29 MAR 2013 by ideonexus
Belief VS Evidence
Our own view of what is and is not
possible in reality affects how we
perceive identical evidence. But that view
shifts with time, and thus, evidence that
might at one point seem meaningless can
come to hold a great deal of meaning.
Think of how many ideas seemed
outlandish when first put forward, seemed
so impossible that they couldn’t be true:
the earth being round; the earth going
around the sun; the universe being made
up almost entirely of something that we
can’t see, dark matter and ene... 1 
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notesMany great minds have been taken in by supernatural ideas.
19 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
Why Cell Phone Radiation Does Not Cause Cancer
Physics explains why no links were found. The microwaves used in cell phone transmissions do not have enough energy to break the chemical bonds of DNA, which is how cell mutations occur and cause cancer. How do we know this? Light and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, including microwaves, radio waves, infrared waves, and ultraviolet light waves, are all forms of radiation. A single unit of radiation is called a photon. A photon can be thought of either as a particle or as a wave. ... 1 notes
notesAn explanation of radiation, it's different wavelengths, and why microwave radiation cannot damage a cell because it cannot break molecular bonds.
07 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
History of Science and Religion
Some people want to put warning stickers on biology textbooks, saying that the theory of evolution is just one of many theories, take it or leave it. Now, religion long predates science; it'll be here forever. That's not the issue. The problem comes when religion enters the science classroom. There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling preachers what to teach. Scientists don't picket churches. By and arge—though it may not look this way today—science and r... 1 notes
notesHow the Middle East was the center of scientific progress until religious fever took over it, the same is seen in Jewish and Christian cultures.
28 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
Truth Survives
There is no god, and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing was passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it out again. Without hype, Lot’s salt-heap ho would never be thought of again. Without science, the Earth still goes around the sun and someday so... 1 notes
notesScience can be lost and rediscovered exactly as we left it. Religion, if lost, will never be found the same way again.
31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Stephen Chu's Pendulum High School Experiment
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a 'precision' measurement of gravity. The years of experience building things taught me skills that were directly applicable to the construction of the pendulum. Twenty-five years later, I was to develop a refined version of this measurement using laser-cooled atoms in an atomic fountain interferometer.Folksonomies: experiment science fair
Folksonomies: experiment science fair
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notesHe used the pendulum to make a precise measurement of gravity, and the process would eventually inform his Nobel Prize winning work.
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Population Must Increase Education to Stay Ahead of T...
...the relative demand for skilled labor is closely correlated with advances in technology, particularly digital technologies. Hence, the moniker “skill-biased technical change,” or SBTC. There are two distinct components to recent SBTC. Technologies like robotics, numerically controlled machines, computerized inventory control, and automatic transcription have been substituting for routine tasks, displacing those workers. Meanwhile other technologies like data visualization, analytics, high-...
1 As people are automated out of jobs, society must increase their educations in order to keep them on top of the machines.
01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
We Need a Shared Naturalist Religion
We have desperately to find our
way back to human values. I would even say to religion. There is nothing
supernatural, in my mind. Nature is my religion, and it's enough for me… What I
mean is: We need some widely shared view of the place of Man in the Universe. 1 notes
notesNobel Prize winner argues that we need a shared, naturalistic view of our place in the Universe.
17 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Discovery of the First Pulsar
In 1967, British scientists found a much nearer intense radio source turning on and off with astonishing precision, its period constant to ten or more significant figures. What was it? Their first thought was that it was a message intended for us, or maybe an interstellar navigation and timing beacon for spacecraft that ply the space between the stars. They even gave it, among themselves at Cambridge University, the wry designation LGM-1 - LGM standing for Little Green Men.
However, they wer... 1 notes
notesDesignated LGM-1 for "Little Green Men" because it gave off a repeating radio signal.
