May 2013
10 posts
April 2013
9 posts
March 2013
4 posts
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.”
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003)
February 2013
8 posts
Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration →
Matthew Barsalou
The idea of red-shirted characters being frequently killed in Star Trek: The Original Series has become a pop culture cliché. But is wearing a redshirt in Star Trek as hazardous as it is thought to be?
ikenbot:
“Besides at the end of the day the theory of evolution is just a theory.”
“Science robs the awe from life”
“NASA’s budget is big enough already”
“Man made climate change isn’t even real.”
“Science and religion can’t coexist.”
“Idk about those facts but.. the hollow Earth theory seems legit”
“omg I love astronomology and the signs”
January 2013
3 posts
December 2012
7 posts
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and...”
– Carl Sagan (via scinerds)
Scinerds: aminotes: Cargo cult science by Richard... →
aminotes:
Cargo cult science by Richard Feynman
Adapted from the Caltech commencement address given in 1974.
“During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating…
November 2012
13 posts
Green's Equations in Physics Today
Prof. Jones: “So if you asked a kindergartener to approximate an arbitrary impulse function, what would they do?”
Class: “uh….”
Prof. Jones: “They would approximate it as a sum of delta functions. If they were a smart kindergartener.”
