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Cool new little Facebook feature (and unfriending) « Scobleizer
While Scoble’s hobnobbing with the Facebook CEO’s sister he might want to think about taking her to task about Facebook’s stigmatisation of breastfeeding as ‘obscene’.
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onlinefacilitation » Twitter Collaboration Stories
Every thing you ever needed to know about why Twitter is so fascinating.
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odd time signatures » Blog Archive » Anatomy of a Community Meltdown
Via Full Circle online – utterly fascinating.
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Gun-toting robots on patrol | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
Presumably, the Pentagon have never seen Robocop or they’d be a little more cautious about strapping large calibre weapons to robots. Ugh.
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Diluting the scientific method: Ars looks at homeopathy: Page 1
Ars Technica hates homeopathy. There’s a surprize.
links for 2007-09-15
Posted on September 15, 2007 by Michael Clarke
Homeopathy addresses so much more than physical manifestations of illness. Therefore saying things like “where mechanisms are suggested, they frequently violate our basic understanding of the natural world” is just silly. As if “our basic understanding” of anything is the only true way, and won’t ever change. These guys ever hear of string theory?
However, I’m not saying that the methods used by Homeopathy were sound according to the prevailing scientific method. If no current scientific process can measure the actual activity or process behind homeopathy, then they can still measure outcomes. Such experiments have been done on anthroposophical medicines in Europe, which are partially based on homeopathy.
I’m neutral about the issue, though I have to say that the Ars Technica people really gave the evidence presented a fairly thorough kicking! Though, I’m about as suspicious of positivist narratives in general as it’s possible to be without attempting to walk through walls some hegemonic discourse has constructed as “solid”.
i checked out the links these are really good !