Month: October 2013
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Black holes are the same. Black holes are different.
Black hole hair: Each black hole seems like the others. And yet even the most unique and uniform things in the cosmos seem to have some unique characteristics that make them individual – just like humans. (1) Everything is unique. And everything is the same.
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The world as they knew it…
The world as they knew it (1). The world changes as our knowledge change. And yet it remains the same…. How can we see without seeing?
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US shutdown. Their finest hour.
US government shutdown, because congress has failed to pass a spending bill. (1) What makes US great are its great failures. Failures she is not ashamed to show to the whole world.
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Seeing? No. Just thinking. Think about it.
Is seeing a planet with your own eyes the same as seeing it via scientific analysis? (1, 2) It is an uncomfortable truth, but we must always remember that we do not actually see. We just… think. And no experience of importance is experienced via (sensory) data. Look at these diagrams again. Their silence is […]
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Science Education. Is it required?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has never been in the business of supporting pre-college science education and promoting health literacy to the public, says NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak. And now it’s official NIH policy, too. (1) It seems bad to not have a leading research institute help in education. But what should […]
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