That was my biggest disappointment with Google+. They had a golden opportunity to integrate social networking, chat, and email, and all they did was throw up a knockoff of Facebook. I have gmail up nearly constantly, not so much with Facebook
You know... Calling someone "deniers" is quite simply not science at all- it's just another form of religion when you start down that path.
No, I think it has its place. Look at the Holocaust. What would you call the people who claimed it never happened (or that the death toll was only in the thousands), in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
It has to do with the approach to the debate One of the most common approaches is link bombing. Basically whenever someone posts a story about AGW on an online forum, they throw out a bunch of links to contrary to opinions, even if they has very little to do with the particular aspect of AGW they are talking about
I think there is a distinction between "healthy skepticism" and "denialism"
Motorcycles are simply not practical for most folks. You have to brave the elements, at most you have a one passenger capacity, and you can't haul much. And they just much more dangerous than cars. Everyone I know that owns a motorcycle also owns a car.
A great explanation, which made sense. But now I just have more questions. Like, "I will put a ball in one of these boxes, but I will not tell you which one I put it in. Now from your perspective, Neither the statement 'this box has the ball in it' nor 'this box does not have the ball in it' is true. You have no way of selecting which box I put the ball in." How is this any different?
What I am saying is, I don't see how there is any 'entanglement' there. It's just either in one diamond or the other. It's only our perception that doesn't know which one it is in.
Understanding wave-particle duality and the nature of light is critical to understanding modern physics. The easiest way I know of explaining this is through double-slit experiment.
With the double-slit experiment, you pass light between two slits that are space closely together (on the order of the wavelength of light). If you then place a screen some distance away from the slits, you will observe an interference pattern. Thomas Young used this experiment in the early 1800s and it appeared to settle the issue of nature of light (namely, that it travelled as a wave) in the physics community.
Then in 1905, Einstein wrote a paper which deduced that the photoelectric effect could only be explained using a particle model for light (This is what he won the Noble prize for, not for relativity...).
The problem is that something can't be a wave and particle. Waves can interfere and pass through each other, but particles cannot (they collide). So, which is light? Since the time of Newton, it was suspected to be a wave, due to interference. Young's double slit experiment was especially convincing.
The modern answer is "It depends, depending on how the experiment is performed." If you repeat Young's interference experiment, but place a detector at each slit, you will not get an inteference pattern, you will get two sharp peaks on the screen centered around each slit. This is what you would expect from a particle model of light (the photon must pass through one slit or the other, it cannot pass through both). Even if you do the experiment so slowly, and only allow single photon at a time to pass through the slit, you will still get an inteference pattern.
In brief, what happens is when you make an observation, the wave function of the particle is said to "collapse" onto one state or the other. But, when we aren't observing, the particle exists in a superposition of all possible states.
With all the inflation created by the Fed to feed the ever hungry Treasury, why bother with the IRS? Here is a cost cutting for you: abolish the IRS and just keep counterfeiting. There is no difference. IRS is just a token dep't, existing for the sake of existing, today, that government only collects a small part of its expenses in taxes and borrows and prints the rest.
In FY 2010, the U.S. collected $2.1 trillion in taxes, and borrowed $1.3 trillion, I would hardly consider ~2/3 to be a small part.
What makes this news troubling is that the researcher succeeded in being published in Science which was supposed to have a rigorous and effective peer-review process.
Peer review can't detect faked data, only bogus methodology.
Science is absolutely not a competition. Was Argentina harmed because the US went to the moon? Was Russia harmed when penicillin was discovered? No, not at all. China's increased scientific research is a benefit to all of us.
Was Europe harmed by German research in the 1930s?
I'm at work so I can't youtube, so I can't see exactly what he said, but its pretty standard practice in journalism to allow people to comment on stories that are about them... perhaps his comments were misinterpreted. I would like to see the exact quote.
