Science is the human enterprise that is based on knowledge, skill, and practice in combination with a discipline that allows either prediction or predictable outcomes. Research is the method that is used to gain knowledge in an organized way, using highly organized…
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In the philosophical sense, empiricists follow the claim that all of our knowledge and concepts are the product of our sensory experience, or that sensory experience is the ultimate source of all of our knowledge and concepts. In comparison, rationalists…
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Question: What do pet food bowls, a wok and air cylinders for scuba diving all have in common? Answer: They are all made by the same manufacturing process – metal spinning. Metal spinning, or more precisely, spin forming, is a…
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Is science overlooking the paranormal phenomenon? I don’t know if you can really answer that question fully. There are plenty of shows that delve into the paranormal, and they involve scientific methods of researching the paranormal. There are so many…
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It would be incredibly exciting to consider research that is free of the two disasters of value: assigning arbitrary values in order to quantify something that should not be quantified, and eliminating bias and cognitive error that originates in the…
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This one always tickles me; in fact I am sat at my desk chuckling away to myself reading some of the articles offered up by many esteemed writers, who actually believe this piffle. This drives me to attack this debate…
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As we progress into the future, our technology allows us to provide answers to many questions that were once unanswerable. Take for instance the vast distances between galaxies, as well as the galaxies themselves. We can at least take a…
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Tickling is something very familiar yet very mysterious; so what it tickling all about? Tickling is enjoyable for some people and agony for others and yet either way tickling makes you laugh –if you are ticklish; it is unique in…
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We often hear the phrase “that’s OK in theory”, and we all recognise that there is a difference between something we might think is true, and whether or not it really is. Learning the difference between a thought, an idea…
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The idea of robots taking over the world is a laughable concept when presented with the front of machines actually making decisions, acting of their own accord, and being unstoppable. There is a lot of fear in the world about…
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