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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Seems that children from religious backgrounds have a much harder time separating fact from fiction.

    Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/full
    Abstract wrote:
    In two studies, 5- and 6-year-old children were questioned about the status of the protagonist embedded in three different types of stories. In realistic stories that only included ordinary events, all children, irrespective of family background and schooling, claimed that the protagonist was a real person. In religious stories that included ordinarily impossible events brought about by divine intervention, claims about the status of the protagonist varied sharply with exposure to religion. Children who went to church or were enrolled in a parochial school, or both, judged the protagonist in religious stories to be a real person, whereas secular children with no such exposure to religion judged the protagonist in religious stories to be fictional. Children's upbringing was also related to their judgment about the protagonist in fantastical stories that included ordinarily impossible events whether brought about by magic (Study 1) or without reference to magic (Study 2). Secular children were more likely than religious children to judge the protagonist in such fantastical stories to be fictional. The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    ^^ reminds me of :)

    Study finds studies are wrong

    Based on an attempt to replicate published studies, many failed. Among the reasons given were small sample size and a culture to not criticise senior colleagues in the field. It seems like the social sciences are facing many credibility issues.



    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-science-findings-not-as-strong-as-claimed-study-says.html?_r=0

    The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study supporting the existence of ESP that was widely criticized. The journal Science pulled a political science paper on the effect of gay canvassers on voters’ behavior because of concerns about faked data.

    Now, a painstaking yearslong effort to reproduce 100 studies published in three leading psychology journals has found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested. The analysis was done by research psychologists, many of whom volunteered their time to double-check what they considered important work. Their conclusions, reported Thursday in the journal Science, have confirmed the worst fears of scientists who have long worried that the field needed a strong correction.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    silverharp wrote: »
    a brief intro into computational ethics , the idea that AI in the future will have to be programmed to make ethical decisions

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics ? (cba to watch video :p )

    Scrap the cap!



  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,510 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Not religious...but

    The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon by Richard Gale



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The New Yorker casts an eye back over Cotton Mather and the Salem Witch Trials:

    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem?mbid=social_facebook


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭legspin


    http://www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/an-evening-with-richard-dawkins

    Going myself. Thought other folk here may be interested.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    legspin wrote: »
    http://www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/an-evening-with-richard-dawkins

    Going myself. Thought other folk here may be interested.
    Oh nice thanks, signed up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Booked!

    I think a pint or two afterwards will be called for...


    ETA: Mrs Desiato wants to know if there is anywhere in the area that serves gluten-free Hawaiian pizza. Now that's a heresy on two counts :pac:

    Scrap the cap!



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    ETA: Mrs Desiato wants to know if there is anywhere in the area that serves gluten-free Hawaiian pizza.
    There's a Milano in Dun Laoghaire a few yards from the library which does gluten-free pizzas. Not so sure about the pineapples though :)

    http://www.milano.ie/pdfs/files/SPRM15_MIL_MAIN_003084_LR.PDF


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,181 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    a new one on me - andorra's co-ruler (along with (currently) francois hollande) is a catholic bishop, and it's a postion which comes with his role in the church:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Enric_Vives_Sic%C3%ADlia


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,474 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    a new one on me - andorra's co-ruler (along with (currently) francois hollande) is a catholic bishop, and it's a postion which comes with his role in the church:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Enric_Vives_Sic%C3%ADlia
    That's a QI piece of trivia right there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    a new one on me - andorra's co-ruler (along with (currently) francois hollande) is a catholic bishop, and it's a postion which comes with his role in the church:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Enric_Vives_Sic%C3%ADlia


    I thought HQ had banned them from political office way back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Is it a new one, or is one of the other ones with a funny shaped head? Only trial by anthropologist combat can decide......

    "Homo naledi: New species of ancient human discovered, claim scientists
    Bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative, say researchers, but some experts are sceptical of find"
    http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/10/new-species-of-ancient-human-discovered-claim-scientists

    Anyone with a thing about small spaces might want to dodge the diagram there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Nodin wrote: »
    Is it a new one, or is one of the other ones with a funny shaped head? Only trial by anthropologist combat can decide......

    "Homo naledi: New species of ancient human discovered, claim scientists
    Bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative, say researchers, but some experts are sceptical of find"
    http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/10/new-species-of-ancient-human-discovered-claim-scientists

    Anyone with a thing about small spaces might want to dodge the diagram there.

