Spock and the Inquirer reporter are typical of Skinner’s critics in their ignorance of his work, yet Skinner’s theory was at its core so simple that it sounds purely commonsensical today: all organisms tend to do what the world around them rewards them for doing.
The group hopes that eventually thousands of sites–including those as small as a single user’s Tumblr page–will join the project.
Count me in.
Apparently, I should be reading wired science more often. I’m a little Kate to the game on this one too. Sharing in case you haven’t seen it. This is amazing stuff. We are on the edge of furthering our understanding of quantum physics to a useable point.
[…] although there are clearly reasons other than climate change—ocean acidification, energy security, extending the lifetime of finite resources—for promoting efficiency and green energy.
This point is clearly lost on some.
Energy from incoming photons could simultaneously explore every possible chlorophyll route from a protein’s surface to the reaction center at its core, then settle on the shortest path.
I know I’m a few months late on this one, but the consequences of this are amazing.
It’s official. I look forward to see how Google influences hardware design.
Although we cannot infer a causal relationship between coffee drinking and lower risk of death, we believe these results do provide some reassurance that coffee drinking does not adversely affect health.
In other words, hey parents, stop buying your kids soda and candy!
This is one part of our (USA) culture I dislike, this Puritan weirdness about the human body. Get over it! It’s nothing to be ashamed of. It isn’t healthy to deny your feelings about something. Acknowledge them and move on.
I say “our culture” because, as far as I know, most European countries don’t seem to have these issues.
Like surgery, this seems to attack one aspect of an unhealthy lifestyle. It could give people the false impression that they can eat whatever they want and not worry about their health. What about heart disease, cancer, etc? This isn’t attacking the problem at its source.
