What agenda is behind the fact that the speed of light is 3x10^8 meters per second?A metaphor: nobody ever goes to listen to musicians play scales. A well-played scale, unlike a performance, has no emotional content. Does this mean a music class may not study scales? A science class is not a laborat...

Izdaari: I do not favor such a "wall of separation." Jeremy: Acknowledged... you are the enemy. Interesting. Izdaari: No, I'm the opposition. There's a difference. Izdaari:Quote:I just believe in interpreting the Constitution very strictly, according to the actual language of the text firs...

I take an antidepressent, Zoloft (sertraline HCL), but not for depression. I was diagnosed with "impulse control disorder" which interstingly enough did not go away when the pundits of DSM-IV decided it's not a condition anymore. Basically what it does for me is give me a second or two lee...

Behaviorism studies, among other things, reinforcement scehdules. A counter intuitive finding was that random rienforcement is more powerful at molding behaviour than consistent reinforcement. That is, a pigeon (human or avian) doing a certain action who is rewarded every time soon loses interest; b...

WwdimmittQuote: I actually worry more about clean, potable water, and then after that soil erosion and depletion.If it's myopia, you share it with E.O. Wilson, one of the foremost scientific defenders of the environment. All over the world, even where we have leveled off population, we continue to d...

Jacoby suggests this soliloquy from Shakespeare's King Lear "is the essence of the secularist and humanist faith... [which] must be offered ... as a robust creed worthy of the world's first secular government" Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless ...

Izdaari Quote:. . . they [republicans are] less bad than the alternative and give me enough to work with.Jacoby sums up my perception of contemporary republicans in Chapter 11: "Kennedy was fortunate to have been a candidate for the presidency forty-four years ago instead of today, when his for...

Dogs have pheremone producing glands around their anus, that marks their feces. Sniffing a dog's behind tells another dog if this is the one who was "there" (where she previously sniffed dogshit) or, allows her to recognize the dog from it's shit later.Most dog owners become aware of these...

I haven't heard Yoakum on DNA, but overall I think that getting people thinking about it is good. I'd guess half of Dwight's usual audience has never heard of DNA. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984

ah, so sorry sir. Pity we outlive our pets. If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything. Daniel Dennett, 1984