sounds as idealistic, and George Orwell contrary, as it must have sounded to most realists back then .. yet for all to simply dismiss such thoughts, even now, feels could be a bit like Newton's and Huygen's brilliance bowing to their God block, in the places where Tyson suggested they did .. mucho gracias to Neil Tyson, for that insight in the first video (only watched so far) which is well worth the time from beginning to end (as you know all are) basically so the truth of his
"Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent Design is a philosophy of ignorance."
at 21:46 can be most fully understood and justified.
Great post, F6. Repeat, Tyson is a gem.
Have many or any made much progress on Smedley Butler's 78 year old position?
Einstein's Letter Questioning God Goes Up for Auction
by Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | October 05, 2012 01:53pm ET
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In part of his letter, Einstein writes, "For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions .. http://www.livescience.com/14141-13-common-silly-superstitions.html . And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them," as translated from German by Joan Stambaugh. [Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus .. http://www.livescience.com/19520-alleged-christian-relics-jesus.html ] In his book, Gutkind suggested that unlike the mass hypnosis spoiling mankind at the time, "The soul of the Jewish people was never a mass-soul. Israel's soul could not be hypnotized; it never succumbed to hypnotic assaults. … The soul of Israel is incorruptible."
And as for whether Einstein believed in God? Yes and no, it seems.
In a March 24, 1954 letter, he is quoted as writing, "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
However, in the letter to Gutkind, Einstein wrote the word God was "nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."
The Earthquake That Brought an Empire to Its Knees In the 18th century, the Portuguese empire was enjoying the wealth of its second Golden Age. Mother Nature, however, had other plans. 12.27.15 It was a calamity of Biblical proportions, akin to Sodom and Gomorrah or Egypt in Exodus. In 1755, Lisbon, the capital of the extensive Portuguese empire and the third-busiest port in the world, was in the midst of its second golden age. The seemingly endless supply of gold from Brazil had catapulted the tiny nation back into the high echelons it had occupied two centuries before with its colonies in Africa and Asia. On All Saints Day of that year, all of this came to a calamitous halt when an earthquake, a tsunami, and a fire destroyed Lisbon and relegated the Portuguese empire, more often than not, to the status of a mere footnote in history. [...] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/27/the-earthquake-that-brought-an-empire-to-its-knees.html
Flat earth rapper BoB releases Neil deGrasse Tyson diss track
In response to the astrophysicist taking issue with his claim that earth is flat, rapper releases track larded with conspiracy theories and a shoutout for Holocaust denier David Irving
Rapper BoB says Neil DeGrasse Tyson needs ‘to loosen up his vest’. Photograph: Getty Images
Ellen Brait
Tuesday 26 January 2016 13.59 EST Last modified on Tuesday 26 January 2016 17.36 EST
American rapper BoB has taken his claims that the Earth is flat and written a rap, in which he restates his views and disses award-winning astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson who refuted the singer’s arguments on Monday.
Good luck pronouncing the proposed names for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118.
by John Timmer - Jun 9, 2016 2:50pm CDT
Earlier this year, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) accepted the evidence that indicated we had produced four new elements, filling out the bottom row of the periodic table. At the time, they were given temporary names—and catchy ones, too. We'll all be sad to see ununseptium (element 117) go, but you'll be glad to know that the formal names [ http://iupac.org/iupac-is-naming-the-four-new-elements-nihonium-moscovium-tennessine-and-oganesson/ ] are probably just as difficult to pronounce properly.
Three of the new names honor the places where the elements were produced; the fourth recognizes a key person who helped organize the work involved.
For element 113, Japan is recognized by one of its alternate names, Nihon. The element will be called nihonium, and bear the symbol Nh. The remaining elements were produced by collaboration between the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia and two of the US' national labs: Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore. Element 115 honors the Russian part of that collaboration with the name moscovium (symbol Mc). 117 handles Oak Ridge by getting the name tennessine, or Ts. Lawrence Livermore has the misfortune of being in California, which already has an element named after it, so it gets left out.
That leaves element 118, which is named after Yuri Oganessian, a key figure in the research on these ultra-heavy elements. In elemental terms, his name leads to oganesson, or Og.
The committee involved in this approval notes that Ts, the new symbol for tennessine, is also used as an abbreviation for a chemical group called tosyl. But frankly, it doesn't care ("this is not considered to be a valid objection," write the authors who represent the IUPAC). As the elements' names have been approved by all the relevant parties and the period for public comments is over, fans of tosyl groups are out of luck.
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