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Happy New Science Year!!! Celebrity Science Stumbles, TWIS Recaps 2011 Predictions, Predicts 2012, And Much More…
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Swaddled in election year politics,
Nursing on the bosom of post war recovery
The newborn year has arrived
And the future looks bright by the light of those eyes…
Even with a diaper full of debt
The new year offers new opportunities to engage in humanity’s most sacred of duties.
To learn… to teach what we have learned… and to pursue new knowledge
For just like a newborn baby, knowledge is a living thing.
And just like human reproduction, knowledge must constantly be reproduced in order to survive.
It must be communicated in order continue, encouraged in order to grow, and performed in order thrive.
When we do this, the knowledge of one becomes the knowledge of the many.
There is then no greater principal we can aspire to than this.
To produce more than we consume.
It is a method and model of intellectual sustainability that we seek to engage in each week here on
This week in science… coming up next.
Some celebrity science stumbles
We also recapped our 2011 predictions… just how well did we do???
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We predict the science for 2012! Let us know what you think below…
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Hi , first time on this site, and I must say looks impressive. Pleased to make your e-qaintance.
Corny word I know, but it seems fitting for this era of digital social interaction.
So am I to understand your definition of progress is knowledge?
It is common sense that it is an inevitable outcome of evolution, so my question is , “why is the outcome of natural evolution to be the goal”.
Let me confuse the question a bit for the sake of debate.
Now , “is knowledge a process or an outcome??
I have my theory, but will contribute if we can get a debate going.
Cheers Have a nice day
Re Archie
Just a quick comment on your hosts view about electric vs. gasoline cars. He discounts the extreme difference in efficiencies between the two. Electric vehicles can achieve efficiencies in the 90th percentile while internal combustion engines are still stuck below 35%. In terms of energy used and carbon emitted this means that electric vehicles are still superior with regards to climate change.
Thanks for the great show!
Justin: About your response to someones prediction that 2012 will be the year of the electric car, where you said you hope not.
So you think it’s better to keep burning gasoline and not give more reasons to abandon coal? Surely you realize that not 100% of electricity comes from coal, right? That was the single most absurd thing I’ve ever heard you say.
For one, the people opting to buy an electric car are gonna be the ones who are already aware enough to get green electricity – and especially those who are already 100% green with their own solar/wind.
Thank’s for an otherwise great show!
Regards,
Mikael Grön of Sweden.
Justin, you said “100 gigabyte” but you must have meant “100 gigabit”. There is only an 8 fold difference.
Justin,
You are wrong. Electric cars are are better (even when coal powered) than gasoline powered cars. Research it, see what The Sierra Club and the American Lung Association and actual studies have found rather than you incorrect from the hip statements! Point: Gasoline refining uses ELECTRICITY, about 6kWh per gallon. So an electric cars cut out that process and all the pollution associated with the gas, drilling, spilling, and burning, while using that same amount of electricity per mile.
That said, I agree that we need more renewable electricity generation, but EVs do not need to wait for it. Related: EV drivers are far more likely to be solar panel owners or buy renewable energy from their utility provider.
Bill O’Reilly was publicly countered by Neil Tyson on The Colbert Report. His (Bill’s) response was simply along the lines of, “Well, then who put the moon there?” He went on to ask the ‘pinheads’ why Mars and Mercury don’t have moons…
A real gem, that one.