Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
12-01-2007, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 3,567
Re: The Best Poster in SMP
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Then I (in my mind) promoted Phil as my favourite, mainly due to work done in geo-political threads, where I am pretty sure he is SMP god. Prove me wrong.
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I'm in...
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review
11-27-2007, 05:13 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 5,091
Re: I [censored] up
I'm really sorry for your loss.
I'm a crazy cat person and I agree, there's no way your cat was trapped down there for any length of time without you knowing it. He knew it was his time.
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-27-2007, 10:40 AM
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Replies: 94
Views: 2,806
Re: Slate.com on race and IQ
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The wealthiest black kids with college educated black parents outdoing the poorest Asian kids with uneducated parents (hint: they don't, which is shocking and instantly debunks a lot of...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
11-27-2007, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 94
Views: 2,806
Re: Slate.com on race and IQ
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It's a shorthand term for ethnic origin.
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No it's not. Haven't you been paying attention in all the threads where we've had the exact same discussion? When we are...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-23-2007, 01:21 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 318
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-22-2007, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 230
Views: 1,873
Re: What Would David Say About This Remark?
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By the way, I would be willing to agree to a couple of things.
The first is that the IQ difference may not be genetic. I think there's a quite a bit we don't know about inheritance,...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-22-2007, 12:01 AM
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Replies: 230
Views: 1,873
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Forum: Politics
10-13-2007, 05:40 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 144
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-07-2007, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 116
Views: 1,911
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-07-2007, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 116
Views: 1,911
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-07-2007, 01:03 PM
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Replies: 116
Views: 1,911
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-07-2007, 12:48 PM
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Replies: 116
Views: 1,911
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-07-2007, 09:20 AM
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Replies: 116
Views: 1,911
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
10-06-2007, 09:32 PM
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Replies: 116
Views: 1,911
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-25-2007, 03:14 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 799
Re: Are most scientific studies screwed up?
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Also, I was hoping to hear that the crappiness of Science and Nature was just limited to astrophysics. That's actually disappointing to hear that it is more widespread....
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-25-2007, 03:12 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 799
Re: Are most scientific studies screwed up?
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Agreed about Science and Nature. Some of the papers in there are amazingly crappy.
Funding is pretty screwed up. I think the publishing and funding have the same problem. You...
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Forum: About the Forums
09-25-2007, 01:38 PM
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Replies: 56
Views: 788
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Forum: MOD DISCUSSION
09-25-2007, 12:14 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 589
Re: Why isn\'t BluffThis banned?
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jman,
are there any other issues you are completely wrong about that you want to draw attention to while you're at it?
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Forum: About the Forums
09-24-2007, 09:38 PM
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Replies: 182
Views: 1,826
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Forum: About the Forums
09-24-2007, 09:33 PM
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Replies: 182
Views: 1,826
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-24-2007, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 799
Re: Are most scientific studies screwed up?
Agreed about Science and Nature. Some of the papers in there are amazingly crappy.
Funding is pretty screwed up. I think the publishing and funding have the same problem. You have these dinosaurs...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-21-2007, 11:03 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 461
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
08-30-2007, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 761
Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.
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This is a topic that always sticks in my craw. People make it out to be that there's no way to separate these groups into any legitimate categories and that just isn't true with...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
08-30-2007, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 761
Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.
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BFOD's.
They're rascals when they need to be.
Think of scalar time, not linear. Give it three-dimensional growths against a 'brane matrice.
And you realize at a very, very basic...
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
08-29-2007, 01:36 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 761
Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.
I think that a lot of yours, Dawkins, and Jones' comments are concerning our difficulties putting organisms into groups, both currently and across their evolutionary history. This doesn't mean to me...
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