    I was warned, but still looked. 8 inches. Arrrrgh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    looksee wrote: »
    I was warned, but still looked. 8 inches. Arrrrgh

    The question "how did they go through that?" arises on two levels.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    They missed a trick in not calling these lads Gollums.
    Especially after finding the Hobbits a few years ago in Asia.

    I think I know what the "superman's crawl" section of the cave is about.
    I was down a very tight chute a few years ago, and told the only way through was to adopt the superman crawl position; one arm forward to pull yourself along, and one arm back towards your leg. That way your shoulders are squeezed into a diagonal, and you wiggle along. Never again.
    "Dragon's back" must be an even worse contortion, I suspect the vertebrae would suffer terribly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭Michael OBrien


    Nodin wrote: »
    Is it a new one, or is one of the other ones with a funny shaped head? Only trial by anthropologist combat can decide......

    "Homo naledi: New species of ancient human discovered, claim scientists
    Bones found in South African cave are Homo naledi, a new species of ancient human relative, say researchers, but some experts are sceptical of find"
    http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/10/new-species-of-ancient-human-discovered-claim-scientists

    Anyone with a thing about small spaces might want to dodge the diagram there.

    I am excited to see how they will date it and when they do how old the bones are. I am betting close to the 2 million mark (younger than 2), probably a cousin species not a direct ancestor.
    Report will be exciting no matter what age they turn out to be, but the popular media will probably feck it up with all sorts of nonsense as usual.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    interesting little prediction/observation on the next big "anti" , the 2000's was the Anti Theist decade , in the last couple of years Anti Feminist seems to have caught on as observed by popular channels like Thunderf00t morphing as so. the next Anti could be progressivism in general.


    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    OK, so Richard Dawkins only took off as an atheist because of 9/11. Then he and his buddies all moved to anti-feminism, and now the next big thing for these trendies is to become conservatives. Right so. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    recedite wrote: »
    OK, so Richard Dawkins only took off as an atheist because of 9/11. Then he and his buddies all moved to anti-feminism, and now the next big thing for these trendies is to become conservatives. Right so. ;)

    I didn't take that from it , Dawkins has a specific niche , so he will keep doing what he does. I have noticed though that some of the atheist channels are tackling topics related to other cultural vandals .

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    recedite wrote: »
    OK, so Richard Dawkins only took off as an atheist because of 9/11. Then he and his buddies all moved to anti-feminism, and now the next big thing for these trendies is to become conservatives. Right so. ;)

    I did a bit of Googling about the creator of that video, he seems to be connected to the "Men Going Their Own Way" movement, so naturally he'd have a bone to pick with progressivism.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ Liana Important Pea


    Is there no merit to simply stating your position as anti-bull****?

    What ism is that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,690 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    silverharp wrote: »
    interesting little prediction/observation on the next big "anti" , the 2000's was the Anti Theist decade , in the last couple of years Anti Feminist seems to have caught on as observed by popular channels like Thunderf00t morphing as so. the next Anti could be progressivism in general.
    The next Anti is already here, silverharp. It's Anti Muslim. Had you not noticed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I did a bit of Googling about the creator of that video, he seems to be connected to the "Men Going Their Own Way" movement, so naturally he'd have a bone to pick with progressivism.

    there is a queue , where I noticed it first was the Youtube channel Atheism is Unstoppable, he started out as mostly poking fun at christians but now spends most of his time going after the far left progressives on Islam, and race etc. I cant say I agree with everything he puts out but given the way the US is , if you have fox at one end the "Anti Fox" networks are sounding just as kooky these days like TYT

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    The next Anti is already here, silverharp. It's Anti Muslim. Had you not noticed?

    that will be a long burn I guess. What I see there is that most people arent interested in actually learning about Islam because its far too tedious to learn about. Whats more interesting is the reaction to it , you have the religious right, broadly Liberal and left progressive. If you like to think of yourself as a Liberal then both extreme look equally flawed

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Weird.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bizarre-leaflet-claims-to-offer-mobile-euthanasia-1.2351391
    Mystery surrounds a bizarre leaflet drop in North Dublin claiming to offer euthanasia services in Ireland.

    Tranquillity Euthanasia claims to offer a mobile automated service to clients that is sensitive and legal.

    Euthanasia and assisted suicide are illegal in Ireland, while they are legal in Belgium and Switzerland.

    The glossy, four-page leaflet says the organisation is Irish-owned and has worked hand-in-hand with engineers in Belgium and a legal team in Switzerland to develop its “euthanasia portal”.

    This allows clients to “take that last step in life at a time of their choosing, in comfortable surroundings, in dignity without fear of legal repercussion”.

    The leaflet then explains the nine easy steps to “eternal tranquillity”.

    Scrap the cap!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No! Dub - Dubendorf, not Dublin!


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    National Geographic sells itself. To climate-change deniers, Rupert Murdoch and the general Fox News hivemind. Viewers are not happy.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/viewers-vow-boycott-after-rupert-murdoch-buys-natgeo-cash-triumphs-over-conservation-conscience/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    looksee wrote: »
    No! Dub - Dubendorf, not Dublin!

    :confused:

    Scrap the cap!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    I'd say the tranquility thing is a spoof by some anti-euthanasia people, designed to generate public outrage. Thereby preparing a hostile environment for any politician thinking of publicly supporting any changes to the current laws which make it illegal for relatives to travel or help in any way with a terminally ill person's possible trip to a Dignitas centre abroad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Scrap the cap!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    He should have kept it under his hat.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    The Igs are Out!

    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34278595
    BBC wrote:
    Chemistry - Callum Ormonde (University of Western Australia) and colleagues, for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg.

    Physics - Patricia Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology, US) and colleagues, for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).

    Literature - Mark Dingemanse (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) and colleagues, for discovering that the word "huh?" (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language - and for not being quite sure why.

    Management - Gennaro Bernile (Singapore Management University) and colleagues, for discovering that many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that - for them - had no dire personal consequences.

    Economics - The Bangkok Metropolitan Police (Thailand) for offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse to take bribes.

    Medicine - joint award: Hajime Kimata (Kimata Hajime Clinic, Japan) and also Jaroslava Durdiaková (Comenius University, Slovakia) and her collagues, for experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences of intense kissing (and other intimate, interpersonal activities).

    Mathematics - Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer (University of Vienna, Austria) for trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children.

    Biology - Bruno Grossi (University of Chile) and colleagues, for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked.

    Diagnostic medicine - Diallah Karim (Stoke Mandeville Hospital, UK) and colleagues, for determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps.

    Physiology and entomology - Awarded jointly to two individuals: Justin Schmidt (Southwest Biological Institute, US) for painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects; and to Michael L. Smith (Cornell University, US), for carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm). and which are the most painful (the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft).


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    ^^^

    He let a bee sting him on the mickey for science?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    pauldla wrote: »
    He let a bee sting him on the mickey for science?
    There are some people whose dedication you have to admire. But not replicate.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am trying to envision how the actual research into appendicitis and speed bumps was achieved.

    Ambulance driver: 'We have a call to bring in a suspected appendix'
    Researcher (sitting in cafe waiting for the call): 'oh goody, can I come?'


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    robindch wrote: »
    There are some people whose dedication you have to admire. But not replicate.

    Indeed. I note that the article specifies shaft, as opposed to other areas of the member, which presumably were also tested for comparison. I also presume he had to anger the bees in some way to provoke them to sting. :confused:


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    looksee wrote: »
    I am trying to envision how the actual research into appendicitis and speed bumps was achieved.

    I can (unfortunately) confirm that speed bumps (or, for that matter, driving through Tuam) have a similar effect on someone with a stent in their ureter :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    robindch wrote: »
    National Geographic sells itself. To climate-change deniers, Rupert Murdoch and the general Fox News hivemind. Viewers are not happy.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/viewers-vow-boycott-after-rupert-murdoch-buys-natgeo-cash-triumphs-over-conservation-conscience/
    Saw that on Reddit the day after I renewed for a year, never again :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,782 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    I can (unfortunately) confirm that speed bumps (or, for that matter, driving through Tuam) have a similar effect on someone with a stent in their ureter :(

    I can well believe that, but I bet you didn't have someone in the ambulance taking notes and asking on a scale of 1 - 10 how painful the last bump was. :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    So in future instead of the doctor prodding your tummy if they think your appendix is on the fritz, will they sit you up straight and then wheel your trolley over a specially designed 'diagnostic course' :pac:

    I thought that was the best one, you do have to admire the lateral thinking behind it, and it's actually potentially very useful :)

    Scrap the cap!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,492 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    pauldla wrote: »
    Indeed. I note that the article specifies shaft, as opposed to other areas of the member, which presumably were also tested for comparison. I also presume he had to anger the bees in some way to provoke them to sting. :confused:

    Maybe bees don't like blaxploitation soundtracks.

