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'Alternative medicine'

Postmodernism Disrobed: (via Richard Dawkins) richarddawkins.com/articles/artic…

Postmodernism has taken a deep truth from Popperian epistemology (namely experience is theory-laden and needs to be criticised), misunderstood it, and used it to justify the opposite (experience is infallible and mustn't be criticised).

If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet, less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

My (brief) thoughts on the definition of AGI, why we aren't there yet, and what is missing. Will be writing a short and succinct essay on this important topic soon.

Who’s more humble? #CarlSagan

A galactic tilt-a-whirl 🌀 Located 43 million light-years away, the galaxy NGC 3511 appears tilted in this new #HubbleFriday view. Hubble observed NGC 3511 as part of a survey of the star formation cycle in (relatively) nearby galaxies: go.nasa.gov/3FnweD8

It’s all about perspective 🪐 Our Cassini spacecraft used its narrow-angle camera to capture this view of Saturn and its rings. Two of Saturn’s moons, Mimas and Janus, are pictured “above” the rings, while a crescent Tethys appears “below.” Learn more: go.nasa.gov/45uBkb8

NGC 6872 is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the known universe. At over 520,000 light-years across, it's more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. This incredible image combines X-ray light from Chandra with optical light from Hubble. 🌀

There’s mystery in the universe. There are unanswered questions. There are known unknowns and probably lot more unknown unknowns 🪐🔭 A religious leader creating fridge magnet with your favourite religious symbol out of thin air is not one of those mysteries 🚫

"Science is one gigantic error correction mechanism where we try to find out all our misconceptions, and we're expecting even our most cherished beliefs eventually to turn out to be flawed in some way or another. So we have to be open to that, and we have to be ready to cope with

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. - Carl Sagan

It’s one of the great ironies of modern discourse: many self-declared far-left “liberals” frequently exhibit a affection/fascination for some of the most illiberal and intolerant ideas and even end up romanticising them — often cloaking them in the language of liberation and