tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - 7 days ago | death, science
check out this article about death from "one of the leading scientists in the world"
Quoted: Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests death is not the end.
- tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2009 | comedy, science
I forgot how good some of these were...
Quoted: IS HAM TASTY? HELLZ YEAH
ShareViewed: 6 Times - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 11 2009 | philosophy, science
this book has been referenced several times by SR folk. anyone read it?
Quoted: Amazon.com: A Realist Theory of Science (Radical Thinkers) (9781844672042): Roy Bhaskar: Books
ShareViewed: 4 Times - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 10 2009 | science, nature
ShareViewed: 3 Times - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 23 2009 | freedom, science
Quoted: Professor Ariely describes some experiments which demonstrated something he calls “arbitrary coherence”. Basically it means that once you contemplate a decision or actually make a decision, it will heavily influence your subsequent decisions. That’s the coherence part. Your brain will try to keep your decisions consistent with previous decisions you have made. I’ve read about that many times before, but what was surprising in this book was the the “arbitrary” part. The initial anchoring factor can be totally arbitrary, but it will still heavily influence your subsequent decisions.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 21 2009 | philosophy, science
for those of us in the Kant class this quarter. i think this really nicely sums up many of the objections voiced so far. personally, what I think has been so frustrating about this class is that we have been equivocating between what levi calls the strong and weak readings.
for those of you who may know kant better, does this sound accurate? problems?
ShareViewed: 2 Times - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 16 2009 | science
haha -- "otherwise distinguished physicists"
Quoted: Wait, Whaaaaat?: Large Hardron Collider Trying To Destroy Itself From The Future
ShareViewed: 1 Time - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 14 2009 | science
click to playvideos like these make me certain i'm going to keel over dead momentarily
ShareViewed: 8 Times - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 12 2009 | science
click to playnever get tired of them trying to explain this nonsense. love the animation of a contracting and expanding bubble.
Quoted: We made this video about the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood.This video was produced without any funding from a...
ShareViewed: 9 Times - tfwright | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2009 | science, environment, apocalypse
Quoted: Ships with giant funnels which travel the world's seas creating more clouds to deflect the sun's rays could help cut global warming, say scientists.
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- tfwright - May 17 2009
- zerohour - May 17 2009
You must be Floyd's friend before you can comment on this Fave.They found a "butchered jawbone" and their going with this hypothesis??? That's weak evidence. While it's possible, the cut marks on bones that result from cleaning away muscle tissue are in many cases identical, whether the bone is processed to be used as a component of a weapon or whether the meat is taken for food. Also, there is already sufficient evidence to suggest that humans possibly traded with Neanderthals, which could make cannibalism an unlikely sole cause for extinction.
That quote is pretty sensationalist. I dotted this more for humor than scientific edification. Though I find it interesting that you are resistant to the hypothesis, whereas you take (what I would consider) more outlandish scientific theories in stride. Is it possible that this guardian article has touched a nerve, unearthing suppressed ferreraian fears of a cannibalistic essence?
Also, are you quoting there, or is forensic science just one of your many talents you normally keep hidden but then bust out given sufficient provocation (a la super mario bros 3)?
That humans and Neanderthals maintained social interaction (both diplomatic and not) at certain points in the archeological record is pretty text-book ANTH 301 Human Evolution knowledge (I double majored). I'm more shocked that the article will be published without revisions to its hypothesis than anything else. Publishing a find is one thing. Drawing fast and loose conclusions without sufficient evidence to exclude all other possibilities is another.
Send Floyd a friend request or a personal message instead.