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in some futures do make computers to then simulate all phenomenally possible states of minds in ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 21 2013 - 9:05am

against three-person IVF, it is just the latest salvo in his culture war. He is against all IVF and has ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2018 - 11:13pm

'whitewash'. If a calender is printed with all the Sundays missing, almost anybody could figure out to fill in ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 5 2010 - 5:10pm

number of dimensions in spacetime. The idea, again, is that all of the above (and a few others) could ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Nov 5 2013 - 7:30am

not a rational argument at all, but the infamous sensus divinitatis of Calvinistic memory, i.e. the ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 10 2014 - 6:31am

granularities, all these and more were thoroughly researched. The greatest leap in accuracy came from the ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 18 2010 - 9:28pm

being that nature does not behave capriciously. If it did, all bets would be off and we wouldn’t even ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jul 31 2013 - 6:48pm

qualia could be inverted with no physical change at all with respect to the way things are at the ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Dec 7 2009 - 11:07pm

they all rely upon the interconnect system of finance. These legally constituted persons did not carry ...

Article - Ed Chen - Jan 6 2011 - 8:25am

the rules here can be labelled as ‘bizarre’. All of us know that a moving atom can be anywhere and ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Oct 2 2009 - 11:30am

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”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert · 17 hours ago
John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 2 days ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 2 days ago

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