Random Thoughts Thread

**Hooahguy** · 12-30-2016, 16:53

Academically this year was great. But for bascially everything else it sucked.

**HopAlongBunny** · 12-31-2016, 21:51

Science marches on!
World's smallest snowman:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ms-new-record/

Since it was done by a guy, he'll probably get a Nobel Prize; unlike the deserving (but female) Vera Rubin http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/10/vera-rubin

**Viking** · 01-09-2017, 18:17

Science with plot twists

Now something that remains is to take the article's own advice of fact-checking and apply it to the article itself and its references. Sounds like a good job for computer algorithms.

**Montmorency** · 01-09-2017, 19:48

Originally Posted by Viking

Science with plot twists

Now something that remains is to take the article's own advice of fact-checking and apply it to the article itself and its references. Sounds like a good job for computer algorithms.

Relevant on Sutton's rabbit hole (the spinach-checker/debunker source).

**Hooahguy** · 01-09-2017, 22:01

So the first day of my college class on Ancient Rome was cancelled today as they had a late start due to ice on the roads. Yes my state is that pathetic. So my professor for the class emails us this:

"Carissimi Discipuli (dear students),

The Romans wouldn't have canceled class over a little bit of ice. That's not how you build an empire, my friends."

**Viking** · 01-09-2017, 23:39

Originally Posted by Montmorency

Relevant on Sutton's rabbit hole (the spinach-checker/debunker source).

Already had a glance at it while (or was it after

) reading the paper, might give it a read.

On another note, wonder what would happen if one were to do the cite-check thing on some of these papers. Surely, a miscitation of crab and eel poetry would be autoethnographic in nature, revealing the subconscious of the author, and therefore to be studied by others. Maybe we could enter an endless loop of 'science' production if we reach a critical of mass of people writing about this paper and its derivatives.

Much better than untruths about spinach.

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

The Romans wouldn't have canceled class over a little bit of ice. That's not how you build an empire, my friends.

I wouldn't be so sure.

**Vuk** · 01-10-2017, 04:14

Women move either too fast or too slow...
They are either paranoid and overly cautious or they throw all caution to the wind and act like idiots...
God bless them, but I don't think I will ever understand what goes on in their minds.