If this has ever happened to you know, you know how much damage it can generate, especially if its on the 2nd level of a house and goes unnoticed for any length of time. They could also perhaps increase the tank capacity back to reasonable levels and only use as much water as necessary to appease the water conservation freaks (the residential toilets sold now have jokingly low capacities and therefore weak flushes due to federal laws passed in the 1990s)
Nuclear power is only relatively expensive because of unreasonable/unfair government regulation. Nuclear plants would never have been built in the 50s/60s/70s in large numbers if this wasn't the case.
Like you mentioned, the plant at Three Mile Island safeguards worked just fine - the whole story was overblown by the media. This was even before the excessive regulation drove up the price point to where coal was cheaper.
The syntax for equations are about the only redeeming feature of LaTeX. Every other typesetting feature is hideously painful. "OK, I want to change the page margins... um, I'm not really allowed to do that hard? Are you sure this is a 'typsetting' language?" Not to mention, you can't do anything without a template. Not without a low-grade headache, in any case.
The only war you can make a case for is WWII. The War of 1812 was basically started by the US in an ill-conceived attempt to conquer Canada.
WWI we really didn't have much business picking either side, per the tradition of George Washington and the Monroe doctrine. At the beginning the US tried to arm both sides, but the US basically had to choose between arming one side or arming neither side. The US had much greater financial ties with Great Britain which in the end was the decisive factor
Between applications from recent grads that can't find jobs, ex-grads currently working at Starbucks, and those folks laid off to increase CEO paychecks, EVERY job market is already flooded. Might as well do something you enjoy for 4 years. You're going to be fucked after that no matter what field you go into.
Actually no, they need tons of doctors and nurses.
5. A few people mentioned the ethical issue of arming merchant ships. This is always considered in warplans, from low to very high scale. Bottom line is that it's a dumb idea that will get you one free shot and then cost you your whole merchant fleet.
That only applies if your enemy is not going to target your merchant fleet, which it often will. As other posters have mentioned, the British did this all the time in WWI and WWII. They were called Q ships and were fairly effective against the German Uboats
I think the hope was that if they had phony people sign up to the event, the group would become popular enough so that real people would start signing up as well. Kind of like if someone is holding a party, there are lots of people that aren't going to go unless there's enough people there, it becomes a catch-22. This was several years ago, maybe they don't do that anymore, I know people who haven't had positive experiences with meetup.
Yeah, i think meetup.com would do this. I remember tying to start a pickup soccer group a while back.. we had maybe a dozen people confirm a meeting, and then two showed up.
When I grew up in Hungary in the 1950s, life was somewhat difficult. My family was lucky, as my father was a supervisor at a washing machine factory, and my mother was lucky to have a job as a seamstress. W
Apparently, you had one thing that alot of US kids don't ahve these days - a two parent family.
The director of the CRU, Phil Jones, alone has collected almost 27 million in grants since 1990. That's $27,000,000 (figured I'd write it out long hand since you don't seem to understand that that is a LOT of money).
Grant != salary. A grant is a budget - it pays for equipment, the salary of grad students, post docs and technicians, and maybe some study-related travel (have to go to the Artic and Antartic to get those ice cores)
And most institutions will take about half the grant money right off the top, to justify the use their facilities (buildings, etc.) Some university professors will tie their salary to the grant, in which case they have to give less money to the university. the drawback is if their grant gets cut then so does their salary.
$27 million since 1990 is not that much in the larger scheme of things. Thats about $1.25 million per year = maybe $600k per year. Maybe that pays for about ten or so grad students, post-docs and technicians. Thats a fairly big lab, but there are much bigger ones.
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That was my biggest disappointment with Google+. They had a golden opportunity to integrate social networking, chat, and email, and all they did was throw up a knockoff of Facebook. I have gmail up nearly constantly, not so much with Facebook
You know... Calling someone "deniers" is quite simply not science at all- it's just another form of religion when you start down that path.
No, I think it has its place. Look at the Holocaust. What would you call the people who claimed it never happened (or that the death toll was only in the thousands), in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?
