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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #360 on: August 09, 2010, 04:34:41 PM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #361 on: August 10, 2010, 01:13:12 PM »

To paraphrase Avenue Q, "The brain is for porn"
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #362 on: November 10, 2010, 08:26:58 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #363 on: November 10, 2010, 09:29:49 AM »

Man, SMBC is getting eerily topical.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #364 on: November 16, 2010, 06:35:15 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #365 on: November 17, 2010, 01:21:35 PM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #366 on: November 17, 2010, 01:41:35 PM »

Huh. That is pretty retarded cool. Bacterial distributed processing.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #367 on: November 17, 2010, 02:05:25 PM »

This is either the start of organic computers or the start of the bacterial conquest of mankind.

Either way, that is fucking sweet.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #368 on: November 17, 2010, 02:27:23 PM »

Those both started a long time ago. The new, sexy thing here is that they successfully distributed the problem, i.e., had it solved by lots of smaller things working in tandem.
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Like a graphics card, or maybe a torrent download.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #369 on: November 17, 2010, 02:28:54 PM »

Antimatter captured

On the one hand, this is very cool. On the other hand, I was actually under the impression we'd steadily been storing very minute quantities of antimatter obtained as byproducts of atom-smashing experiments like this for years now. I guess I was mistaken? 
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #370 on: November 17, 2010, 02:31:24 PM »

Me too. I guess we've been generating it "on-the-spot" when we were experimenting on it?
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #371 on: November 21, 2010, 12:13:34 PM »

I like how the article mentions nothing about Star Trek's antimatter shenanigans.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #372 on: November 23, 2010, 07:23:46 AM »

New issue of Psychological Science to feature study which claims rich folks display less emotional acuity than poor ones.

So somebody decided they wanted to make a point by trying to prove it scientifically. Huh.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #373 on: December 02, 2010, 08:59:36 AM »

A few "inspiring" links for you today about the human condition.

First, it seems that absent outside guides, humans can only go in circles.

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And also two EX-cellent talks with Dan Ariely on the subject of human behaviour:

The ways in which our decision-making is not under our control

The flaws in our moral code

This work is very near and precious to me, because I believe one of the greatest challenges (if not the greatest challenge) that faces the species is our own capacity for rationalization and dissembling and that far greater application of the scientific method to our own thought processes is sorely needed.

None of the material presented is very surprising, but Ariely, does an excellent job of presenting it in a clear, simple way, with a solid basis in real scientific behavioural testing.

I can only hope this type of work becomes at least as well-known as the Milgram experiments.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #374 on: December 06, 2010, 11:43:55 AM »

Most rich people have asperger's syndrome. Maybe people with asperger's syndrome are more likely to be successful/wealthy.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #375 on: December 06, 2010, 12:54:50 PM »

I'm going to at least need a pop science article before I'm going to consider that.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #376 on: December 06, 2010, 02:00:17 PM »

Yeah, most people I know with Aspergers' are actually pretty hopeless.

I know that's not data, and that once in a while you get the "loner genius" but the fact of the matter is that extreme social disabilities are not assets.

Now, narcissism and sociopathy, those'll get you somewhere.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #377 on: December 06, 2010, 05:24:07 PM »

I don't know if Mongrel is being sarcastic, but intelligence and psychopathy will either land you in jail or in a comfortable mansion, depending on the extent of the psychopathy.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #378 on: December 06, 2010, 05:35:56 PM »

Sadly, that line was mostly played straight. Mostly.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #379 on: December 10, 2010, 02:14:46 PM »

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