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... see it as a profound social duty. They exhibit dogmatic conformity to group social norms, they see an opportunity for masculine ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 8 2014 - 8:00pm - 0 attachments

... leaves little doubt on the nature of the particle and its conformity to the characteristics expected for the Standard Model Higgs, there ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 6 2014 - 10:05pm - 0 attachments

Stephanie Seneff (a computer scientist at MIT),  and Anthony Samsel (a retired consultant), have recently been attempting to link the use of the herbicide glyphosate to a long list of modern maladies.  Their latest such attempt  to i ...

Article - Steve Savage - Mar 31 2014 - 9:43pm - 0 attachments

... in substantially the same manner as the white, i.e. in conformity with the external deformed shape of the boiled egg. Thus, there can ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Nov 21 2013 - 10:55am - 0 attachments

A few days ago I posted the results of a poll ran on 50 or so participants to a workshop on the Higgs boson in Madrid. The poll consisted of six questions on the expectations one had on the possibility of new discoveries by present-day accelerator ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Sep 30 2013 - 3:33am - 0 attachments

... the word ‘truth,’ in the strict sense, denotes the conformity of thought with its object.” But what, exactly, is the CToT? ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 7 2013 - 6:46pm - 0 attachments

There is no question that Darwin's tremendous insight into the mechanisms by which evolution occurred was one of the singularly most significant events in biology.  Similarly with the discovery of DNA and genetics, the processes by which organisms we ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Apr 22 2013 - 7:31am - 0 attachments

Fusion is the super-clean energy we would be thinking about if government-controlled energy science were about the best long-term solutions and not political pet projects - alas, its share of the $72 billion spent on alternate energy the last three years ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 15 2012 - 5:54pm - 0 attachments

... I suppose is intended to be a defiant statement of non-conformity with society seems to me to be ... little more than conformity with a subculture rather than true individualism.  "Fuck Your ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 28 2009 - 12:36pm - 0 attachments

I recently re-read a classic piece by J.L. Mackie (April 1955), entitled “Evil and Omnipotence,” a stupendous philosophical essay about why theologians like Richard Swinburne are forced by their belief in an omnipotent, omnibenevelont and omnipowerful g ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Nov 24 2009 - 5:45pm - 0 attachments