My opinion is that science tries to uncover the truth, aims for an objective truth, yet what we do and what we want is a subjective question and objec...
Just as with everything else that Trump says he will do, this too won't go anywhere. You're simply making the mistake of thinking these issues too log...
The truth is that there do exist threats, but the media and the public discourse focuses on some of them. And of course, some push an ideological agen...
I don't think it is referred to be a science. Or at least anything close to natural sciences. If someone refers it to a science, then he or she define...
Historically that has been the plan, really. But of course we can learn from the past if we want to. I've actually come to the conclusion that the bes...
I'll give an example. Here in Finland politicians don't do ad hominem attacks as in the US and the discourse isn't as heated as is there. Parties have...
I'm not so sure about that. People are quite the same in the end. The average Westerner is living a quite similar life in Europe or in the US, but wha...
And socialist revolutions have taken that literally, the elimination or extermination of the parasites that are called the rich. Those who do not cons...
The lack of civility and the vitriolic political discourse is the consequence of a "winner takes it all"-political system (and perhaps simply the rude...
I've noticed that one of the most patriotic people, meaning that they love or have a fondness to their country and the people, cherish the culture and...
But to say that civilization will end in 15 or 30 years? Really? Just a prediction error on timing? That was nearly 50 years ago, actually. (And do no...
Perhaps this point should be more discussed here, as especially when the following P5. makes the argument that these borders are so artificial that th...
And that time when an issue is no longer debatable is usually brought up immediately to rally one's side. Looking for compromise would be demeaning ap...
And manic-depression is something ordinary, or as it's called nowdays, bipolar disorder. The name ought to tell what is the other extreme. Many compan...
I think one problem is that people adapt too easily to things that are immoral and wrong in the society. When they happen on a societal level, suddenl...
If you look at the whole discourse about the future of the environment about the subject during the last 40 years, same is true. The fact is that proc...
Mathematical models are descriptions of a system using mathematical concepts and language. As such they are, in the end, interpretations of reality. W...
I remember this whimsically hypocrite argument thrown around when talking about what to do with the domesticated animals when everybody is ordered to ...
Or that basically many Americans understand "class" as "caste". A caste system goes against the idea of America, yet class is different and far more e...
It's the political rhetoric of today. Just like the "mushroom cloud" was earlier. Totally obvious for Trump to start talking about caravans as he has ...
In American political discourse there is absolutely no desire to achieve any kind of consensus or reconciliation. The main objective is simply to win ...
Even if a bit off the subject, this is a wonderfull example of how American transport policy (and the lack of it) has made a once fairly good transpor...
First of all, that's not a hidden fact. Secondly, all those factors you mention make fossil fuels cheap and the supply ample. Our transport fleet, shi...
As I said, technology, production costs. Take for example solar power. Battery technology has been one thing and the obvious reality that the sun does...
I disagree. The reason has been that the technology hasn't been there earlier to make renewable energy like wind and solar competitive compared to fos...
No. We fit nicely into our cities. The best way to decrease population growth is to make people to be more affluent. Rich people have less kids than p...
You've nailed it. This is the main problem. Public opinion is prone to scares and ignorance and politicians actually won't go against it. Hence energy...
When we factor in time, we can make estimates of the inherent dangers. We have had now for over 70 nuclear energy and in those 70 years we have seen a...
Usually higher than average radiation people get is when flying and in medical imaging. And most of the radiation we get is from the natural backgroun...
And how many people have been killed due to nuclear accidents compared to the hundreds of thousands being killed every year by coal power plants and f...
It's just modern discourse in the age of tweets and simplified communication. It's not that everybody has gotten to be more angry and less tolerant. W...
Don't forget the sea floor. There are quite a lot of raw materials there too. I can just imagine how a big of a ecodisaster we can make to ocean life ...
The opposition to nuclear energy is exactly that: an ideology. And this ideology can drive us to worse energy policies than otherwise. The real people...
True. Some technological hurdles have to be done, but I'm optimistic. Especially solar power has become dramatically cheaper. Renewable energy goes do...
Have been away (so this is an answer to page 4) Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry simply starts from different premises (or should I dare to say ax...
I think the answer to Rovelli is simple: we never can escape our own subjectivity, we will allways do mathematics from our viewpoint and to get utilit...
Summary: One can get a profound change through the market mechanism when a new alternative is cheaper and better to the old one. Yet the typical solut...
Usually humanity has gotten into trouble when it hasn't had the science and technology to overcome it's problems. "Globalization" has then turned back...
Perhaps the problem is that people simply dismiss the most obvious sources how changes happen: through the market mechanism and through technical deve...
Perhaps start with repealing Citizens United vs FEC? The truth is that facts can be replaced with alternative facts and if the story is believable eno...
What it shows is that Computer Science journals also have lax publishing requirements or standards. Hence basically this is a question of a general pr...
In academia it's quite normal that people studying something that isn't clearly part of existing disciplines want to start their own. Enough researche...
Yes, Bitter Crank has been for years the voice of conservatism and right-wing ideology on this forum and has fiercely opposed leftist thinking and esp...
I'm not so sure if that's so true. Left-wing or right-wing media discourse can be far from what ordinary people who just happen to vote either left or...
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