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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
This crap just came out? After how many meetings I wonder over what time span? Whoever came up with it is far behind the times..... I doubt it is...
A few links for consideration from Lew Rockwell this morning: [Link] - The Heroic Anti-War Students [Link] - The Youth Are Precious There are some...
When in health, electricity, CHI, flows ORGANically. NatureAL. Ditch SUGAR.
VisitBritain needs to man up and call a powwow of its minority gurus of language so that they can walkthrough these lame guidelines with a sanity...
Current Lithium Mining in the world , produces 130,000 tonnes every year. An EV battery contains ~30lbs of lithium. Convert 1 metric ton to pounds...
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John of Salisbury used this phrase in a treatise on logic called Metalogicon, written in Latin in 1159. The gist of what Salisbury said is:
"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."
Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke in 1676, said:
"What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much in several ways, and especially in taking the colors of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
In a couple of million years, when humans are traveling the Galaxy, the descendants of today's monkeys will be building iPhones, Tesla cars and weapons of mass destruction.