December 2010
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Just wondering
Does anybody know what happens if you raise a kid without giving them a name and they never know anybody else’s name/don’t know the concept of “I” or “you”? How would they be able to distinguish themselves?
Logical Fallacies →
haleymeijer:
A fallacy is a faulty or unreliable type of argument. Fallacies may be accidental, because someone is careless or does not recognize the error, or done purposely to try to mislead. Note that just because a fallacy has been committed it does not necessarily follow that the conclusion is wrong (see the fallacy fallacy). Other types of faulty reasoning do not fit the strict...
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
– Plato
Only 2 college supplements left (Swarthmore and Carnegie Mellon). Both are essays in the form of “Why do you want to attend this institution?” Both are supposed to be around 1 page long single spaced. Apparently “Because I can get a good education and enjoy myself there” isn’t a proper answer. Rage.
Watchageofreason:
Soldiers on LSD
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary... →
The canadian Centre for Inquiry has a website devoted to presenting the evidence or lack-thereof for certain extraordinary claims and how to debunk them.
“Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a...”
– Jean Rostand (via ageofreason)
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Subsisting on Arsenic, Microbe May Redefine Life →
Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about.