Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby
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Review : The Brain
I interrupt my mythology book reviews to turn to the completely different matter of neuroscience. David Eagleman's Livewired was one of ...
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Where Americans think Ukraine is These are the guesses of 2066 Americans as to where Ukraine is. Only 1 in 6 were correct. Presumably the...
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Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
This dude just always rubbed me the wrong way. Probably the whole string theory thing. And that fact that he always seems to me to be more interested in promoting himself than science. Well if you can count ST as science hides
ReplyDeleteAdventures In Blender I know what you mean. For me, it's Neil de Grasse Tyson who really grinds my gears. I just can't stand him. Can't say I'm a fan of Brian Cox either.
ReplyDeleteYet for some reason I quite like Michio Kaku. While Tyson is manically hyperactive about even the most uninteresting facts, and Cox wouldn't get excited if aliens abducted him, Kaku is closer to the middle ground. Somehow he just doesn't convey an impression of self-promotion (to me anyway) in the way that I see Tyson doing by the bucketful. Can't really explain why that is. Perhaps because he seems a bit more willing to entertain speculation.
I don't have a firm opinion on string theory, so that probably helps too. :)
Well I still haven't forgiven NDT for the whole Pluto not being planet thing :P
ReplyDeleteLIKEWISE ! That was actually the first time I saw him on TV. We got off on the wrong foot and it's just gone downhill from there !
ReplyDeleteRhys Taylor - I'm with you on Neil de Grasse Tyson.
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