The SCIENCE thread

[Alwin]

Linguist Noam Chomsky (1957) argued that human beings have an innate language-learning system (the LAD) which reacts to spoken language in the social environment (the LASS) of a child.

LAD = Language-Acquisition Device
LASS = Language-Acquisition Support System

Freud would argue that these abbreviations express Noam's attitude towards gender issues.

Anything science goes into this thread.

 

[Bambi]

 

[Don Corleone]

beaker!!

 

[StevenK]

my finger hurts

 

[breaklose]

i dunno if ive already said that here, but i was reading a book once, about men and women, i read just a tiny bit of it while i was staying in my mates place one morning. and anyway they said girls started to grow tits, because men need the sight of an arse to get excited. female monkeys havent grown tits because male monkeys keep doing them doggy style. but as men and women make love facing each other (supposedly), women needed to grow an ass on their chest. thats why you girls have tits.

 

[Palmer Eldritch]

Linguist Noam Chomsky (1957) argued that human beings have an innate language-learning system (the LAD) which reacts to spoken language in the social environment (the LASS) of a child.

I've read somewhere that his contribution to linguistics is so important, that you could divide the years in this field in BC (Before Chomsky) and AC (Anno Chomsky).

Freud would argue that these abbreviations express Noam's attitude towards gender issues.

Hihi. He should stick to politics. Not Freud, obviously.

 

[Strangelight]

I hate science me

 

[Palmer Eldritch]

I like science me

I particularly like Paul Feyerabend:

"Feyerabend objected to any single prescriptive scientific method on the grounds that any such method would limit the activities of scientists, and hence restrict scientific progress. New theories came to be accepted not because of their accord with scientific method, but because their supporters made use of any trick – rational, rhetorical or ribald – in order to advance their cause. Without a fixed ideology, or the introduction of religious tendencies, the only approach which does not inhibit progress (using whichever definition of progress you see fit) is "anything goes": "'anything goes' is not a 'principle' I hold... but the terrified exclamation of a rationalist who takes a closer look at history." (Feyerabend, 1975)."

 

[Bambi]

this is the only scientist you need

 

[snow2fall]

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

 

[bleed_black_orchid]

I got 2 B's in science.

non the less the most appealing thing on this page is beaker..

although mehdi's little contribution was mildly interesting. I have an arse on my chest. its something all girls need to know.

 

[breaklose]

you should feel proud about that.

 

[Don Corleone]

im studying science everyday...physics mostly...
ive had enough of it really

 

[my dying groom]

yeah at the moment I can't stand sophisticated shit
a good drink sounds better

 

[Maqus]

Yeah, I also noticed the Freudian slip in Mehdi's contribution, i.e. the merger of "arse" and "tits", whatever implications that brings.

Though I don't know why cows grow those huge arses on their abdominal part. Possibly to make men excited (about milk, of course). Which brings up the question: Do bulls make it "doggy" style too?

 

[Maqus]

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."

Darwin speaking here, I'm afraid he meant "humankind" instead of only referring to "men" as such. Which naturally leads us to the question: Do men (let alone women) like doing it "doggy" style?





"hmmm, yess" (Kate Bush)

 

[Maqus]

And finally, Jacques Derrida died a couple of days ago, R.I.P., Father of Deconstruction.

No bad jokes please.

 

[Alwin]

I like science me

I particularly like Paul Feyerabend:

"Feyerabend objected to any single prescriptive scientific method on the grounds that any such method would limit the activities of scientists, and hence restrict scientific progress. New theories came to be accepted not because of their accord with scientific method, but because their supporters made use of any trick – rational, rhetorical or ribald – in order to advance their cause. Without a fixed ideology, or the introduction of religious tendencies, the only approach which does not inhibit progress (using whichever definition of progress you see fit) is "anything goes": "'anything goes' is not a 'principle' I hold... but the terrified exclamation of a rationalist who takes a closer look at history." (Feyerabend, 1975)."

nice one - although it's tempting to agree with Feyerabend here, I do think a paradigm is valuable in the sense that it yields a framework within which scientists can discuss their work

but the disadvantages of paradigms usually dominate the discussion - whether that is reasonable I don't know

 

[Alwin]

Do bulls make it "doggy" style too?

have you ever seen them do it in a different way?

 

[Alwin]

Do men (let alone women) like doing it "doggy" style?

not my favourite