Comments on: Where the Denialists Are

By: amgrubb

amgrubb — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:23:19 +0000

I really like this poem/post. It’s cute and makes an important point. I feel like it could be used as an introductory allegory to a case study on sharing.

By: paulina

paulina — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:16:30 +0000

For those who haven’t seen it:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00656/Cartoon_656336a.jpg

By: lynne

lynne — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:12:41 +0000

I’d tend to agree, Italics-in-#3, VERY. Tx for noticing the link.
[for any curious visitor=FB member - there's a FB group SHAP on the subject]

If H&P of *** (courses teach to) theorize about “consequences” of commercialization, incl. w.r.t. education, they’d be sadly out of tune with items holding pride of place in UT’s *Toward 2030* Financial Model (cf. b) & Strategic Qs, bottom of pg)

Especially if any biz orientation is essentialized as either + or -, per familiar problematic binarism, which may be as devastating(!) in real life as it appears to be handy(?)/justified(?) in theorizing/modelling. Cf. H&PSci.

By: Carbon Fixated » Blog Archive » CRU email theft perspectives

Carbon Fixated » Blog Archive » CRU email theft perspectives — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:29:11 +0000

[...] Is there really a place where the denialists aren’t? [...]

By: Open Climate Science or Denial of Service attacks? | Serendipity

Open Climate Science or Denial of Service attacks? | Serendipity — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:20:43 +0000

[...] wasn’t going to post anything about the CRU emails story (apart from my attempt at humour), because I think it’s a non-story. I’ve read a few of the emails, and it looks no [...]

By: lynne

lynne — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:00:36 +0000

an update, eh? this would be a good one to pull off during a potentially de-constructive peer review. Quite pull-able, too – what with online review-support applications – cf. OJS

I’ll be generous and say: link much appreciated, same as link to “Stop the numbers game” by David Lorge Parnas a month ago http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1297797.1297815 Author tellingly affiliated to Uni of *Limerick*. SS since I do not LOL.

By: lynne

lynne — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:39:19 +0000

A poke or 2…:

Re “PS, if you’ve no idea what this is referring to, trust me, you’re better off not knowing” – hmmm. Would that be because the info overload is so huuugely tremendous? Or is it a(n unintended – 1 would hope?) subversion of Hist&Phil of Science? I thought we were locally only getting rid of Hist&Phil of Education – just like Harvard? Cf. http://savethehumanitiesoise.wordpress.com/

PS BTW, congrats on the 1st Serendipity post ever in the “Humour” category! Admirable serious-SE fortitude until after the 100th post. (yep, there’s a pun in here)

[Ahh, the information overload reason. The whole affair should be an essential case study in history and philosophy of science courses. Thx for the pointer to the HPE issue - without knowing more about it, that sound like a very bad decision -- Steve]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:28:39 +0000

The hockey stick! Come on! A 10 year old paper! The hockey stick! Even though the same thing appears and is confirmed 5 years later in another paper! Anyways lets go back 10 years and keep picking on this hockey stick! Sure I don’t know what PCA means or any of that, nor do I understand the difference between instrumental records and tree ring records but I know what a hockey stick is!

Please excuse me while I fill your blog with aggressive comments.

[lol - steve]

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:22:36 +0000

Looks like we need some kind of silent revolution and simply start changing without pointing to the green aspect. In fact I just read an very interesting article about the inability of humans to actually grasps catastrophic events that are about to happen, just like we are unable to grasps death.
here the article, sorry its in German thus the Google translate link http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stern.de%2Fwissen%2Fmensch%2Fkopfwelten-warum-katastrophengeschrei-keiner-glaubt-1524375.html%23utm_source%3Dstandard%26utm_medium%3Drss-feed%26utm_campaign%3Dalle&sl=de&tl=en