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Date: July 8th, 2008

Units, Units, Who’s Got the Units?

8 July, 2008 (03:38) | Humor, Physics | 2 comments

Via Symmetry Breaking, I discover the link to Sensible Units, which uses a unique definition of sensible. Type in a distance, and you might get the equivalent in AA batteries end-to-end or Alaskan moose antler spans. Or find a weight in equivalent average housecats.
Then there is the List of unusual units of [...]

Verus scientia

8 July, 2008 (03:38) | Antiscience, Science-general | 1 comment

How to identify real science, the better to filter out antiscience.
What is REAL science?
REAL science…
Recognizes its limits - Science only works with phenomena that can be independently verified by observations or empirical tests. This is a practical approach to the study of the natural world that has proven to be extremely conducive to the advancement [...]

 

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