Posts Tagged ‘science’
War on Drugs prohibition comic – Stuart McMillen…
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The War on Drugs?!
Interesting cartoon showing a historic comparison, and I learned that Milton Friedman was against in for economic reasons. via Russell Nelson?? |
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Ferdinand Zebua
War on Drugs prohibition comic – Stuart McMillen cartoons
The uncanny parallels between alcohol Prohibition and the ‘war on drugs’. 28 page comic by Stuart McMillen about Milton Friedman’s views on drug laws.
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It’s the incentive structure, people! Why science reform must come from the granting agencies.
I discussed this same issue in Medicine sometime ago, if it were so that a solution is thought te have been found them the sampling rate should increase. This is a case of search satisfaction – you expected to find something found something so you stop searching rather than finishing your search. While in a larger sample set or more regression to the mean takes place, which means the results come closer to the average..
Go to Warp #science
According to Discovery Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light “You just wouldn’t travel faster than light.” It’s apparently the space around the ship which is travelling faster than light, the ship itself would remain stationary.
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Why We Can Believe Conspiracies #health
Everybody has some kind of believe in conspiracies, whether they are based on true or false data. The ability to see connections in the world around us is something that led to modern science as we know it. Scientific American reports that Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results and make us believe there are connections that can’t be substantiated by scientific method.
Our brains have evolved so that they “… pay attention to anecdotes, false positives (believing there is a connection between A and B when there is not) are usually harmless, whereas false negatives (believing there is no connection between A and B when there is) may take you out of the gene pool.”
But I still don’t know who was on the grassy knoll.
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Environmental Problem? Just Add Chemicals!

In the article A dash of lime — a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels they go into the details of removing CO2 from the air by adding lime to seawater. “Adding lime to seawater increases alkalinity, boosting seawater’s ability to absorb CO2 from air and reducing the tendency to release it back again. … The process of making lime generates CO2, but adding the lime to seawater absorbs almost twice as much CO2. The overall process is therefore ‘carbon negative’. ” There is a nice Open Source project Cquestrate.
So we have a problem of our own creation, a problem from introducing too much of one chemical into the environment. The solution might be to pour a different chemical into the sea to fix the problem. It could also be completely misguided.