analysis

In this thread gravy will elaborate on the following: Jessicarabbit: I would like to see your analysis of the total collapse after initiation please gravy. Gravy: Millions of pounds of building fell, destroying the structure below. Gravy mentions papers by Bazant and Greening. I would like...

jessicarabbit is dissatisfied with the papers I referred her to Gravy: Why would you ask a tour guide for a scientific analysis of the collapse of the towers? You've already been referred to Bazant & Zhou (2001), Bazant (2006), Greening (2005-6). Your refutation of their work? Your experts...

If you've got it, post it here. I reiterate OBJECTIVE evidence only, and remember; explosives cause explosions, but not all explosions are caused by explosives. I await the evidence.

There was some discussion recently about a study showing substantial differences between Neanderthal DNA and human DNA, and what that study actually means. The study in question examined mitochondrial DNA recovered from neanderthal remains and compared it to human mitochondrial DNA. It showed a...

I showed my high school physics students a few clips from TAM4. 1. Randi floats Ed Lu on stage. Morning classes couldn't figure out the trick; afternoon classes could! 2. Richard Wiseman's Magic Circle: showed them the whole thing from the first paper toss to the final ovation. The funny thing...

This occurred to me while reading the ongoing threads about the nature of 30C homepathic remedies etc. It's quite clear from reading those threads that the homepaths are never going to log in here one day and say 'oops, I've been prescribing water for the last ten years and all those positive...

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I need to identify a fluffy, white powdery substance I have. The material is extremely light weight and if you play around with it enough it seems to exhibit signs of being energetically charged somehow. It likes to stick to stuff and seems to jump away from itself when you break it up and push...

Can someone briefly explain to me the connection between "regression to the mean" in the sense of extreme excursions tending over generations to return to nearer the mean value and "regression analysis" in the sense of fitting lines through scatter plots? I believe the maths of the former led to...

Free Speech TV is showing an excellent analysis of the War on Terror, Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and how the Bush Administration is going wrong. It's called "How - and How Not - To Fight Terrorism" and it's a talk given at the Independent Institute covering what the terrorists want, what the...

Bogus, valid, or both (ie some are valid some are bogus), anyone know? Specifically, this place... http://www.interclinical.com.au/ They do hair analysis. Does anyone with any experience in this have some facts? Thanks muchly. I am also looking into Dr David L. Watts who is their Director...

This is my second post of the same topic; the first time I had posted, it never came up. So if this post comes up as a duplicate, my apologies... In response to his latest commentary on the 10 year old grilled cheese sandwhich with a purported image of the Virgin Mary being sold on Ebay, I was...

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This post is addressed to news junkies, anyone with an interest in fairness in the media, and/or database nerds. Suppose one wanted to quantify biases / tendencies on TV news by boiling down news and news-like programs to detailed hard facts. Suppose there is a detailed database that catalogs...

Why the Bush Doctrine is dead http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/02/1064988339740.html

I have to write a paper critically examing Austin's analysis of the problem of other minds.... I was wondering what key points I should touch and what advice anyone could offer me. Thanks for any help. :)