reduced to one another. -- The industrial paradigm can only interpret running out of one resource as a call to begin exploiting some even richer one. If there is no richer one, and even the poorer ones are rapidly being depleted as well, what then? From within the industrial paradigm, that question cannot even be formulated; the assumption that there is always some new and better resource to be had is hardwired into the ways of thinking that the industrial paradigm makes inevitable. Thus a change of paradigms is necessary."

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The Archdruid Report -- Toward Ecosophy

"... the cultures best suited to the deindustrial age will have to embrace an attitude toward nature differing sharply from scientism: an attitude that starts from humility rather than hubris... Ecosophy isn’t a science, any more than scientism is, nor is it a religion – though ecological religion is likely to be significant in the deindustrial age, whether it borrows existing religious forms or evolves new ones of its own. Rather, ecosophy is a worldview and value system that gives meaning to ecology and ecotechnics, and makes sense of human life not in terms of some imagined conquest of nature, but of our species’ dependence and participation in the wider circle of the biosphere."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Google Tech Talks: The Next Fifty Years of Science by Kevin Kelly

Deep Science: Simulation : Measurement : Hypothesis

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Questions, Not Answers, Make Science the Ultimate Adventure by Brian Greene

'... science is the journey. Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. It is the ultimate adventure. Against staggering odds, a species that has walked upright for only a few million years is trying to unravel puzzles that are billions of years in the making. How did the universe begin? How was life initiated? How did consciousness emerge? To be a scientist is to commit to a life of confusion punctuated by rare moments of clarity. Ruminating over these equations, seeking patterns, looking for hidden relationships, trying to make contact with measured data—it's all uncertainty and possibility engaged in an endless chaotic dance. Every so often the blur resolves, but the respite is short-lived; the next puzzle demands focus. This, really, is the joy of being a scientist. Established truths are comforting, but it is the mysteries that make the soul ache and render a life of exploration worth living.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sherry Turkle -- The Immeasurables (PDF)

"Young scientists are encouraged by a personal experience with an object they an understand and with which they can tinker. Playing with objects inn their own way leads children to build a personal scientific style. There has been no simple migration to a new digital world. Children grow up in many worlds–they are seduced by the virtual but always brought back to the physical, to the analog, and, of course, to nature. ...from the periodic table of the elements (because it offers an image of perfect and reassuring organization) to LEGO blocks (because they offer a way to create perfect and reassuring symmetries) can become points of entry to larger transformative experiences of understanding and confidence very often at the point they are shared."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sherry Turkle -- The Objects of Our Lives (PDF)

"to solve her mysteries, Nancy Drew was called upon to decode an object. Nancy's deft intellect would unravel [metaphorical secrets] after days of turning the object over and over in her mind. I searched my neighborhood for mysterious objects to decode. My grandmother, grandfather, and aunt would sometimes come into the kitchen to watch me at my investigations. At the time I didn't know what I was looking for. I think they did. I'm looking, without awareness, for the one who is missing. I'm looking for a trace of my father. If there is a sense of vocation to become attentive to the detail of other people's narratives, mine was born in the smell and feel of the memory closet. That is where I determined that I would solve mysteries, that I would use objects as my clues to the heart of the matter. That is where I decided that when objects could not tell a full story, I would find a person willing to talk to me before a voice was silenced before someone was forever cut out of the picture.'

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Reflexivity (social theory)

William Thomas, Thomas theorem: "the situations that men define as true, become true for them."

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Games Without Frontiers -- How Videogames Blind Us With Science

"The (mostly) young people engaging in these sciencelike conversations are precisely the same ones who are, more and more, tuning out of science in the classroom. Steinkuehler thinks videogames are the way to reverse this sorry trend. She argues that schools ought to be embracing games as places to show kids the value of scientific scrutiny -- the way it helps us make sense of the world. Science isn't about facts. It's about the quest for facts -- the scientific method, the process by which we hash through confusing thickets of ignorance. It's dynamic, argumentative, collaborative, competitive, filled with flashes of crazy excitement and hours of drudgework, and driven by ego: Our desire to be the one who figures it out, at least for now. It's dramatic and nutty and fun. And it's pretty much how kids already approach the games they love."

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions

"The acceptance of a paradigm frees the community from the need to constantly re-examine its first principles and foundational assumptions. Members of the community can concentrate on the subtlest and most esoteric of the phenomena that concern it. Because scientists work only for an audience of colleagues, an audience that shares values and beliefs, a single set of standards can be taken for granted. Unlike in other disciplines, the scientist need not select problems because they urgently need solution and without regard for the tools available to solve them. The social scientists tend to defend their choice of a research problem chiefly in terms of the social importance of achieving a solution. Which group would one then expect to solve problems at a more rapid rate?"

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Spore -- Videos

Watch the 'Science' one. A-mazing.

