Tue 8 May, 2007 06:55 am - Fresco - "The world is flat" may have been a popular group concensus,
and even a useful concept,
but then we acted on the world some more, and discovered a few more observations about... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 02:24 am - Too bad, so sad.
But starting a Civil War in Iraq certainly does have it's priorities.
Iraqi insurgency is just plain more important than "rescue and recovery".
The sacrifices we... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 02:07 am - Wow. DNA genomic research is decoding a huge wealth of knowledge
just sitting there for us to read. Our entire history, every footprint we've left in our evolution
can be identified and... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 01:37 am - The "best intelligence"
is predicated upon first choosing what you want to prove.
Only then is it possible to judge "best" from "worst", to pick and choose... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 01:30 am - The curvature of space-time does not exist in objective reality. Space-time is a human concept, one particular coordinate system that we enjoy doing our math with.
If you use a coordinate... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 01:08 am - We conceptualize and infer things directly from our perceptions.
It sounds like the brain is hard-wired to do this directly and quickly,
just as you might expect an evolutionary process to wire a... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 12:32 am - Fatal last words: "It seems to me ..."
Now I'm just rubber-necking to see what happens. :o
(The water creature does not need to perceive, conceive, or infer anything.... (view)
Tue 8 May, 2007 12:05 am - Sweden has a small number of people, but they are very generous.
The USA has a large number of people, who donate just a little each.
But because there are so MANY stingy people in the US,... (view)
