General science thread
June 12th, 2018 at 3:25:28 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | One eleven here @ 3:30 The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
June 12th, 2018 at 4:08:49 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Valley of the Sun not Valley of the Shade. |
June 12th, 2018 at 7:03:46 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
No I don't question the custom, I just can't believe that left handed people couldn't just follow the norm. It's not that difficult to scoop food out of a bowl without using your dominant hand. |
June 24th, 2018 at 3:04:31 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | I get a kick out of this video. 20 million views, 4000 comments. It's entertaining reading the comments on how people think this works. The Vatican would have banned this 300 years ago and jailed the inventor. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
September 22nd, 2018 at 4:44:49 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/centuries-old-shipwreck-found-in-portugal/ar-AAAufJr?ocid=spartanntp It would be cool to have a historical google earth where discoveries are documented at time and place they are expected to have happeed as you move the timeline. For instance this sinking would show up between 1575 and 1625 on the map. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
October 5th, 2018 at 4:23:39 AM permalink | |
odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5055 | Here's a good quote, "The Three Stages of Scientific Discovery"
I'm really realizing this is really true after reading two books recently, Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Sacks is a really good, interesting science historian, especially on chemistry and physics, while Bryson, admitting to knowing zip going in, wrote a great book, broader in scope, on the subject too. Both books confirm the above. Bryson in particular likes to skewer the scientists who resisted the new discoveries and theories. Generally, these are academics and such who get hidebound with their own views, and usually find the new things to be a threat to their own standing. So what fields were prone to this? Absolutely every one of them. Those resisting the new ideas that later become consensus wind up looking incredibly bad. Some things are amazing, like German scientists not accepting Dalton's Atomic Theory for quite some time after consensus otherwise formed; the Plate Tectonics science only finally being accepted in the 1960s [geology was barely scientific at all for about forever] ; astronomers sometimes had access to great telescopes but seem otherwise unscientifically inclined to us today ... Percival Lovell and his canals on Mars, for example. I could go on. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
October 5th, 2018 at 5:07:50 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
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October 5th, 2018 at 5:27:26 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | We always learn a censored history. It took decades for the Royal Navy to issue lime juice infused rum to prevent scurvy. It took years to convince doctors to wash their hands or change bed linens in hospitals more often than once a week. Pasteur was not trying to improve the shelf life of milk, he was trying to preserve beer. |
October 5th, 2018 at 11:42:15 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
My fave of this is the doctor in the 19th century discovered patients had a better recovery rate if the doctor simply washed his hands between surgeries. Hospital docs all but lynched the guy, said he was insane. He gradually proved it, took decades. Never underestimate the willingness of people to remain ignorant and stuck in their ways. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
March 28th, 2019 at 12:33:29 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | Rare genetic mutation accounts for anxiety and pain free life
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/at-71-shes-never-felt-pain-or-anxiety-now-scientists-know-why/ar-BBVlpnB?ocid=spartanntp You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |