Maybe this is the truth. At least that's the experiment.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
<a href="http://scq.ubc.ca/?p=677">truth</a>Use this code as often as you can.
A while back, I wrote a post asking ScienceBloggers what they thought were successful tactics in the game of initiating forms of viral marketing. The question was primarily posed to ask whether such tricks…
Well, looky here now...
With the strength of the Science Scout initiative behind it, our little Truth experiment has finally hit front page google real estate.
That's right, people, we're hovering at a pretty nice ranking. What ranking is that you ask? Ta da.
Freaking number seven!
Which, of…
So... the SCQ is back from its summer hiatus, and needs to get rid of a 30G 5th generation video iPod. Sort of like this one:
And it actually couldn't be easier to win. Here are the details:
After a much need hiatus over the summer, the SCQ is back for it's third volume. We thought we would…
About the most useless game to play in discussions about global warming is to worry much about the distinctions between "proven facts", "theories", "hypotheses" and so on and so forth. These are ideas best left to philosophers and schoolmen. My image comes from the ever-helpful RS which is my…
Wierd, how out of all these points, it's the one about Wilco that seems to draw the most attention. Does that mean the other ones are good? Shouldn't there be a statement about the Arts in there somewhere?
I think it's because Wilco has nothing to do with science. All the rest of the points are hardly even arguable, well, they shouldn't be arguable. But Wilco being good, and sometimes exceptional, that's kind of a silly.
Things like "It's all relative" or "shit happens" seem to lessen the impact of some of the ones that kind of deal with social justice. Maybe this is like a meta-truth, which is why the dudes set it up to be editable.
Paul, you should see if something about invertebrates generally, or squids specifically can make the list. Like "Squids are way cooler than mice."
Actually make that "Squids are way way cooler than mice"
again i must intervene to put wilco's status as exceptional back onto the list of "universally agreed upon" facts. it is so. it is a truth. discussion to the contrary is what's silly. yes. this is so. oh coathangrrr. we feel for you.
"Squids are way way cooler than Wilco"
But seriously, I noticed that the first commenter had a problem with "Men and Women are Equal," and then lists a bunch of physical reasons. That kind of ticks me off.
Wilco? As in Roger-wilco, over-and-out?
I have no idea what "Wilco is good" even means.
Umm. The only Roger Wilco I care about is the one in the Seirra's Space Quest games. That one is a whoot! lol
Now, to get to something more serious:
"Why Do Good? Brain Study Offers Clues"
http://www.livescience.com/healthday/601147.html
Yeah, I don't particularily care for the phrase "it's all relative", even though there's a lot of truth in it. It almost undermines the other statements. One can start with rationality and decide, say, that "intelligent design is wrong" - relativism undermines that truth that's based in fact.
` I go to Mexico, I come back, and people are already editing the truth? WHAT'S GOIN' ON HERE?
Like some of you said, I don't really agree with the "it's all relative" and "Wilco is sometimes exceptional" ones, but I'm interested in memetics and the spread of internet cultural phenomena.
So I linked to it anyway.
Men and women are not equal. Duh.
It's quite simple: zero, undefined values, empty strings, empty arrays, and empty hashes are all false. Everything else is true.