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Peculiarist posted I Can See Clearly Now The Dust Has Gone | Oct 6, 2009
Apparently surgeons are already altering people's eyes to suit their jobs; fighter pilots have been given the ability to see 1,000 metres in the dark, a soprano had eye surgery to read the music in the front row of the orchestra, and US presidential candidates have asked for monovision, which lets...
petalice posted Vote for the idea you believe will help the most people. | Sep 29, 2009
A note about Google and their current undertaking. Worth taking a look at to see what it is all about. Google Project 10 to the 100 Well, here we are. Last fall we launched Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming....
WannabeTesla posted The Ideologies of Scientists | Sep 17, 2009
Based on my limited experience with scientists, I would have guessed they generally possess more liberal tendencies. A recent study from The Pew Research Center affirmed that suspicion, but the results were not without their surprises (for me, at least). 55% of the scientists surveyed identified...
Peculiarist posted Something That Ticks Me Off... | Sep 10, 2009
This is something that ticks me off ... People who claim that science is the best paradigm because it adjusts itself continuously to suit the facts, then insist that whatever is the current scientific thinking is absolute truth and deride people for suggesting that it may be changed in the future....
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