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Let's talk about Science!

I like bunsen burners.
I like mixing things together that ignite and/or explode.
I like that pic, Niv. He should be wearing a BLT t-shirt. He's me! (even though I don't own a BLT t-shirt)
I don't like dissecting animals, amphibians, nor any "once living" creature.
I like to experiment. Mostly with recipes and sexual positions. .....for science, of course.
I'm not good at sciencey math, other than the basics. I don't like long mind numbing equations. They make me get a backache and roll around on the floor saying WHY?!..........wHy?!!! I need a juice box!!!

Living in the scientific age, we need citizens who know enough about science to make intelligent decisions about what they do.

Science is fun!
-bill

I find that many people (enthusiastic about as well critical of) science don't understand what science does and doesn't do. It makes most conversations about science fairly tedious.
What else did you want to talk about?

HeuristicsInc wrote:Living in the scientific age, we need citizens who know enough about science to make intelligent decisions about what they do.

Science is fun!
-bill

I think the "Scientific Age" ended about 20 years ago. It is now the "Information Age", where we have citizens who don't know enough about science who have the means to widely disseminate misinformation in order to avoid intelligent decisions about what we do.

Shame. Science was fun.

Science is a danger to us all. When a mad scientist hatches a plan or tries to take over the world people can be killed. When a mad informationist tries anything he just gets called a handsome fellow in his youtube comments. Misinformation saves lives.

It is all of these scientists that come here in boats to steal away News Limited's freedom to phone hack that frighten me. I don't like it. But I do think that Andrew Bolt is a handsome fellow. And that Piers Akerman is just cute as a button!

Anyone here willing to live and die on Mars?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013 ... ml?cmp=rss

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... y.20523800

Niveous wrote:Anyone here willing to live and die on Mars?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013 ... ml?cmp=rss

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... y.20523800

What's with all these Bas guys wanting to go to space these days? Lance Bass, Bas Lans drop. It's the Illuminati!

Caravan Ray wrote:

HeuristicsInc wrote:Living in the scientific age, we need citizens who know enough about science to make intelligent decisions about what they do.

Science is fun!
-bill

I think the "Scientific Age" ended about 20 years ago. It is now the "Information Age", where we have citizens who don't know enough about science who have the means to widely disseminate misinformation in order to avoid intelligent decisions about what we do.

Shame. Science was fun.

Hmm, yeah, that movie I sampled did come from the Fifties. It is now supplanted.
-bill

I've been taking a pretty intense beekeeping course all winter and will have a hive in a few weeks under my control. Bees are insanely awesome creatures and the science of bee culture and democracy is proving insanely crazy.

That's awesome, Roy. Have you heard about the study on Bee Venom and HIV?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/0 ... 43743.html

Niveous wrote:That's awesome, Roy. Have you heard about the study on Bee Venom and HIV?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/0 ... 43743.html

No, hadn't seen that. Thanks! It's pretty fascinating how honey bees work. The whole hive is the organism. If you're up for a great read, Honey Bee Democracy is a really great study about how hives create/control queens, swarm, find new homes and food sources.

Meet Ben Krasnow, a legitimate scientist who likes to take his work home with him.

He likes to play with augmenting his eyes, sending electrical impulses into his brain, building spot-welding equipment using gigantic capacitors, and playing with liquid carbon dioxide (which, as it turns out, is acrylic-soluble).

Oh, and don't miss his culinary experiments.

I'm lousy at science. Concept and abstracts, sure. The 'artsy' side of science. But not numbers and all that. Anyway, here is something that might be of interest. http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/0 ... =obnetwork

And Roymond, the beehive thing is way too cool. Love it!

The Scharnhorst Effect
http://io9.com/the-scharnhorst-effect-c ... -458766433

Video Games help the Blind:
http://io9.com/video-games-help-the-bli ... -460865211

here's your fight
http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=morescience

I know because I went to the live event in New York

The lightest man made substance on Earth
http://io9.com/this-is-a-picture-of-the ... -461681135

Niveous wrote:The lightest man made substance on Earth
http://io9.com/this-is-a-picture-of-the ... -461681135

One-seventh the density of air? .....I'm listening.

I love listening to Dr DeGrasse.

"when was the last time you stopped to talk to a worm?"

What you need more of is science? You got it.

Bees can reason!
http://io9.com/bees-are-actually-capabl ... -468868141

The space express route:
http://news.yahoo.com/russian-american- ... 26754.html

They've found Hell:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/0 ... 94297.html