[ShooterSF]

Originally Posted by amacachi

Penn and Teller are EXTREMELY right-wing tbh, which helps me watch their shows.

True I guess I meant socially right wing like religious conservatives etc.

[robindch]

Silly scientists create two holes in the fossil record, where once there was just a single hole:

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/12...g-link/?hpt=C2

[sponsoredwalk]

"Crackpots" who were right.

Whatever the cause, he ended his life feeling lonely and rejected.
When Feynman gave a lecture in Switzerland in 1965 he spotted
Stückelberg after the lecture leaving quietly from the back. Pointing
to Stückelberg, Feynman remarked ”He did the work and walks alone
toward the sunset; and, here I am, covered in all the glory, which
rightfully should be his!”

The story of Stückelberg shows just how easy it is to be overlooked in
science. There is no convincing reason why he was not given the full
credit he deserved for his work, but it would have helped if he
had presented his work more clearly and fully. While people like
Feynman gave seminars and wrote books, Stückelberg seems to have
quietly accepted his rejections and left it to others to speak up for him.
But that was something they did not do enough. There is a lesson to
be learnt here. Most of us cannot claim achievements comparable to
those of Stückelberg so if he can be overlooked the rest of us should
take nothing for granted. It does no good to make a discovery and
bury it so deep that nobody pays any attention until it is rediscovered
by someone else who is better at presenting it. Research needs to be
explained clearly and publicly or it sinks into obscurity.

[magicbastarder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...ers?CMP=twt_fd

[CiaranMT]

Originally Posted by magicbastarder

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...ers?CMP=twt_fd

He was looking for it, in fairness.

AH responses aside, I think religious folk could do with a dose of humour in these situations. The 'artist' is clearly looking to be controversial, and it should be seen as such.

[Improbable]

[sink]

Videos from the Global Athiest Convention 2010 in Melbourne have finally begun appearing on the web.

Richard Dawkins


PZ Myers


Taslima Nasrin

[Hedman]

I miss Carl Sagan so much

[The Mad Hatter]

Can't embed this (it's on Vimeo), but it's worth a watch. The guy who does PhD Comics interviewed a couple of physicists on the subject of dark matter. This video is the result.

[strobe]

Theramintrees again.

Ignorance of incompetence.

[The Mad Hatter]

Originally Posted by strobe

Theramintrees again.

Ignorance of incompetence.

Fascinating - I'd never heard of that before. Followed it up a little with a bit of University of Google research - what's really intriguing is that it seems to be at its most extreme in America, and evenreversed in other countries.

Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others.

[CiaranMT]

May have studied that this term in college, attendance was so poor though for the class that I could be wrong!

[Jernal]

Originally Posted by CiaranMT

May have studied that this term in college, attendance was so poor though for the class that I could be wrong!

Lol love the way you removed your own 'self' from that admission of poor attendance.

"My attendance" would probably be used more often when you actually feel the attendance reflected positively on yourself. Can't remember what that phenomenon is called.

[strobe]

Originally Posted by CiaranMT

May have studied that this term in college, attendance was so poor though for the class that I could be wrong!

Winning.

[CiaranMT]

Originally Posted by Malty_T

Lol love the way you removed your own 'self' from that admission of poor attendance.

"My attendance" would probably be used more often when you actually feel the attendance reflected positively on yourself. Can't remember what that phenomenon is called.

Well, I was referring to my fellow classmates as well as myself, we're not the most studious of Psych heads