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  1. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Same-sex marriage

    In case you are concerned about the SCOTUS same-sex marriage ruling: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/a-30-second-guide-to-how-gay-marriage-ruling-affects-you/ ~~ Paul
  2. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Aphantasia

    Here is a variation in brain function that I did not know about: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html ~~Paul
  3. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Best Dilbert ever

    Well, one of the best. http://dilbert.com/ ~~ Paul
  4. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Songs on new iPhone

    I'm about to replace my iPhone 5S with a 6. I'm going to try diligently not to round up multiple Apple employees and take them out behind the barn, as I have done with the past two upgrades. I want to copy precisely those songs on my old phone to my new phone. Nothing but songs, and nothing but...
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    Number-space mapping in chicks (David B.)

    There is a fascinating article in the 30 January issue of Science titled "Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans' mental number line." Abstract: "Humans represent numbers along a mental number line (MNL), where smaller values are located on the left and larger on the right...
  6. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    "The Imitation Game"

    I just saw The Imitation Game, the movie adaptation of Hodges' book Alan Turing: The Engima. Ooh, not too good. The facts were terribly distorted. ~~ Paul
  7. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    OT moved from ID thread

    So the Genesis story doesn't operate by the bog-standard definitions of truth and falsehood? If not, then why should I take it as anything other than a story? ~~ Paul
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    The Sound of pi

    Everything else we talk about here pales in importance compared to this project. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/what-the-first-10000-digits-of-pi-being-dialed-on-a-rotary-phone-sounds-like ~~ Paul
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    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    This is quite an interesting video with Sean Carroll talking about the Higgs and the fundamental nature of reality. ~~ Paul
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    C&D evolution thread

    Thus telling us that we should not equate the historical modern synthesis with the current theory of evolution. ~~ Paul
  11. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Meta-feeling the future

    Bem, Tressoldi, Rabeyron, and Duggan have just published a meta-analysis of 90 experiments that replicated Bem's "feeling the future" precognition experiments: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2423692 ~~ Paul
  12. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Happy anniversary IBM System/360

    Today is the 50th anniversary of the announcement of the IBM System/360. http://www.ibm.com/mainframe50/ My first machine was an IBM 1130, but my second was a 360/50 at Washington University in St. Louis. I very much doubt that any code I wrote then still exists, but if it does it can run on...
  13. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Chupacabra

    Bubba and Brent don't know what they talkin' about. http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2014/04/02/dnt-tx-possible-chupacabra.kavu.html ~~ Paul
  14. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    The Chinese Room

    We've had a few threads that dabbled with Searle's Chinese Room. One was in progress when it was rudely trashed by the Great Forum Apocalypse. There are many reasons why Searle's thought experiment doesn't tell us much. I'll start with one. Why did Searle put himself in the room, rather than a...
  15. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    Spoon bending video

    The following video includes a spoon bending starting at 21:30. Does anyone think the person is doing anything other than bending the spoon by force? ~~ Paul
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    Suspensions, Bannings, and Post Deletions

    This thread is for posting suspensions, bannings, and post deletions, along with the reasons for them. Please take discussions of these actions to another thread. The following members are banned from posting in the Skeptiko Show, Consciousness & Science, Extended Consciousness & Spirituality...
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    Skeptics asked not to post

    Just in case you're wondering why certain members are not responding to your posts, a group of skeptics has been asked not to post in any forum except B&SD. ~~ Paul
  18. Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

    New Bem replication

    Marilyn Schlitz, Arnaud Delorme, and Daryl Bem have registered a new replication of Bem's experiment 4 at the Koestler registry: http://www.koestler-parapsychology.psy.ed.ac.uk/TrialRegistryDetails.html It is not only a replication but also an attempt at testing the experimenter effect. I have...
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