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How the mighty Google shall look in 2084

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:32:31 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: Interesting

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Tags: google, funny, fun, humor, science fiction, software, internet, web 2.0, web, technology

Einstein quotations about learning

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:17:43 GMT

clipped by: thekay

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

Tags: einstein, learning, quotes

Imagining the 10th Dimension part1

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:34:46 GMT

clipped by: Lora316K

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: technology, science

Homemade Anti Gravity

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:38:08 GMT

clipped by: Cielerella

Clip Source: www.metacafe.com

[Video]

Tags: science

Learn How to Think

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:26:17 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead

Clip Source: www.positiveatheism.org

How Thinking Goes Wrong

Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us
to Believe Weird Things

1. Theory Influences Observations

2. The Observer Changes the Observed

3. Equipment Constructs Results

4. Anecdotes Do Not Make a Science

5. Scientific Language Does Not Make a Science

6. Bold Statements Do Not Make Claims True

7. Heresy Does Not Equal Correctness

8. Burden of Proof

9. Rumors Do Not Equal Reality

10. Unexplained Is Not Inexplicable

11. Failures Are Rationalized

12. After-the-Fact Reasoning

13. Coincidence

14. Representativeness

15. Emotive Words and False Analogies

16. Ad Ignorantiam

17. Ad Hominem and Tu Quoque

18. Hasty Generalization

19. Overreliance on Authorities

20. Either-Or

21. Circular Reasoning

22. Reductio ad Absurdum and the Slippery Slope

23. Effort Inadequacies and the Need for Certainty, Control, and Simplicity

24. Problem-Solving Inadequacies

25. Ideological Immunity, or the Planck Problem

Tags: science, reason, logic, evolution, knowledge

20 Most Popular Myths in Science

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:30:05 GMT

clipped by: haraya

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

1. Chickens can live without a head

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2. Water drains backwards in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Earth's rotation

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3. There is no gravity in space

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4. Humans use only 10 percent of their brains

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5. Eating a poppy seed bagel mimics opium use

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6. A penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian

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7. Adults don't grow new brain cells

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8. Chicken soup can cure the common cold

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9. Yawning is "contagious"

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10. Lightning never strikes the same place twice

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11. A dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's

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12. Hair and fingernails continue growing after death

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13. A falling cat will always land on its feet

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14. Men think about sex every seven seconds

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15. You get less wet by running in the rain

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16. The five second rule

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17. Animals can predict natural disasters

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18. Seasons are caused by the Earth's proximity to the sun

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19. The Great Wall of China is the only manmade structure visible from space

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20. It takes seven years to digest gum

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Tags: science, myths, truth, biology, astronomy, health, physics, perception, knowledge, list, lists

10 Most Impressive Photos of our Universe

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:16:20 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Not sure if anyone has posted this here already.

Clip Source: www.oddpeak.com

10 Most Impressive Photos of our Universe

Eskimo Nebula

Pillars of Creation

Pale Blue Dot

Supernova 1987A

Antennae Galaxies

Hubble Deep Field

Crab Nebula

Cat's Eye Nebula

Gamma Ray Explosion

Protoplanetary Disks

Tags: science, universe, pictures

Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:08:20 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: check out the source for descriptions and animations of the experiments.

Clip Source: physics-animations.com

Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York Times we list below 10 winners of this polling and accompany the short explanations of the physical experiments with computer animations.

1. Double-slit electron diffraction

2. Galileo's experiment on falling objects

3. Millikan's oil-drop experiment

4. Newton's decomposition of sunlight with a prism

5. Young's light-interference experiment

7. Eratosthenes' measurement of the Earth's circumference

8. Galileo's experiments with rolling balls down inclined planes

9. Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus

10. Foucault's pendulum

Tags: science, experiment, list, videos, physics, beauty

Free E-book sites

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:54:42 GMT

clipped by: rnmorgan1

Clip Source: www.spoofee.com

Some free ebook sites

The National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu

Sea Water as Fuel??

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:12:14 GMT

clipped by: mrouk

Clip Source: www.livescience.com

'Remarkable' Discovery: Scientists Burn Saltwater

ERIE, Pa. (AP)—An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.

Tags: science

THE Largest Web Page in The World

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:07:46 GMT

clipped by: sohil
clipper's remarks: Best used in Firefox

Clip Source: weblogs.mozillazine.org

The Largest Web Page In The World

[I'm out, by the way. Normal service will be resumed shortly.]

The largest web page in the world is 9 quadrillion pixels wide by 9 quadrillion pixels tall. It's designed to give you a bit of an idea of the size of the solar system. Try scrolling across it using your wheel mouse ;-)

Apparently, only Firefox can cope with it properly :-)

Posted by gerv at July 6, 2006 05:38 PM | TrackBack

Tags: science, web, web design, technology, firefox, interenet, interesting

How to Talk to a Global Warming Skeptic (FAQ)

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:49:11 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: More common questions and myths answered at the source, thoroughly cross-referenced and conveniently categorized and sub-categorized by type of argument:

Stages of Denial

Scientific Topics

Types of Argument

Levels of Sophistication

A nice reference that's updated with fresh comments. Many "skeptics" often are unaware (by choice or by circumstance) that their common questions have already been addressed by scientists long ago.

Clip Source: gristmill.grist.org

Stages of Denial

There's nothing happening

Inadequate evidence

Contradictory evidence

No consensus

We don't know why it's happening

Models don't work

Prediction is impossible

We can't be sure

Tags: climate, global, global warming, climate change, environment, skeptic, skeptics, climatology, atmosphere, earth, science, debate, argument, faq, questions, answers, c02, glaciers, temperature, myths

Albert Einstein's Quotes

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:25:22 GMT

clipped by: kwonsu

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Tags: einstein, quotes, people, life, humor

Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:55:20 GMT

clipped by: AcesLucky
clipper's remarks: Bill Nye (the science guy) Boo'd in Texas for saying the moon reflects the sun.

Clip Source: bsalert.com

Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.

As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own.

But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune.

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has mysteriously pulled its story from the online version, presumably to avoid further embarassment.

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, intelligent design, religion, superstition, theology, science

Space Balls. An accurate model of Planets to Sun etc

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:57:41 GMT

clipped by: sohil

Clip Source: webisto.com

Tags: science, space, photoshop, planets, sun, astronomy