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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GetEXPELLED.com

*sigh*

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Yet Another Transhumanist Blog -- "Ideas" don't solve all problems.

"... ideas don't have "power" in their own right, but only in certain historical contexts, and sometimes not at all."

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june 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Teen Decomposes Plastic Bag in Three Months

"... this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that's needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?

"Biopiracy is what watchdog groups and government officials call the plundering of biological organisms for profit. Over the past decade, developing nations have increasingly protested such incursions into their sovereignty." -- Use it or lose it.

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Biology Futures

"Art to digitized information science to engineering problem." -- "Combinational era focuses on empiricism and simulation." -- "Synthetically developed energy solutions could have a substantial impact on natural resource demand."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - Channel 4 gets ready to educate

Crazy fun stuff at Channel 4: "We have a huge romp of a alternate-reality treasure hunt in development, with a central theme of genomics, cartography, patent busting and DNA experimentation."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Mssv - Can the Science Museum be up-to-date?

"museums can produce experiences" - Great suggestions.

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC Horizon - The Six Billion Dollar Experiment

"In the coming months the most complex scientific instrument ever built will be switched on. The Large Hadron Collider promises to recreate ... all » the conditions right after the Big Bang."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC Four - Visions Of The Future (3 of 3) The Quantum Revolution

"In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond." (Type 0 Civilisation.)

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC Four - Visions Of The Future (2 of 3) The Biotech Revolution

"In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC Four - Visions Of The Future (1 of 3) The Intelligence Revolution

"In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia - Isaac Newton's occult studies

"The English Crown, also fearing the potential devaluation of gold, should The Philosopher's Stone actually be discovered, made penalties for alchemy very severe." Bloody Bankers - again!

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC - Isaac Newton: The Dark Heretic
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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC Horizon - Total Isolation

Study on sensory deprevation

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Wikipedia - Negentropy

"... a living system exports entropy in order to maintain its own entropy at a low level... a living system imports negentropy and stores it."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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deCODEme

"deCODEme gives you the confidence of getting to know your genome guided by a world leader in human genetics."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Navigenics

"At Navigenics, we use the latest genetic science to illuminate the future of your health and arm you with the knowledge to change it for the better."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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23andMe - Genetics Just Got Personal.

"After providing a saliva sample using an at-home kit, you can use our interactive tools to shed new light on your distant ancestors, your close family and most of all, yourself."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Google - Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

"The storage would fill a major need for scientists who want to openly share their data, and would allow citizen scientists access to an unprecedented amount of data to explore." Best keep a local backup copy.

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC - Horizon - The Dark Secret of Hendrik Schön (2004)

"Schön's great breakthrough was to make a computer transistor out of a single organic molecule. It was an achievement of almost incalculable brilliance."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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BBC - Horizon - Parallel Universes (2001)

"Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bert Hubert - DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

"... there are pieces of genome that can be read from multiple starting points, and produce useful (but different) results either way. That is what I call a cool hack!" !!! -- God is an über l33t haxX0r! Amazing!

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Google Video - 2057 - The City

Science docu-drama

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Google Video - 2057: The Body

Science docu-drama

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Google Video - 2057: The World

Science docu-drama

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Guardian -- Moments from astrophysics that should be videogames, part one (of a potentially irregular series)

"Imagine controlling a rogue galaxy as it tumbles through space, taking out planets with a ray of particles travelling at the speed of light... how often do you get to control a galaxy - let alone a death star galaxy?" Cool idea.

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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TIME - Top 10 Scientific Discoveries: #9. The World's Oldest Animal

"... researchers from Bangor University in Wales stumbled on what is believed to be the world's oldest living animal: a 405 year-old clam. Or it was living, until researchers had to kill it to determine the clam's age by studying rings on its shell." >:-(

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Humans Evolving More Rapidly Than Ever, Say Scientists

"Driving the changes are environmental fluctuations and population growth. As the number of people swells, so do the number of mutations generated by random chance.-- The study's ultimate message: Whatever changes are happening, they're happening faster."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Economist.com - The race is not always to the richest

"And across the world, the less students know about science, the more optimistic they are about the chances of solving the planet's environmental problems." Why is this?

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Former Evangelical Minister Has a New Message: Jesus Hearts Darwin

"Evolution is real and science points to the existence of God." You know that spark that set off the Big Bang and all that stuff? Well, that's God, that is. Yeah, I know! Amazing, huh? Like, totally blows my mind, maan! So cool. God. Bang! High-five, dude

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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HearthSong - Moon In My Room

"Just like the real moon, this lunar light turns on and off as darkness comes and goes. Unlike the real moon, it will cycle through its 12 phases any time you click the remote control, or set it to cycle automatically."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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University of Sussex - The Centre for Research in Cognitive Science

"COGS fosters interaction and collaboration among all those working in Cognitive Science at Sussex, including researchers and students in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience and Philosophy."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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