Interesting article in Science

[chickened]

You still would not believe it. Me thinks. What did you do before the internet when proof was not a click away?
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Amazing. Where do you do your reading? East Anglica University, NASA and NOAA all presented skewed information, to push the global warming/ cap and trade agenda. Sorry you missed it, but the whole thing has quietly been swept under the rug, because it has become a huge embarrassment to the "scientific community". We were constantly hammered with "Global Warming". When that didn't fly, it became "Climate Change." Now, it has siliently faded into the background, except for the diehard radicals, who just can't take no for an answer.

Oh, yeah. Now, we are finding out the the sun is the major cause of global warming....Duh!

Just give me some links. Credible links.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

I think you may need to go a little deeper in your thought process to grip what I am actually referring to here you obviously are thinking of the phsyical.

How so? Please, describe.

This is in contrast to an "all or nothing" approach, whereby the shape of the curve is claimed to be known in its entirety by some other method. Following an "all or nothing" approach, all science would need to do to disprove this curve is to disprove one single point. In other words, if someone says "everything is known correctly" all I'd have to do is find one mistake to denounce the entire claim. That's a very fragile place on which to make a stand.

Woah, that was a pretty awesome verbal illustration. I've never thought of it in those terms before.​

 

[chickened]

Cancer is a very interesting thing, I am not really sure it is a disease by definition. Old age is the death of cells at a rate not exceded by creation of replacement cells if I remember correctly. Now cancer is the replacement of healthy cells by cancerous cells and when the immune system loses that battle we die. I really do not want to finish the thought on this publicly as to not offend any cancer patients but it is similar in design to another ailment.
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[chickened]

Well lets use your ant analogy, you said "For instance, searching to understand and categorize various ant species and how they relate to each other is not something that smacks me in the face as being motivated by fear. " What purpose to study this would you give? the simple fact that you really are doing this for just fun? I think not I think the real reason is to control them when they threaten you or you fear them to some degree. People study sharks so they can better understand them but the real reason is so they can enter the water with them with some assurance that they will be better equipped to defend themselves from them or not kill them in self defense, again it stems from fear of them, the honest person says I will stay out of the water thankyou very much. You would understand this I think a little better if you really learn to recognise fear and how man reacts to it, some ways are very suttle. Thes are just hunches but I think you fear being wrong, fearing rejection and fearing lonliness. Again this is just a hunch.
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How so? Please, describe.

This is in contrast to an "all or nothing" approach, whereby the shape of the curve is claimed to be known in its entirety by some other method. Following an "all or nothing" approach, all science would need to do to disprove this curve is to disprove one single point. In other words, if someone says "everything is known correctly" all I'd have to do is find one mistake to denounce the entire claim. That's a very fragile place on which to make a stand.

Woah, that was a pretty awesome verbal illustration. I've never thought of it in those terms before.​

 

[punk-a-doodle]

I think not I think the real reason is to control them when they threaten you or you fear them to some degree.

Yeaaaaaah, considering how much I've always enjoyed poking through the dirt to find ants (and other insects/organisms) and watch them...probably don't wake up in terror at night. Can't sleep, the ants will get me.
I really do hope you start to recognize how being genuinely interested in the world around you and how it works is not the same as being afraid of it.

Thes are just hunches but I think you fear being wrong, fearing rejection and fearing lonliness. Again this is just a hunch.

...Interesting analysis.

I'm still not sure how this elaborates upon:

I think you may need to go a little deeper in your thought process to grip what I am actually referring to here you obviously are thinking of the phsyical.​

 

[chickened]

Humor... another way of coping with fear.

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Yeaaaaaah, considering how much I've always enjoyed poking through the dirt to find ants (and other insects/organisms) and watch them...probably don't wake up in terror at night. Can't sleep, the ants will get me.
I really do hope you start to recognize how being genuinely interested in the world around you and how it works is not the same as being afraid of it.

Thes are just hunches but I think you fear being wrong, fearing rejection and fearing lonliness. Again this is just a hunch.

...Interesting analysis.

I'm still not sure how this elaborates upon:

I think you may need to go a little deeper in your thought process to grip what I am actually referring to here you obviously are thinking of the phsyical.
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[punk-a-doodle]

Society is deeply fearful of stand-up comedians (well...Carrot Top is pretty scary) and videos of kittens. And ants.

Interestingly, smiles, laughter and humor can have ties to fear, anxiety, and aggression. That said, there are different groupings of humor, and some are more tied to these things than others, and I'd imagine involve different brain regions or different levels of impact. Some forms of humor increase a sense of well being or connection, for instance, where as some seem to be used more as a distancing strategy. There are quite a bit of studies out there on laughter and humor, though it is generally regarded as an area that is still not well understood. Rats and their 'laugh' (particular noise emitted when pleasurable activities mean the stimulation of dopamine reward circuits) were documented in one study, and may help us begin to understand the basis for things such as laughter or humor.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432800002382
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938403001598
The question marks that abound in the titles should help show what stage we are in scientifically understanding these topics.

 

[Royd]

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Amazing. Where do you do your reading? East Anglica University, NASA and NOAA all presented skewed information, to push the global warming/ cap and trade agenda. Sorry you missed it, but the whole thing has quietly been swept under the rug, because it has become a huge embarrassment to the "scientific community". We were constantly hammered with "Global Warming". When that didn't fly, it became "Climate Change." Now, it has siliently faded into the background, except for the diehard radicals, who just can't take no for an answer.

Oh, yeah. Now, we are finding out the the sun is the major cause of global warming....Duh!

Just give me some links. Credible links.

I already told you that I don't do links. You claim to be the researcher here. I have presented you with the info. It's a keyboard away. The Global Warming argument has been squelched by the very community which tried to foist it upon the public at large, because we just aren't as gullible as percieved, by the intellectuals.

Put simply, the scientific community needs to quit wasting the publics' money chasing rainbows. Speaking of which, when you fall into a cloud, why is there a 360 degree rainbow around your shadow? Now, that's the way to chase a rainbow.

 

[Royd]

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Yeaaaaaah, considering how much I've always enjoyed poking through the dirt to find ants (and other insects/organisms) and watch them...probably don't wake up in terror at night. Can't sleep, the ants will get me.
I really do hope you start to recognize how being genuinely interested in the world around you and how it works is not the same as being afraid of it.

Thes are just hunches but I think you fear being wrong, fearing rejection and fearing lonliness. Again this is just a hunch.

...Interesting analysis.

I'm still not sure how this elaborates upon:

I think you may need to go a little deeper in your thought process to grip what I am actually referring to here you obviously are thinking of the phsyical.
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And if you did it on your own time and dime, then you are the true scientist. I, too, am a scientist. I am studying the means to have peaceful coexistance between the gardener and the chickens....So far, the chickens are winning. If only I could get a $100,000 grant, I think I could find the answer.​

 

[punk-a-doodle]

What you are talking about isn't a rainbow (though there are circular/360 degree rainbows that you can see, and technically all rainbows are a full circle). The phenomenon of which you speak is often called a 'glory' or 'Buddha's halo/light'. To observe it, sunlight, water droplets, and observers must all be in line (which is why they are most often observed from a height such as a plane or mountain). Similar to how everyone sees a slightly 'different' rainbow depending on where they are standing, each observer will only see the glory around their own shadow, even if standing side by side with others. http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2002/02/the-glory.html

The science behind it doesn't make them any less beautiful though:

EDIT: Wow, did I just try to quote a photo link instead of it? Yes, yes I did.
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