What Everyone Should Know About Science

The topic being adressed at Uncertain Principles, based on an idea from Michael Nielsen

1) Science is a Process, Not a Collection of Facts

2) Science is an essential human activity.

3) Anyone can do science.

infer some ellipses between those items; Chad goes into some detail about all of them.

Perhaps what science is not is important, too.

– Science doesn’t claim to have all the answers. Good thing, too, since we’d all be doing something else with our lives if everything had been answered.

– Science isn’t about faith (of the religious variety). Related to the above, but it’s important to know that science quantifies certainty and uncertainty. Having some uncertainty is not the same thing as having no certainty at all.

(what everyone should know about blogging: When in doubt, link to someone else)

Having Some Trouble

FYI, I’m having a smidgen of trouble uploading some files to the server for the posts I’m working on. (which is why some posts accessed through RSS won’t show up — they were published and then unpublished as I tried something out that didn’t work)

I know most men wouldn’t admit to having trouble uploading their files, or would try and brag about how many Megabytes they were. But I swear this has only happened once or twice before. It’s not you … it must be the stress.

edit: my “little problem” seems to have been fixed. Though if I keep uploading for four continuous hours, I’m supposed to consult my netdoctor.