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Comment NC Research (Score 1) 30

Say what you will about NC politics (and, shit, there is a lot to be said), we pump out some top-notch research! Wake Forest, Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State seem to continually be in the science section headlines for some new something or other.

It's also a shame that the NCAA bullshit is putting a cloud over all the hard working researchers at UNC.

Comment Re:Huh (Score 0) 223

Time out! Are you saying I'm in the 'Papa knows best' crowd proudly displaying my new knowledge of the D-K and using it as such to shut down discussion? I feel like there's some irony somewhere in there...perhaps the D-K effect doesn't mean what you think it means? I do like the idea of a self-proclaimed D-K expert though, deliciously recursive. If anything I'd say it is a gauntlet-throw to put up some actual citations or evidence or get off the lawn.

If Koan had a modicum of expertise I'm sure he would have cited it prominently. Then again, he also probably wouldn't have said anything knowing that every cubic cm and milliwatt was accounted for.

I realize that it is frustrating seeing such a badass feat of astrophysics be humbled by a shadow...but...

If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola!
(Jellineck, Geoffrey et al 2000)

Comment Re:Huh (Score 4, Insightful) 223

"It seems to me the design and/or planning of this mission were poorly thought out"

Is the funniest fucking thing I've heard all day. Do you have any idea how well thought out this mission was? FFS look at the trajectory it took 10 YEARS(!) to get to the comet. And you think they overlooked the fact that the comet is craggly?

Jesus-Dunning-Kruger-Christ.

http://www.esa.int/esatv/Video...

Comment Re:In spite of this and other similar phenomena... (Score 1) 140

The drug addiction and the need to pee come from the same area in the brain. The drug co-opted that neural substructure to warp the person's motivations. There is a shit-ton of neuroscience evidence to back up both of my claims. You can counter with analogies, but the neurological evidence of brain-based consciousness is solid.

Censorship

Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten" 257

Goatbert writes with word that pianist Dejan Lazic, unhappy with the opinion of Post music critic Anne Midgette, "has asked the Washington Post to remove an old review from their site in perhaps the best example yet of why it is both a terrible ruling and concept." It’s the first request The Post has received under the E.U. ruling. It’s also a truly fascinating, troubling demonstration of how the ruling could work. “To wish for such an article to be removed from the internet has absolutely nothing to do with censorship or with closing down our access to information,” Lazic explained in a follow-up e-mail to The Post. Instead, he argued, it has to do with control of one’s personal image — control of, as he puts it, “the truth.” (Here is the 2010 review to which Lazic objects.)

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