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Uhg, for the last time, we aren't trying to come up with EXCUSES for this guy, we are trying to UNDERSTAND the motivation behind his actions, which could come from a variety of sources. Is this too hard to grasp? No one here is trying to prove that the guy is totally innocent, and was somehow...

It just occurred to me that cumulative advantage is essentially also how google works. The more pages link to a given page, the higher up on google search results that page will appear, meaning it will be taken as the definitive page on the given topic, so more pages will link to it, Basically...

While agree this kind of behaviour needs to be condemned as strongly as possible (glorifying these bastards is certainly not helping), I do feel that sometimes the "showing insufficient remorse/glorifying the perpetrator" argument can often be used too easily to try and shut down explanations...

Okay so I'm basically just reposting links from the ilm dixon thread now, but this site seems to be the answer to all your RA Podcast prayers.

there you go totally agree. i've been loving this mix all week.

Dear Everyone, Woebot is trying to push peoples' buttons and be contrarian, and has been quite successful in doing so. Yours, The obvious police.

just got sent this link of a 22 month old kid playing wii tennis. while it certainly doesn't do anything to dissuade people who think the wii is just for little kids, the fact that a kid that young can actually be pretty good at a video game is really quite impressive. I mean, the kid still...

I think I agree with Zhao that clicks n cuts at it height was definitely a bit overrated. I think I'm a much bigger fan of the stuff that came before and after, so the basic channel/chain reaction stuff, all the mike inc side projects (Studio 1 is great!), brinkman, etc...then it went all...

For whatever reason, I've been listening to the todd-mixed, 90% todd-content second cd of this at least once a day for the last week. And let me tell you, it is a joy to listen to.

sorry in advance for the rambling post, can't get my thoughts straight... So I went and saw this last night at the IMAX. stoned. in the first row. I think this is probably the only proper way to see this movie, where everything is SO FUCKING HUGE AND LOUD that your only choice is to laugh at...

Basically, every step you move away from the actual physical measurement of some property of the world, the more you add in cultural biases, until by the time you get to scientific knowledge as viewed by the general populace, they are absolutely inextricably intertwined. [okay! i'll stop now...]

I am by no means saying that the scientific method is invalid, and that all results obtain from it are useless. I fully agree that scientific research is the best method we've found of discovering facts about the universe in as objective a way as posible. I believe in thermodynamics, quantum...

But then these areas gain momentum, become dominant, become orthodoxy and results from other areas that might have challenged them are ignored or never even found because no one is looking. Sure, in some end-time, total knowledge, scenario when all scientific results have been found and...

Trying not to get dragged in....failing... Gender affects scientific results on AT LEAST two levels. 1, At the high level, a department that has a majority female faculty will probably have different interests and pursue different general areas within their field as compared to a majority...

I'd just like to say on the behalf of people with a "science" background around the world, that not all of us are so utterly dismissive of postmodernism as well as other strains of modern critical theory. Though I'm probably not that much more well informed on the theory front as Mr. Tea...

This would be an opportune time to point out a google maps hack a friend of mine did a while back that overlays the 2000 US census bureau data over the google map for the US. Allowing you to do exactly as above, at least for white, black, asian and latino. Check it out. It's a touch slow, and...

crap, this thread is hard to keep up with. finally at home now, so can do this properly. I'll try and hit as many of the points as I can, but I'm sure I'll miss something. On Hersh: I've got to say Oliver, I wasn't very impressed with the supposed dismantling of Hersh's article in that blog...

I'm saying that this is how it is being portrayed by those in the islamic world who wish to take advantage of these things for their own propaganda, and that the US continues to do exactly what their caricature of them would be expected to do (which kinda doesn't make it a caricature I don't...

Ahem. How is any bombing of Iran not going to be seen as a continuation of the US's aggression against muslim countries? How is it not going to feed right back in to the rhetoric that is pushing so many muslim groups in a more and more radical, anti-US direction? And yeah, there might be low...