What is killing the bees? Monsanto, Bayer, ...

What is killing bees? Monsanto, Bayer, etc.

It's turtles all the way down...

Heh. Henry Kissinger gone bad...Isn't that redundant?

QUOTE | "It's always struck me as a little odd how resentful players are in the F2P business model about paying a couple dollars when they don't think twice about paying $50 for the same amount of fun or gameplay time." - Veteran designer Steve Meretzky, talking about the evolution of free-to-play games.

Quaint, historical, CULTURAL purposes. Kant's theories have been prominently discussed and absorbed into the western cultural lexicon for generations, now. Considering this is an article about how culture affects our sensory perceptions, I'd say it's relevant.

Agreed on all counts. As I'vr said before, I just wish this incarnation of Cosmos didn't make me feel like an old man inviting kids to get off of my lawn.

I agree on all points, but then this iteration of Cosmos probably isn't directed at me. Young people these days tend to be more attracted to visual spectacles and this might be something that reaches them better than it reaches someone like me who is in his early 40's and has seen the original Cosmos. I watch it…

So far, thoroughly underwhelmed with this incarnation of Cosmos. Perhaps it's because of the non-stop uninspiring music track. Perhaps it's because of the focus on SFX as opposed to story telling. Perhaps it's because I'm already familiar with most of what the show covers (thanks, Dr. Sagan) (and no, I'm not an…

It's cool but the faces they reconstructed look nothing like the actual one aside from getting the gender right.

Theists get attacked for using an exterior-sourced god to explain things that science can't explain, but it's just as illegitimate if science propose multiverses to explain away things they can't explain.

not being a physicist or having the maths required to actually engage these concepts in the only language they can be expressed...is there anything other than 'mathematical possibility' to suggest the multiverse? I just find it very difficult to go from 'the math doesn't rule it out' to 'it's true'.

As an early adopter, I'm not... cancelled my DK2 pre-order. I have no faith in Facebook to deliver the product Oculus set out to make.

Remember an hour ago when the Oculus Rift was full of promise.

Actually, ridicule is the last resort of desperate arguments. Science and faith are not enemies - they work together.

'I can't observe the resurrection of Christ, I can observe how objects fall.'

Although I realize this is a nitpick, I don't entirely agree with you. I would say, depending on the explanation for the experiment, it might be impossible, or at least very hard to repeat. If it's an experiment on the power of the human mind, or the power of the human anything, there are all kinds of things that…

My life became a lot easier when I realized that its ok for people to be wrong. I became less of an insufferable prick too.

Yes. Completely. Skepticism can become just as dogmatic as any other view. I mean, it's people, so of course.

Honestly, I think a confounding factor in examining all this is that there are different types of skepticism (or three attitudes toward skepticism). Let's see if I can improvise a few terms: