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No Alternative Theory Exists Leaves us with No Alternatives and a Host of UnExplainables
I read this piece (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2013/may/04/no-alternative-bayes-penalties-philosophy-thatcher-merkel) with some trepidation. When I get to the description of Bayesian statistics which says: “Bayesian statistics owes its name to Reverend Thomas Bayes (c 1701-1761) and considers trust, or the degree of belief, as probability. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayesian statistics, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, Quantum Mechanics
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Boffins Bring Beans to Bed Bug Battle
There’s hope for all those bed-bug-ridden homes and hotels and it’s in … the garden. Your mom may not have known this, even your grandmother might not but your great grandma might have heard of this. A natural barrier to … Continue reading
Do the new Planck results support the Big Bang theory or not?
I was born in the 50′s and the science that we were taught in school tended to promote the Steady State model of the universe. I eventually came to possess a copy of George Gamow’s ’1,2,3 … Infinity’ and, even … Continue reading
Novel Material generates electricity from moisture differential
In this article in New Scientist they report: ‘Electricity has been squeezed from a damp surface for the first time, thanks to a polymer film that curls up and moves – a bit like an artificial muscle – when exposed … Continue reading
Asteroid Mining
From today’s news: Google cofounder Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with director James Cameron, have founded a new company: Planetary Resources Inc. It’s mission: mine asteroids, “add trillions of dollars to the global GDP” and “help ensure humanity’s prosperity.” Read … Continue reading
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Tagged asteroid, director james cameron, global gdp, larry page and sergey brin, mining
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Insects have ‘personalities’ too, research on novelty-seeking honey bees indicates
A long time ago I learned that superstition can be found in pigeons … now we have evidence of ‘personality traits’ in bees – insects. How many of the other so-called ‘human qualities’ have we inherited via our genetic backgrounds … Continue reading
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Scientists claim brain memory code cracked
Wow – Memory is Tubular! Scientists claim brain memory code cracked.
New revolutionary material can be worked like glass
New revolutionary material can be worked like glass. I like this. But I envision a future where cars and appliances have weird textural features where someone took a heat gun and ‘fixed’ a crack or other break
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‘re-programmable cells’ and new life forms
Easily ‘re-programmable cells’ could be key in creation of new life forms. A Cell OS … wow! Hopefully it works without too many bugs. Then again … perfect ‘creations’ would tend to make it difficult for the ‘users’ of this … Continue reading
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XRAY CAT Scanning on a micorscopic scale
“CT allowed us to digitally dissect the mite off the spider in order to reveal the important features on the underside of the mite required for identification,” – that’s XRAY CAT Scanning he’s talking about and the mite (and spider) … Continue reading
