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I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They’re ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story, this founding myth of ours, in which the first humans are doomed and cursed eternally for asking a question, for partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. It’s puzzling that Eden is synonymous with paradise when, if you think about it at all, it’s more like a maximum-security prison with twenty-four hour surveillance. It’s a horrible place. Adam and Eve have no childhood. They awaken full-grown. What is a human being without a childhood? Our long childhood is a critical feature of our species. It differentiates us, to a degree, from most other species. We take a longer time to mature. We depend upon these formative years and the social fabric to learn many of the things we need to know.
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Ok, so I was talked into doing an art show this Friday and this is my main piece. Later on today, I'm going to do one of Richard Feynman. How do you lot like this one? Any changes necessary? Oh, and this is Isaac Asimov by the way.
My boss walked into my fart this morning and almost choked. It was a magical moment.

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The sword of science is double-edged. Its awesome power forces on all of us, including politicians, a new responsibility - more attention to the long-term consequences of technology, a global and transgenerational perspective, an incentive to avoid easy appeals to nationalism and chauvinism. Mistakes are becoming too expensive.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark p. 16 (via probablyasocialecologist)
If you’re looking for a whole new perspective on the value of mathematics, Stanford University’s Keith Devlin shall provide. With his wonderfully lilting English (Yorkshire?) accent and as sharp of a mind as you can imagine, he compares mathematical equations to sonnets and says that what most of us learn in school doesn’t begin to convey what mathematics is. That technology may free more of us to discover the wonder of mathematical thinking — as a reflection of the inner world of our minds.
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Why Astrology is Bullshit and Astronomy is Awesome
Carl Sagan lays down the law and puts astrology to bed for good. +1 for science.
Since our children remain happy, energetic, and curious, we don’t need to teach ‘subjects’ at all. We teach only the techniques of learning and thinking. As for geography, literature, the sciences - we give our children opportunity and guidance, and they learn them for themselves. In that way we dispense with half the teachers required under the old system, and the education is incomparably better. Our children aren’t neglected, but they’re seldom, if ever, taught anything.
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“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." | Betrand Russell
State of emergency, water ban issued in West Virginia over chemical leak
West Virginia governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced a state of emergency in five counties on Thursday, following a chemical spill into the Elk River, prompting a water ban that is reported to impact 100,000 customers.
Local residents are urged not to drink, bathe, or cook with the water from their taps. Water use has only been permitted for flushing or fire emergencies.
West Virginia American Water customers in Boone, Lincoln, Kanawha, Jackson and Putnam counties are included in the state of emergency, according to WSAZ.
According to reports, the leak of 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, a chemical used in the froth flotation process during coal washing, came from a tank at Freedom Industries in Charleston.
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"My beef with religion is almost more of a scientific one. It’s more that this is an educational nonsense, that children should be brought up with what is, well, a falsehood or something that someone certainly has no reason to think that it’s true, when there’s so much that we do know that is true. And I think it’s a sin to deprive children of a proper education and that really is what religion is doing.
When you think that more than 40% of the American people [according to Gallop] believes that the world is only 6,000 years old. There is something badly wrong about an education system that does that. There is a paradox here, which is the United States is without the leading scientific nation in the world. I can’t help thinking how much more leading you’d be if you didn’t have that 40%…and there’s no doubt the corrupting influence of education that has produced the 40% is religion, that’s absolutely certain.”
…it’s my interest in education and in my passion for the beauty of the scientific view of the world. Not only is it beautiful itself but also: the fact that we are…we’ve evolved - by an understandable process - we’ve evolved to the point where we can understand that process itself, I mean, isn’t that a wonderful thought? That here we are with inside our heads: a brain, which has evolved by the process of evolution by natural selection and it’s evolved so far that it can actually understand that process and actually know where it comes from.
(quoting from 'The Selfish Gene'): Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. Life had existed on this planet for more than 3,000 million years before the truth finally dawned on one individual; his name was Charles Darwin. I do think that’s a wonderful thought.
…I do think it is a sin to deliberately deprive children of that wonder.”
Professor Richard Dawkins, in a conversation with Michael Shermer at CalTech, "The Skeptics Society Presents: Richard Dawkins: An Appetite for Wonder—The Making of a Scientist: In Conversation with Michael Shermer"; on another related note: religious fundamentalism/creationism is child abuse.