It has to do with the approach to the debate One of the most common approaches is link bombing. Basically whenever someone posts a story about AGW on an online forum, they throw out a bunch of links to contrary to opinions, even if they has very little to do with the particular aspect of AGW they are talking about
I think there is a distinction between "healthy skepticism" and "denialism"
Motorcycles are simply not practical for most folks. You have to brave the elements, at most you have a one passenger capacity, and you can't haul much. And they just much more dangerous than cars. Everyone I know that owns a motorcycle also owns a car.
A great explanation, which made sense. But now I just have more questions. Like, "I will put a ball in one of these boxes, but I will not tell you which one I put it in. Now from your perspective, Neither the statement 'this box has the ball in it' nor 'this box does not have the ball in it' is true. You have no way of selecting which box I put the ball in." How is this any different?
What I am saying is, I don't see how there is any 'entanglement' there. It's just either in one diamond or the other. It's only our perception that doesn't know which one it is in.
Understanding wave-particle duality and the nature of light is critical to understanding modern physics. The easiest way I know of explaining this is through double-slit experiment.
With the double-slit experiment, you pass light between two slits that are space closely together (on the order of the wavelength of light). If you then place a screen some distance away from the slits, you will observe an interference pattern. Thomas Young used this experiment in the early 1800s and it appeared to settle the issue of nature of light (namely, that it travelled as a wave) in the physics community.
Then in 1905, Einstein wrote a paper which deduced that the photoelectric effect could only be explained using a particle model for light (This is what he won the Noble prize for, not for relativity ...).
The problem is that something can't be a wave and particle. Waves can interfere and pass through each other, but particles cannot (they collide). So, which is light? Since the time of Newton, it was suspected to be a wave, due to interference. Young's double slit experiment was especially convincing.
The modern answer is "It depends, depending on how the experiment is performed." If you repeat Young's interference experiment, but place a detector at each slit, you will not get an inteference pattern, you will get two sharp peaks on the screen centered around each slit. This is what you would expect from a particle model of light (the photon must pass through one slit or the other, it cannot pass through both). Even if you do the experiment so slowly, and only allow single photon at a time to pass through the slit, you will still get an inteference pattern.
In brief, what happens is when you make an observation, the wave function of the particle is said to "collapse" onto one state or the other. But, when we aren't observing, the particle exists in a superposition of all possible states.
Buying imports? Spending on foreign services (like, playing WoW)? All your money drains out of the country.
And now that country has money to buy the goods and services that your country produces...
With all the inflation created by the Fed to feed the ever hungry Treasury, why bother with the IRS? Here is a cost cutting for you: abolish the IRS and just keep counterfeiting. There is no difference. IRS is just a token dep't, existing for the sake of existing, today, that government only collects a small part of its expenses in taxes and borrows and prints the rest.
In FY 2010, the U.S. collected $2.1 trillion in taxes, and borrowed $1.3 trillion, I would hardly consider ~2/3 to be a small part.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=200
What makes this news troubling is that the researcher succeeded in being published in Science which was supposed to have a rigorous and effective peer-review process.
Peer review can't detect faked data, only bogus methodology.
And if an astronomer doesn't understand his telescope, I'd question how good of an astronomer they really are.
Has Professor Knuth no longer any proper influence over those at Standford?
Probably not. He's been Emeritus for a while now.
Science is absolutely not a competition. Was Argentina harmed because the US went to the moon? Was Russia harmed when penicillin was discovered? No, not at all. China's increased scientific research is a benefit to all of us.
Was Europe harmed by German research in the 1930s?
The New York Times has been dead to me ever since Bill Keller, Executive Editor, admitted that he won't publish anything relating to the US govt. without their prior approval.
I'm at work so I can't youtube, so I can't see exactly what he said, but its pretty standard practice in journalism to allow people to comment on stories that are about them ... perhaps his comments were misinterpreted. I would like to see the exact quote.
