04 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn't Want to be President
He wants to enlighten voters so they'll elect a good one.
Folksonomies: politics
02 FEB 2012 by ideonexus The Positive Mind
Doesn't concern itself with absolute truth, but is focused on laws and how facts tie into them.
Folksonomies: facts,theory
02 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Facts Need Theory to Guide Them
Without theory, we have no framework within which to contain them.
Folksonomies: empiricism,facts,theory
02 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Nuclear Power Forces Man to Greatness
Because the alternative is self-destruction.
Folksonomies: atomic power,nuclear power
02 FEB 2012 by ideonexus The Scientist Knows the God of Newton
A god who is in nature.
Folksonomies: spiritual naturalism,religion,spirituality
02 FEB 2012 by TGAW What We Can Celebrate About Malcolm X on May 19th
Malcolm's evolution of thought and his own self-error correcting mechanism is something that should be embraced and celebrated.
Folksonomies: malcolmx selfcorrectingalgorithm
01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus The Difficulty of Unlearning Errors
Ignorance is a blank sheet on which to write, but error is a sheet that must be erased.
Folksonomies: learning,errors,error correction
01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus The Enormity of Finding a Disease-Causing Gene
Quoting Francis S. Collins.
Folksonomies: genetics,disease,genome
01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Biology has Principles and Logic
Francis Collins describes how he came to love biology after initially dismissing it as rote memorization.
Folksonomies: biology,logic
01 FEB 2012 by ideonexus Scientists See Phenomena, Historians Look for Motives
Intelligent observation versus an attempt to understand the thoughts behind events.
Folksonomies: history,science,historical methods