From a bbc news article:
"...had Nasa's Viking-2 lander, which visited the Red Planet in 1976, dug a little deeper into the Martian soil, it would almost certainly have struck the water-ice MRO is now seeing at the base of impact craters ( Read more... )

The reason for economic booms and busts: it is rational to invest in a Ponzi scheme ( Read more... )

That which is true is beautiful, but that which is beautiful is not always true.

Freedom is not what happens when oppression collapses, oppression is what happens when freedom collapses.

Our freedom is being eroded at its foundations and when its supports are thin enough the slightest breeze will send it tumbling over so fast there'll be nothing left, and you won't even see it coming.

The latest (from BBC news): nightclub ( Read more... )

which parts of the physical supervene on the mental?

Every so often we hear that astronomers have detected a complex organic molecule such as an amino acid in a dust cloud far away in space. Some scientists conclude from this that early life may have had a helping hand in the form of organic molecules raining down from the sky. A few others go all the way and endorse the "panspermia" theory, which ( Read more... )

There is something obviously wrong with the way most if not all physicists think about black holes ( Read more... )

To say that energy and matter are the same thing (E=mc2) is not to say that only matter exists, or only energy. It is the same with material and mind. The sensible alternative to dualism is not materialism. It is the view that both matter and mind exist, and they are the same thing.

I don't know if I've pointed this out explicitly before, but there is something very important you should know about more efficient technology. In a sense you know it already but it's one of those things that's hard to really see until someone points it out, and you may find it hard to accept ( Read more... )

The words are not separate from their meaning.