... Political words such as 'liberal' and 'conservative' generally don't have tight scientific definitions, which helps to explain why they are so often used...
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bowmanthebard
Jun 1, 2008 8:31 am
... In other words, it assimilates the unfamiliar to the familiar. That's a start! But in any case, we weren't discussing the merits of relativity versus...
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Edgar Owen
edgarowen
Jun 1, 2008 2:07 pm
Artemis, Interesting there is not a single objection to violence in any of the 10! Sadly it has long been the case that sex is considered awful for kids to be...
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Edgar Owen
edgarowen
Jun 1, 2008 2:08 pm
Artemis, Of course you are right. Arranged marriages are certainly the best strategy in terms of the long term success of the extended family, and often the...
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Edgar Owen
edgarowen
Jun 1, 2008 2:08 pm
Francine, I think you've got that wrong. It is surface area relative to volume which is important in terms of temperature regulation. Heat generation is...
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Edgar Owen
edgarowen
Jun 1, 2008 2:14 pm
Donald and Jeremy, Good points Donald. For example it is often stated that Newton's mysterious gravitational 'action at a distance' was somehow 'explained' by...
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Robert Karl Stonjek
r_karl_s
Jun 1, 2008 2:14 pm
EDgar, Good points Donald. For example it is often stated that Newton's mysterious gravitational 'action at a distance' was somehow 'explained' by Einstein's...
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vquest95@...
vquest95
Jun 1, 2008 2:14 pm
The next phase in the evolution of humanity is a human-computer symbiosis. - David L. Alexander, 1982 I still believe it, although I had not expected it to...
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vquest95@...
vquest95
Jun 1, 2008 2:15 pm
In regards to Robert's comments: It may be an imperfect document, but the important things are: 1. It is the beginning of a free discussion of what should be...
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vquest95@...
vquest95
Jun 1, 2008 2:15 pm
What do you expect? The most complicated machine in the world doesn't come with a user manual! Dave Alexander, Mechanical Engineer In a message dated...
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steve moxon
spmox
Jun 1, 2008 2:16 pm
Wade is quite wrong here. 'PC' is most certainly not a term that has emerged or been hijacked for use as a derogation. It is clearly a political philosophy of...
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Edgar Owen
edgarowen
Jun 2, 2008 12:55 am
Dave, I've been supplying a very good user manual on this group, but no one seems to be paying attention. ... Edgar ... Dave, I've been supplying a very good...
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Donald W. Zimmerman
zimmerma2000
Jun 2, 2008 12:59 am
... No, what I am saying is that "understanding" is a false hope and should not be a guiding principle in the case of either quantum theory and relativity. We...
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roy freedle
freedle1
Jun 2, 2008 1:00 am
Op-Ed Contributor Put a Little Science in Your Life writePost(); new_york_times:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01greene.html By BRIAN GREENE ...
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Wade Allsopp
wadeall
Jun 2, 2008 1:01 am
... *Wade *I would agree with you that trying to combat racism, sexism and discrimination against gays, people of other religions, people from non elite social...
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Donald W. Zimmerman
zimmerma2000
Jun 2, 2008 1:02 am
... I agree completely, with the provision that I would not expect the merging of the disparate theories to eliminate all mysteries. However, a remarkable...
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Loisenman@...
Jun 2, 2008 2:04 am
Hi, A few weeks ago there was a post that mentioned some recent work supporting David Bohm's hidden variable theory. I think it mentioned someone at ...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:54 am
Abhay Ashtekar, Victor Taveras, Madhavan Varadarajan, 2008. Information is not lost in the evaporation of 2D black holes. Physical Review Letters...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:54 am
Enrique Caviedes-Vidal, W.H. Karasov, J.G. Chediack, Veronica Fasulo, A.P. Cruz-Neto, Lye Otani, 2008. Paraceullar absorption: a bat breaks the mammal...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:54 am
Toshiyuki Namba, Kumi Tanabe, Naomi Maeda, 2008. Omnivory and stability of food webs. Ecological Complexity 5(2):73-85. ABSTRACT. The role and prevalence of...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:55 am
Jin-You Mo, Chuo-Lin Huang, Zhao Zhongru, Wang Wei, Xing Xu, 2008. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Guangxi, China....
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:55 am
Karen Moreno, Stephen Wroe, Philip Clausen, Colin McHenry, D.C. D'Amore, Emily J. Rayfield, Eleanor Cunningham, 2008. Cranial performance in the Komodo dragon...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:56 am
Louis-Felix Bersier & Patrik Kehrli, 2008. The signature of phylogenetic constraints on food-web structure. Ecological Complexity 5(2):132-139. ABSTRACT....
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:56 am
Margaret I. Hall, 2008. The anatommical relationships between the avian eye, orbit, and sclerotic ring: implications for inferring activity patterns in extinct...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:57 am
The elegant paper by Mark Witton & Darren Naish on azhdarchid pterosaur skull morphology effectively ameliorates the idea that pterosaurs were skim-feeders (an...
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Stephan Pickering
r_karl_s
Jun 2, 2008 7:57 am
Ke-Qin Gao & D.T. Kspeka, 2008. Osteology and taxonomic revision of Hyphalosaurus (Diapsida: Choristodera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Liaonining, China....
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Zaphod Beeblebrox
prxqxgl
Jun 2, 2008 7:58 am
Unlike sitting in a window for 20 yrs watching johns getting clipped including 2-3 innocents murdered without calling the police or testifying in court to...
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Robert Lindsay
globetrotter348
Jun 2, 2008 11:24 am
Here <http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2008/05/race-gender-and-masculinityfe\ mininity.html> . This post posits that males prefer a more feminine partner and...
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bowmanthebard
Jun 2, 2008 11:25 am
... I think this is perhaps the most anti-scientific, mysticism-embracing remark I have ever read. As a first pass, we might define "understanding" as the...
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vquest95@...
vquest95
Jun 2, 2008 11:25 am
We used Dr. Spock. Plus when the kids got older, and began to question some of my decisions on why they should and shouldn't do some things, I told them ...
