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Look at any political campaign and the rhetoric used. Sure, the politician states facts, usually try to portray the positive events and trends that ha...

Then again, never has any mass extinction event before happened with such an adaptable and dominant species around. If (and when) some species has by ...

I think that political ideologies aren't based in the end on evidence. They surely want portray themselves as evidence based, that is for sure. All su...

Democracy is above all a safety valve. It isn't perfect, but as a safety valve it works brilliantly. Yes, there are ignorant people and those who don'...

Perhaps it should be noted that any computer follows algorithms in a specific way (referred typically as the program it runs), which makes the whole t...

???And the Washington Post, NPR, CBS... what on Earth is your point? Well, absurd events simply do make it to the papers. Just as the Evergreen nonsen...

And that we are anonymous on this site proves the fear of possible consequences quite well.

Well, the Jews had a problem with nazism too. Yet in Western society we value self criticism. We want to be better, we want to improve things. We want...

I think it shows that Americans have a similar issues like Germans have with their past. Not as traumatic as there of course, yet slavery, segregation...

So how is it now after nearly four years? Joined members here are over 4000 (many not active, of course). At least we are still up and the old wasted ...

I just have to disagree with this. You don't have to have the ability to make a bijection to have size, a < b does give a size comparison and size doe...

Aha! This is the definition that you base your thinking. An integer shows size, yes, but size doesn't have to be an integer! Just to take one definiti...

So, could it be then there would be Absolute Infinity?

Ok, let's think about what you said here. So infinite sets are unmeasurably bigger. Fine, they are bigger, we agree with this. How then couldn't you s...

Finally Bitter Crank shows his real face! We should shut up and continue debating about other non-important issues...

But isn't an infinite set bigger than any finite set? Doesn't that imply size, even if obviously you cannot measure it like a finite set? And what is ...

I think official documents equivalent to passports have been used since Ancient Egypt. The Chinese used them extensively. Passports have been used her...

Csalisbury's totally accurate description of you above (and me) are so spot on that it's now just entertainment for others for us to continue this ext...

All well defined, have to say. (Of course I've never seen myself as a centrist liberal at all, but as coming from a socialist nanny-state that Bernie ...

Yet what you are implying is that someone funding an institute project that publishes something is then directly supporting the factual arguments of a...

First, the article takes Paglia as an example, but it also takes professor Samuel Abrams. To infer then that Paglia is vouched by Koch Brothers is a l...

Bullshit. If you want your 'alt-right' culprit, it would be the editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg: See The Atlantic Begins “The Speech Wars” Re...

Are the Koch Brothers vouching for Camille Paglia? Are they funding her? Or would it be Tom Nichols, the writer of the article? Or the actually, the A...

Koch Brothers paying for articles about Camille Paglia? An article mentioning among other things Paglia and you are saying the Koch Brothers are vouch...

I think that the anti-nuclear power stance comes from the issue that people are simply so ignorant that they link nuclear energy to nuclear weapons. O...

As I said, the UN/WHO have come to the conclusion that 4 000 people likely will die of the accident. Equivalent to 27% of Americans that die annually ...

We won't stay long in the overshoot in my view. One has to understand that there will be a peak of human population, and then it will decrease. This h...

The use of logic makes mathematics as it is. I think it is reasonable to say that logic gives us the mirror how we make sense of the World around us. ...

How about this graph? http://www.smashcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00e551f080038834014e600f22b6970c.png Interesting, surely will be dramat...

Usually the most beautiful mathematical object (or theorem, proof etc.) is the most simple and the most applicable to various fields of mathematics. I...

:up: I would add the 'ideological war' isn't truly detrimental or dangerous either as neither side is really thinking of implementing a Final Solution...

And again, what in the quote is about white supremacy? Xenophobia doesn't imply white supremacist thought. You might argue it the other way around, bu...

Yep. Sports Illustrated can pat themselves on the back for those progressive multiculturalism points earned.

The floor is yours, Frank A.

Logic gives so much systemic and rigorous structure to mathematics that it's quite reasonable for us to argue that mathematical truths are discovered....

Oh yes, this trainwreck is going to hell in a handbasket. We are all doomed. How long have we been doomed for now? Two hundred years? More? But now it...

Both are professors, one graduate of Yale, another graduate and PhD from Cambridge and both have long extensive academic careers. But if they have bee...

I think we should set up an Outrage Bingo - the right-wing targeted version. Other ones just waiting their turn to be 'Scrutonized' would have to be C...

And that's exactly your problem. You don't see the positive side in the World as you have grown up what many would see as the model of a peaceful pros...

Unspeakable? Well, I wouldn't want to start speaking about why the US President has these photos where his own daughter poses as a young girlfriend to...

What I was criticizing was that Tiff wasn't talking about Trump's wall, she was talking about what was happening in Arizona. It's actually a good thin...

Definately a must read. And those who won't read it, the most important part: Now that's the kind testimony the US needs. :up:

So now it would be possible. But it isn't possible. Numbers exist in our heads only. And likely some animals use a mathematical system of "nothing, 1,...

We define part of the living to be intelligent. As what we know to be living is carbon based, we have this assumption all living is carbon based. We m...

At this level, it is estimated that the there are far less than a googol of atoms in the observable universe. As stones consist of more than one atom,...

Yep. And Trump loves conspiracy theories. Yet the vast majority of people thinking that borders shouldn't be totally open aren't white nationalists.

No. Understand how this goes, Tiff. First and foremost, if ANYTHING you say can be interpreted as giving credibility to Trump, people are going to dis...

I'd say those that portray themselves as defending the victims are the one's that really are the bullies.

You forget to mention that she has had success in her lawsuit (or the pressure group Council on American-Islamic Relations, which filed the lawsuit on...

Stones can exist. Yet Again you have the same illogical idea here: two googolplex of stones cannot exist. And where in reality exists this '54'? Congr...