If this has ever happened to you know, you know how much damage it can generate, especially if its on the 2nd level of a house and goes unnoticed for any length of time. They could also perhaps increase the tank capacity back to reasonable levels and only use as much water as necessary to appease the water conservation freaks (the residential toilets sold now have jokingly low capacities and therefore weak flushes due to federal laws passed in the 1990s)
Nuclear power is only relatively expensive because of unreasonable/unfair government regulation. Nuclear plants would never have been built in the 50s/60s/70s in large numbers if this wasn't the case.
Like you mentioned, the plant at Three Mile Island safeguards worked just fine - the whole story was overblown by the media. This was even before the excessive regulation drove up the price point to where coal was cheaper.
Rickover made those comments in 1953. I think a bit has changed since then.
The syntax for equations are about the only redeeming feature of LaTeX. Every other typesetting feature is hideously painful. "OK, I want to change the page margins... um, I'm not really allowed to do that hard? Are you sure this is a 'typsetting' language?" Not to mention, you can't do anything without a template. Not without a low-grade headache, in any case.
The only war you can make a case for is WWII. The War of 1812 was basically started by the US in an ill-conceived attempt to conquer Canada.
WWI we really didn't have much business picking either side, per the tradition of George Washington and the Monroe doctrine. At the beginning the US tried to arm both sides, but the US basically had to choose between arming one side or arming neither side. The US had much greater financial ties with Great Britain which in the end was the decisive factor
I have not encountered a scientist that publishes "all of their data", there is just way too much of it.
And even if they did, so what. The way fraud gets ferreted out is when people try to replicate their results.
Between applications from recent grads that can't find jobs, ex-grads currently working at Starbucks, and those folks laid off to increase CEO paychecks, EVERY job market is already flooded. Might as well do something you enjoy for 4 years. You're going to be fucked after that no matter what field you go into.
Actually no, they need tons of doctors and nurses.
5. A few people mentioned the ethical issue of arming merchant ships. This is always considered in warplans, from low to very high scale. Bottom line is that it's a dumb idea that will get you one free shot and then cost you your whole merchant fleet.
That only applies if your enemy is not going to target your merchant fleet, which it often will. As other posters have mentioned, the British did this all the time in WWI and WWII. They were called Q ships and were fairly effective against the German Uboats
You ripped that scene out of "Europa, Europa!" but nice try.
I think the hope was that if they had phony people sign up to the event, the group would become popular enough so that real people would start signing up as well. Kind of like if someone is holding a party, there are lots of people that aren't going to go unless there's enough people there, it becomes a catch-22. This was several years ago, maybe they don't do that anymore, I know people who haven't had positive experiences with meetup.
Yeah, i think meetup.com would do this. I remember tying to start a pickup soccer group a while back.. we had maybe a dozen people confirm a meeting, and then two showed up.
I assume you're opposed to antibiotics? Sunscreen? Clothing? Humans have made all types of adaptations to cover for our "genetic weaknesses".
American youth today have it very easy.
When I grew up in Hungary in the 1950s, life was somewhat difficult. My family was lucky, as my father was a supervisor at a washing machine factory, and my mother was lucky to have a job as a seamstress. W
Apparently, you had one thing that alot of US kids don't ahve these days - a two parent family.
The director of the CRU, Phil Jones, alone has collected almost 27 million in grants since 1990. That's $27,000,000 (figured I'd write it out long hand since you don't seem to understand that that is a LOT of money).
Grant != salary. A grant is a budget - it pays for equipment, the salary of grad students, post docs and technicians, and maybe some study-related travel (have to go to the Artic and Antartic to get those ice cores)
And most institutions will take about half the grant money right off the top, to justify the use their facilities (buildings, etc.) Some university professors will tie their salary to the grant, in which case they have to give less money to the university. the drawback is if their grant gets cut then so does their salary.
$27 million since 1990 is not that much in the larger scheme of things. Thats about $1.25 million per year = maybe $600k per year. Maybe that pays for about ten or so grad students, post-docs and technicians. Thats a fairly big lab, but there are much bigger ones.