Well, this applies more generally than just the Internet. What do you think, is she wrong???
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Samia was hacked off about something.
I know I recommended white science bloggers link to other bloggers in a show of link-lovin, but some of the stuff I see just seems tokenizing/LOOK AT ME I'M OPENMINDED! Ew. Fuck a bunch of wannabes.
This kinda got Isis hacked off.
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I think its pretty obvious to even the most casual observer of this blog, I am not a professional writer. I am a scientist-in-training who is madly in love with viruses, and wants the general public to understand how cool viruses are too, so I write this blag.
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UPDATE: There was a veritable blogswarm on this issue, and Shelley reports that it seems to have generated results. Although, I will note that "granting permission" is not quite the same thing as acknowledging that her original post fell under fair use.
Shelley Batts at Retrospectacle wrote a…
PhD thesis delight | Turning mirrors
"In the beginning vast public funding created heavenly lab-space on earth. Now the labs were formless and empty and the spirited physicists were contemplating over their future experiments. And they said let there be light and they built a grating stabilised…
Yes, she's wrong. She takes a few ideas that are likely true and possibly true and then takes these threads and tries to weave an entire wardrobe.
Looney Tunes is only funny to 6 year olds? Pretentious schmuck.
I like the imagery of a bubble of the present around us, and trying not to live that way because it makes us think whatever we're doing is right.
Reminds me of Marshall and Ted on How I Met Your Mother leaving their problems aside for those suckers, Future Marshall and Future Ted to solve.
The whole stand-up comedian thing she's got going seems kinda misplaced in a TED presentation. The rest was just meh.
Not only that, but Road Runners can barely fly (though they can kill snakes). And a window we could see perfectly out of our consciousness would be perfectly transparent, not translucent. Hah!
She is right about some things though, including the idea that being a little less afraid of being wrong lets you see otherwise hidden possibilities. I would add that being terrified of being wrong makes it almost impossible to think scientifically. You won't look for errors that you believe you can't possibly be making.
Oddly, I'm wondering if she always finds things the last place she looked.