Beyond the Rhetoric

Many words in the English language may have seemingly similar meanings, but this does not mean that you can use these words interchangeably. Venomous and poisonous do not have the same definition, so it’s important to know which word to use when. Similarly, many of the terms that you may encounter related to decontamination have [...]

“Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. [...]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I heard this quote the other night on Fringe when Walter exclaimed that someone close to him once said those words. They looked familiar, so I had to look up the source. Considering that he teamed up with Stanley Kubrick to write 2001: A Space Odyssey, I [...]