    Scrap the cap!



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    'God With Us' on a Nazi belt buckle.

    1069962.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    looksee wrote: »
    I am trying to envision how the actual research into appendicitis and speed bumps was achieved.

    Ambulance driver: 'We have a call to bring in a suspected appendix'
    Researcher (sitting in cafe waiting for the call): 'oh goody, can I come?'

    It was Stoke Mandevile hospital, the run in to it is littered with speed bumps, both in the estates you need to drive through to get to the site and then in the hospital ground itself. According to an article I read about this they questioned patients on arrival. The speed bump test was a negative indicator, it worked really well for spotting what wasn't appendicitis. They found no cases where someone with appendicitis didn't feel pain on the speed bumps. So, if you had suspected appendicitis bit did not feel pain on the speed bumps then it wasn't appendicitis. Pain on the speed bumps was not a sufficient diagnostic tool to prove appendicitis, as there were other potential causes.

    Actually a very cool study.

    MrP


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Eleven institutions collaborated on this awe-inspiring project: the tree displays the relationships between living things (2.3 million species of life–with creatures ranging from plants and microbes to dinosaurs and modern mammals) as they diverged from each other over a time span of 3.5 billion years.

    tree-of-life1.jpg

    More here: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/2015/09/20/tree-life-evolution-interrelationships-3-5-billion-years/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp




    Dawkins has weighed in here, I think he is right

    http://gawker.com/priorities-confused-1731919698

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    silverharp wrote: »
    Dawkins has weighed in here, I think he is right

    http://gawker.com/priorities-confused-1731919698

    Sorry....you what now?! He's right?! Dear jaysus on a bike...how many 14 yr olds do you know? Serious question.

    My 14 yr old reckoned he'd invented the sandwich the other day. He argued his point thoroughly and nearly won. If it had have been a clock he'd "invented", I'd have fecking let him win. Dawkins comes across as the meanist spirited most pedantic aul curmudgeon that ever lived with his reaction. Speculating that the lad wanted to be arrested? HUGE, MASSIVE public relations disaster for him. When will that man ever learn? What a knob.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Its a clock that looks like a bomb.
    I don't think the kid bought it that way and disassembled it. I think he created it, so he's not a fraud.
    Dawkins could still be right in assessing the kid's motivation though. I suspect some mischievous intent, and if so, the authorities have played right into his hands. I'm guessing he's a hero among his classmates right now, and rightly so.. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    recedite wrote: »
    Its a clock that looks like a bomb.
    I don't think the kid bought it that way and disassembled it. I think he created it, so he's not a fraud.
    Dawkins could still be right in assessing the kid's motivation though. I suspect some mischievous intent, and if so, the authorities have played right into his hands. I'm guessing he's a hero among his classmates right now, and rightly so.. :D

    Do we yet have a picture of the actual clock? Because as I recall, clock parts actually look quite messy outside of a manufactured box. I can make a bomb-looking item out of my youngest's makey-makey kit combined with his various robot thingies that still need soldering together, but I'm very sure I can't make a working clock. Really, if he was proud of his clock - why wouldn't he bring it to school and show teachers? My kid would be showing everyone from the bus driver to the canteen woman.

    Can't we let the lad be a kid? The 'murican police took that away from him but we don't have to, and Richard Dawkins would have had a whole lot more sense not to as well. I actually don't think it's particularly classy to speculate on the boy's motivation or whether he meant it to look like a bomb.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,673 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Shrap wrote: »
    Sorry....you what now?! He's right?! Dear jaysus on a bike...how many 14 yr olds do you know? Serious question.

    My 14 yr old reckoned he'd invented the sandwich the other day. He argued his point thoroughly and nearly won. If it had have been a clock he'd "invented", I'd have fecking let him win. Dawkins comes across as the meanist spirited most pedantic aul curmudgeon that ever lived with his reaction. Speculating that the lad wanted to be arrested? HUGE, MASSIVE public relations disaster for him. When will that man ever learn? What a knob.

    it depends on the facts , so far the ones ive heard are that the clock didnt have a battery so had to be plugged in and thats what he did in his english class and set the alarm to go off. When he was challenged he went all passive aggressive and didnt ask his engineering teacher to vouch for him and he did all this on the first school day after "9/11".

    we will see I guess

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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