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...
did you ever play the computer game Captain Blood where you attempt to communicate with aliens using an icon based language?
ReplyDeleteKadir beneath Mo Moteh.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Blood was a nice concept, but flawed execution.
ReplyDeleteAlas, I missed that one.
ReplyDeleteThat's why theory -> observation and not proof. You keep testing things even if you think they're really true.
ReplyDeleteOccam's Razor is useful, but there's no compunction on the Universe to be simple.