Penny Can
The Lobby => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Mac on January 03, 2014, 10:17:13 am
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I thought maybe we could fit 'Science' stuff with the 'Space and Beyond' thread, but really... it's not and would be confusing down the road.
Thus The Science Thread
First off...
... This Creationism vs. Science. Religion and Science can be constantly at odds at times. I've always had a love for science and the more you find out about both science and religious beliefs, questions do come up. I personally think science and religion can co-exist. I am not blind sided by one or the other and just flat out deny the other. I like what Bill Nye had to say, except... I think children can handle Creationism and it is appropriate. I believe Bill Nye was speaking more towards the parenting teaching kids, nothing is acceptable except biblical thinking. :-\
Bill Nye: Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbYJfwFgOU
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Good thread. I'm all for Science getting it's own.
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I love the 'chemistry' between these two. Reminds me a tad of The Young Turks
anyway, check out this rather nerdy but interesting take on Electricity
Making Fractal Patterns with Electricity - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I1hV8_aL4w
She said: "I'm going to wet the wood"
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This is hilarious
How Chemicals Change Your Voice - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXhSWuEQYo
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Laughing Gas Infused C ocktails - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt3s2rQJ-3Q
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Walk on Eggs Like a Boss - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwO03zbqbK8
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Liquid Nitrogen BBQ - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvAOewM8U7w
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How to Break Glass with Your Voice - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZT7xO5KN4
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They both have a bunch of different "shows" over on Rev3 Games (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/the-best-tv-shows-on-the-internet/revision3/msg7087/#msg7087). I've always been a fan of Tara. Their shows have a wide range of topics from Games to Tech stuff.
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Making LED Street Art - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psbt2JvjWg0
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Steel Wool Sparklers - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6MX5uyXrb4
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Exploding Elephant Toothpaste - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Pl0WTkOBg
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I love seeing this. Theirs is cool.
Biking Across a Pool of Cornstarch - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BleCJJAKkgw
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Winter Sledding in the Summer - Hard Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmBnGH9cfjk
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Remember folks.... New Cosmos (http://www.cosmosontv.com/videos/37999683796)coming this Sunday
Hope I just remember the schedule
Sunday night (airing on Fox and then repeating on Monday nights on the National Geographic Channel).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFF2ECZ8m1A
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Creationist Outrage Over Cosmos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q109ZB8z6yo
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I'm Christian. I seriously don't understand what Christians are afraid of with Science
We Americans pride ourselves our ideals of free speech. We believe in spirited back-and-forth and the notion that we are all entitled to our opinions. We stack our media coverage of news events with “opposing views.” These ideals are deeply rooted in our cultural character. And they’re making us stupid.
Ever since it debuted earlier this month, Neil deGrasse Tyson blockbuster, multi-network reboot of “Cosmos” has been ruffling feathers with its crazy, brazen tactic of putting scientific facts forward as the truth. It’s infuriated religious conservatives by furthering “the Scientific Martyr Myth of Giordano Bruno” within its “glossy multi-million-dollar piece of agitprop for scientific materialism.” And this weekend, creationist astronomer and Answers in Genesis bigwig Danny Faulkner complained about “Cosmos” on “The Janet Mefferd Show” that “Creationists aren’t even on the radar screen; they wouldn’t even consider us plausible at all” and that “Consideration of creation is definitely not up for discussion,” leading to Mefferd to suggest equal time for the opposing views. But on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” last week, Neil deGrasse Tyson shrugged off the naysayers, noting, “If you don’t know science in the 21st century, just move back to the cave, because that’s where we’re going to leave you as we move forward.” This is he’s a treasure — he has proven himself a consistent and elegant beacon of how to respond to extremists and crazy talk – by acknowledging it but not wasting breath arguing it.
We can go round and round in endless circles about social and philosophical issues. We can debate all day about matters of faith and religion, if you’re up for it. But well-established scientific principles don’t lend themselves well to conversations in which I say something based on hard physical evidence and carefully analyzed data, and then you shoot back with a bunch of spurious nonsense.
This idea that we somehow have to be “fair” about everything is how we wind up having Bill Nye getting into public discussions about climate change, a spectacle my colleague Daniel D’Addario recently noted mistakenly gives the whole fiasco attention and credibility “as an entertaining, wacky debate between two personalities.” It’s how we wind up continuing on in a nation in which three out of ten people take the Bible literally, and an alarming nearly 40% believe in intelligent design. Roughly 18% of Americans believe the sun revolves around the earth Should we have a debate about it? Should we hear out the “sun revolves around the earth” faction?
In our zeal for balance, we have allowed ignorance to be perpetuated. We send our kids to schools where the “Christian Perspective” is given weight as historical fact. We talk about the “debate” over climate change as if it’s a “debate” and not a scientifically supported serious warning. We let other people’s ignorant arrogance run roughshod over our own misguided attempts at open-mindedness.
“Cosmos” isn’t trying to pick a fight. It’s a love letter to the triumph of investigation over superstition. It’s not perpetuating an agenda, other than maybe Neil deGrasse Tyson’s perfectly sane advice that you “don’t try to use the Bible as a textbook.” Or as Carl Sagan once said, “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
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I'm watching COSMOS and it's an interesting show. I don't agree with everything that is being said, but there are parts of it I really like and other parts....not so much.
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Amplifying Bubbles with Fire, Fog, and Lube
Yes... lube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6nnCGOIA9M
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Visualizing Dubstep with a Tube of Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gCKlWi8hJA
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I'm glad you posted this because there has been a major revamp over at Revision and one of the channels they got rid of was Hard Science.