Category Archives: Science

Cognitive Dissonance

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Share Teaching students can sometimes be difficult. I often make use of skills that are not so very different from what politicians, lawyers, and used car salesmen (are those really three different groups?) practice. Students, by definition, come into a … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

ShareWith insufficient data it is easy to go wrong. –Carl Sagan

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Planets Everywhere

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

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Extreme Science

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

ShareThere’s an old and humorous joke about human arrogance. One day a group of scientists got together and decided that humanity had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Share“If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run – and often in the short one – the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.” –Arthur C. Clarke

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Curiosity Rover

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

Share“It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.” –Robert H. Goddard

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

ShareThere is one feature I notice that is generally missing in “cargo cult science.” It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty — a kind of leaning over backwards. … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

ShareThe world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time compares in its impact to the first exchange of messages between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan … Continue reading →

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Quote for the Day

Posted on December 9, 2011 by

Share“If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,” she’d said, “we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.” –Jack McDevitt, Cauldron

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