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Our presentation on climate change and adaptation at Ag Days youtube.com/watch?v=t_4-HZ…

Scientific communication at its finest 😊

Snowmelt sampling our 4R P experiment ⁦Henry Wilson⁩ ⁦AAFC Canada⁩ ⁦Agritruth Research Inc.⁩

"Everybody's been trained in high school and college that you have to answer the question. It's convergence logic. You can't tell a professor '"your question is dumb" or you'll get a bad grade. You have to answer the question. So without knowing it, people have mental straight

Three principles: ✍️ • the conformability of nature to herself, • the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and • the "unreasonable effectiveness" of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality are thus consequences of the underlying law of the

A powerful lesson on luck that everyone needs to hear: In 2003, Dr. Richard Wiseman published The Luck Factor, which explored why some people consistently get lucky while others struggle with bad luck their whole lives. He gathered participants for several simple experiments:

Einstein's Philosophy of science 💭 The theory of relativity is a beautiful example of the basic character of the modern development of theory. That is to say, the hypotheses from which one starts become ever more abstract and more remote from experience. But in return one comes

Interesting article published in RealAgriculture. During last month's 4R Day at #InnovationFarmsMB, the Enns Brothers agronomy team shared insights from a four-year study on nitrogen uptake and mineralization in wheat fields across the province. buff.ly/3PkZFI3 #CdnAg

Les Henry “As long as crop returns are greater than cropping costs & our soils are improving, we are sustainable. All the current buzzwords like soil health, sustainable, resilient, cover crops, need a serious rework to get in touch with reality.” grainews.ca/columns/les-he…

Given the recent public demonstrations of intolerance I thought I would share the following quote from Karl Popper. Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who /1

/2 are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of /3

/3 of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that/4

/4 they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument,/5

/5 because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant/6

/6 We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal,/7

/7 in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal./8

/8 Popper, Karl Raimund. The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton Classics Book 115) (p. 581). Princeton University Press.

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