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This is really dredging my memory, but.. as I remember, Popper tries to argue that falsification is like deduction. But I don't see why saying "a theory has failed x tests, so it should not be our best guess" is any different from saying a theory has passed x tests, so it should be our best...

Where can I find good stuff on early UK post-rock, particularly Disco Inferno...? I assume Simon has written about it..?

Zhao, I know fuck all about post-structuralism but I've studied as both a scientist and a historian/philosopher of science, and I'm mainly with you. So I'll have a crack at some of this stuff! Science is two things - a methodology and a philosophy. The philosophical portion is of course what...

I think the best you can do is use a wildcard - dub* etc, but obviously that's going to bring up a lot of other stuff too.

I cannot find. Care to link me?

"I don't mind if you forget me" etched into whitewashed window of disused shop in at the bottom of Lower Clapton Road. --------------------------------------- Girl on the tube (of Middle Eastern extraction) wearing an Islamic head scarf, coupled with goth make up, loads of very pale foundation...

I wish it was Morrissey.

Cymande was the first thing that popped into my mind too... although as matt b says, they're certainly not forgotten by hip-hop/funk heads. Well worth checking out though.

Fair enough.. but that is certainly not Kuhn's view. Scientific theories don't just stand on how well they explain empirical data - it's in part due to their ability to answer meta-questions demanded on what science is for (e.g. Kuhn's example of the different demands on science in Newton and...

Actually, some recent research has shown plants themselves (along with animals) produce a lot of "greenhouse" emissions - so simply re-foresting may not make things any better... I will dig up the ref.

As did Einstein, for i guess ideolgical convictions ("God does not play dice"). Because as ideas from science penetrate into society, they produce changes in how people perceive fundamental things - e.g. the metaphysical aspects of quantum mechanics, the role of the observer. I guess in...

Don't have time to read all this thread now - but wanted to comment on this. That seems like totally wrong reading of Kuhn to me (in fact it sounds if anything more like Popper) - the whole point is that there is no fixed corpus of scientific knowledge, and part of what instigates changes in...

Lot of driving today, so got through plenty of stuff: Autechre - LP 5 The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh (v MBV influnced contempory band) Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music (really like this) Winter Warmers 07 - compilation by a...

Is that "pylonesque" - I like that record... Today I listened to: Slint - Spiderland Massonix - Subtracks Neil Young - Harvest Talk Talk - Laughing Stock

Anyone heard the Plastician & Skream remix of "Someway through this" by The Black Ghosts? I hear it got a rewind at FWD last week.. (must confess I am tangentially involved with this but I just wondered if anyone had any opinions if they'd heard it yet?)

There's this thread over in Misc on Second Life, not that you can tell from the title... http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=4775

I think I went to something like this a few years back on the South Bank in London - huge metal pipe with a bass cone attached at one end, which produced loads of infrasound. The audience were all given questionaires to report any changes in mood etc during the experience... Isn't there also...

It's still used for very young children, AFAIK. Too young to complain about the weird dreams... and is certainly used outside of the UK quite a bit.

Ketamine is not just an anaesthetic for animals. It's a widely used in children, and as a battlefield anaesthetic. It's perhaps the safest known in man, as it has no respiratory depressent effect until extremely high levels - it's practically impossible to overdose on ketamine alone. Damages...

Ok sorry - no real sex involved, just "cybersex", within the game. People were paying game money i think (but as previously mentioned, game money has real value and can be converted into real money). I've just found the interview with the alleged child prostitute here - it's fairly long...