I'm not saying treat every position as equally valid. I didn't say that. I paraphrased Carl Sagan's words about using reason to prove our points. I didn't say that people that are wrong are still right because every opinion is valid, I was trying to say that even if people watch Fox News because they like it, we can't just say "FOX NEWS sucks and people that watch it are idiots!" because that's as irrational as what we might find wrong with Fox News. Do you understand?
Fox is not Fox News channel. Knee-jerk anyone? BTW, Fox News channel exists because people want to fucking hear what they say. Love it or hate it, you have to share the planet with people that watch it and enjoy it too.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a great show and I'm sure any attempt to recreate some of that brand of awesome will be commendable. You know, Carl Sagan wrote in his book "The Demon-Haunted World" that people shouldn't be silenced just because you don't agree with them. Use reason, not emotion. We are all humans, let's start to prove it.
You don't even need liquid nitrogen. Get a bottle of canned air (for keyboards) and hold it upside down. Spray that on your wart and it will freeze the sucker just as good. It also does wonders for ingrown toenails.
This reminds me of the scene in Austin Powers where the guy screams as a steamroller comes barreling at him at a couple feet per minute. And he stands there and screams for the entire two minutes it takes for the steamroller to reach him and run him over.
Hey! In two years, I'll release the bestest mesh network system ever! I promise!
The technology he is referring to is a time machine that would allow him to go back in the past and make us forget how much he has fucked up Star Wars in the time since 1997.
"Furthermore, the acceleration appears consistent with other studies from the Atlantic coast, though the magnitude of the acceleration in North Carolina is larger than at sites farther north along the U.S. and Canadian Atlantic coast and may be indicative of a latitudinal trend related to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet."
The article does state that NC's coast is creeping more quickly than at other points along the Atlantic coast.
I believe you mean "falsifiability" instead of unfalsifiability when you say it is one of the major tenants. Apart from that (which i think is an honest mistake) I agree with you 100%
After a short stint in the field of science education, I've realized that many of the science teachers and most parents I met do not understand science. I believe that this is why our children are falling behind in science. The non-science graduate teacher teaches kids that there are 6 magical steps to the scientific method and that if they follow these steps, no matter how inane the results, then the kids have performed SCIENCE!!!WOW MAGIC!!!!
When I helped judge science fair projects, I saw that most of the winning entrants scored highest on presentation, not on actual science. And on the bottom scoring end there were kids who actually did real science, but couldn't present it very well. That's kind of how it works in the field of science too. Companies make this work by having teams that collaborate and work on projects together and a lot of times this approach actually works. The way science fairs are done now, the kid who spells all the words correctly or labels the steps of the scientific method but doesn't actually experiment on anything ranks higher than the kid who does a real experiment but doesn't explain it very well. This only serves to reward only presentation and steers inquisitive kids away from science. I think the best hope for real science in elementary schools is for more collaboration in science fairs, that way you learn about teamwork and the experience actually mirrors the real world's expectations of good science.
This attention-grab happens in more than just newspapers. Engineers in my department all have to pitch their project as the MOST AWESOME project with the best bang for the buck EVER! People do not have much of an attention span any more.
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I'm not saying treat every position as equally valid. I didn't say that. I paraphrased Carl Sagan's words about using reason to prove our points. I didn't say that people that are wrong are still right because every opinion is valid, I was trying to say that even if people watch Fox News because they like it, we can't just say "FOX NEWS sucks and people that watch it are idiots!" because that's as irrational as what we might find wrong with Fox News. Do you understand?
I'm talking about the comments. Who reads articles on slashdot?
Fox is not Fox News channel. Knee-jerk anyone? BTW, Fox News channel exists because people want to fucking hear what they say. Love it or hate it, you have to share the planet with people that watch it and enjoy it too.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos is a great show and I'm sure any attempt to recreate some of that brand of awesome will be commendable. You know, Carl Sagan wrote in his book "The Demon-Haunted World" that people shouldn't be silenced just because you don't agree with them. Use reason, not emotion. We are all humans, let's start to prove it.
You should do standup.
I wish I had mod points for that.
You could always just pay what you think the other game is worth or gift the games you have to someone else.
No it just means that one of you paid $10.38 and the other paid $10.40.
You don't even need liquid nitrogen. Get a bottle of canned air (for keyboards) and hold it upside down. Spray that on your wart and it will freeze the sucker just as good. It also does wonders for ingrown toenails.
This reminds me of the scene in Austin Powers where the guy screams as a steamroller comes barreling at him at a couple feet per minute. And he stands there and screams for the entire two minutes it takes for the steamroller to reach him and run him over.
Hey! In two years, I'll release the bestest mesh network system ever! I promise!
*Citation needed. I mean that sounds good, but I don't want to just believe it without some proof.
You're right, baby boomers are way more tech savvy than grandma.
My grandma calls websites "double-u double-u double-u's". There's no frigging way that she could handle something like this online.
So when do we get these stealth internets for here in the US of A?
The technology he is referring to is a time machine that would allow him to go back in the past and make us forget how much he has fucked up Star Wars in the time since 1997.
Wait for them to steal something that has actual value.
Looks like you didn't read either.
"Furthermore, the acceleration appears consistent with other studies from the Atlantic coast, though the magnitude of the acceleration in North Carolina is larger than at sites farther north along the U.S. and Canadian Atlantic coast and may be indicative of a latitudinal trend related to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet."
The article does state that NC's coast is creeping more quickly than at other points along the Atlantic coast.
The 3d movies I've seen only make bad movies worse. And they're all bad movies.
Is prostrate cancer the kind of cancer you get from lying facedown too much?
What's a record?
They went ahead and put past tense for when the editors dupe this article in a month.
I said tenets, I just had a cold and it sounded like I said tenants.
I believe you mean "falsifiability" instead of unfalsifiability when you say it is one of the major tenants. Apart from that (which i think is an honest mistake) I agree with you 100%
After a short stint in the field of science education, I've realized that many of the science teachers and most parents I met do not understand science. I believe that this is why our children are falling behind in science. The non-science graduate teacher teaches kids that there are 6 magical steps to the scientific method and that if they follow these steps, no matter how inane the results, then the kids have performed SCIENCE!!!WOW MAGIC!!!!
When I helped judge science fair projects, I saw that most of the winning entrants scored highest on presentation, not on actual science. And on the bottom scoring end there were kids who actually did real science, but couldn't present it very well. That's kind of how it works in the field of science too. Companies make this work by having teams that collaborate and work on projects together and a lot of times this approach actually works. The way science fairs are done now, the kid who spells all the words correctly or labels the steps of the scientific method but doesn't actually experiment on anything ranks higher than the kid who does a real experiment but doesn't explain it very well. This only serves to reward only presentation and steers inquisitive kids away from science. I think the best hope for real science in elementary schools is for more collaboration in science fairs, that way you learn about teamwork and the experience actually mirrors the real world's expectations of good science.
This attention-grab happens in more than just newspapers. Engineers in my department all have to pitch their project as the MOST AWESOME project with the best bang for the buck EVER! People do not have much of an attention span any more.
I'd like to see the os breakdown of phones that are getting replaced this year.