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Comment Re:Wonder if he can make it funny again. (Score 1) 30

On a discussion board I ran, I started a long running thread "Is this real, or The Onion?" challenging people to decide whether a headline was fictional.

It was hard. On one occasion it was both a real one and an Onion parody.

We are in Heinlein's Crazy Years, except he didn't foresee how weird.

Comment Experiment is the source of scientific truth (Score 1) 258

We have an overwhelming set of experiments and observations about momentum being conserved. But if someone can show a replicable exception someday, we'll have a huge overhaul to do.

My questions about this would include whether the inventor has given enough information for other people to build one. Then I'd look around to see if it's, by some unknown mechanism, reacting against something in the environment.

Comment Totally anecdotal (Score 2) 84

Standardized tests can benefit minorities.

One of my online friends is non-white and immigrated to Australia as a child. She had a thick accent and racist teachers labeled her stupid.

Then one day she had the chance to take a standardized test. Her very high intelligence showed, and she got tracked into a selective school and moved into a high-paying career.

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