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profile.gif David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.

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Portraying the Uncertainty of Facts

Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of themThe Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Posted on: May 7, 2007 6:48 PM, by Benjamin Cohen

Cat and Girl offers a smashing take on facts and fiction. An excerpt from Spoiler Alert:

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So many ways to pose a question here:

How come fiction reigns over fact?

Do you think facts are more meaningful?

Can you believe these people, suggesting that facts don't rule?

What is the danger of promoting fiction?

But facts are important of course, we know, so what place fiction?

Dare you propose we have to choose?

Yet, yet, where is beauty?

Oh please, go to some poetry blog for crissakes, alright?

But the world is larger than you or I, isn't it?

Depends what you mean...what do you mean?

I don't follow. Are you driving at something here?

Where are the answers in fiction? Where is the certainty?

How many different answers can we come to from facts? Where is the certainty?

Get over it, it's far too vague?

Oh I don't like this blog.





Link above courtesy of the unlinkable WJG.

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I'm gonna have to side with the girl in the comic strip on this one. Mainly, because, dude - cats can't talk.

Posted by: David Ng | May 8, 2007 12:05 PM

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