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Category: Science

What Are They Thinking?

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 23, 2017 Posted in Politics, Science No Comments

I often check Fox News online to get the conservative slant on news. Poor as it might be, the comments are ten times worse. Here are some from their March for Science reporting. These people are a joke. The problem …

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Our beliefs resist new facts

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 23, 2015 Posted in Politics, Science, Society No Comments Tagged with Beliefs, confirmation bias

Mother Jones has a really interesting article on how our beliefs block new information: Pre-existing beliefs, far more than new facts, skew our thoughts. Feelings arise before conscious thoughts and color them. Confirmation bias gives more weight to facts that …

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Ten Years!

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 3, 2015 Posted in Humor, Science No Comments

Today is the 10th anniversary of this blog, so I’ll celebrate with a bunch of random items. Interesting post suggesting that the creation of life can be explained in thermodynamic terms. A great series of old John Cleese commercials for Compaq. Can …

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Sharp knives

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 23, 2014 Posted in Science No Comments Tagged with knife, knives

In my woodworking days I learned how to sharpen knives on a stone, so when invited to Thanksgiving or Christmas, I would offer to sharpen the host’s knives. The offer was always well received, but such a high proportion of …

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The limits of Science

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 3, 2014 Posted in Science 4 Comments Tagged with Mathematics

Let us consider what the domain of science covers. There is a hierarchy in science arranged like a tree: physics, chemistry, geology, biochemistry, biology. Each one is constrained by the rules of its parent, yet at the same time exhibits …

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