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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 13, 2020 0:06:54 GMT
It's here people, after much demand!
Share your fun science facts here all week.
I discovered tonight that computer chips are made from silicon sausages.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 13, 2020 7:34:02 GMT
Science Week!
I learnt recently, that if you fall into a black hole, you're served a lovely spaghetti based meal! It's quite bizzar. Spaghettification it's called.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2020 10:45:48 GMT
MAXIMILLIAN LIVES IN HELL INSIDE THE BLACK HOLE!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 13, 2020 17:23:10 GMT
Eating spaghetti.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2020 21:26:48 GMT
Every week is science week for me. Doing evolution at the moment.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2020 21:41:04 GMT
This week I am doing Decartes.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 13, 2020 21:42:27 GMT
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
Martin
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Post by Benn on Jan 13, 2020 21:44:30 GMT
I hope we are all wearing our white sciencing coats this week!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2020 21:47:03 GMT
Blackwells currently has them on sale!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 13, 2020 21:47:57 GMT
Tempting... tempting...
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2020 22:02:18 GMT
I fear even the power of the white coat won't help ten year olds properly understand what adaptation is.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 13, 2020 22:49:44 GMT
Don't do it people. Most scientists don't wear them and they have been shown to put off and negatively lower kids impressions of science.
Hence why there are active campaigns against propagating the stereotype of scientists = white coats.
It's bad enough we have a government that doesn't support science without Hubbers teaming up with them!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2020 22:52:47 GMT
At my previous school the Science Dept all had very natty individually coloured lab coats. Pink, blue, green, everything. They looked really cool.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2020 22:55:41 GMT
Most scientists don't wear them and they have been shown to put off and negatively lower kids impressions of science. Isn't negatively lowering the same as raising? |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 13, 2020 22:58:31 GMT
It's doubly lowering! Don't come in here with your fancy pancy language correction like some sort of humanities expert during Science Week!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 13, 2020 23:01:53 GMT
What on Earth do humanities teachers know about language?! Next you'll be telling me PE teachers can spell.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 13, 2020 23:06:54 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 14, 2020 6:11:26 GMT
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2020 7:49:12 GMT
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Post by Benn on Jan 14, 2020 13:12:53 GMT
Is a white coat suitable for MAD SCIENCE?
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 14, 2020 14:21:50 GMT
I would have thought it's compulsory.
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Post by Benn on Jan 14, 2020 16:15:23 GMT
That’s what I was thinking, but you wouldn’t want to be confused for a normal scientician.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 14, 2020 17:31:45 GMT
Don't do it people. Most scientists don't wear them and they have been shown to put off and negatively lower kids impressions of science. It's not white coats that give scientists a bad name. It's Evil Scientists. Speaking of which... Martin |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2020 17:38:28 GMT
Is a white coat suitable for MAD SCIENCE? Who can forget the white coat scientist Remans in Star Trek: Nemesis? -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 14, 2020 18:55:11 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2020 20:31:17 GMT
Descartes is now my favourite philosopher as unlike the others he can actually write a sentence.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 17, 2020 9:22:52 GMT
Two weeks to go till Brexit. I work in finance at a major UK university. We still have no idea what government policy will be for all the EU funded research grants and staff and students as of 1st Feb other than that they will no longer have funding unless UKRI steps in. Other than vague suggestions that they intend to we have nothing to go on.
Suspect there will be much frantic auditing of our EU projects for most of Feb-March. The sort of thing that UKRI should've been asking for months ago but they seem to have even less of an idea of government policy than we do. I only have about a dozen or so that I look after out of about 60 projects but other departments are much more reliant on EU funding.
Fun times. Inconvenient for me but potentially career/job ending for those caught up at the sharp end of it all.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2020 10:29:57 GMT
But...Big Ben might ring at the "time of Brexit"!!! Surely that makes it all worth it!!!*
TO LONDONNNNN. BRITAINNNNNNN!!!
-Ralph
*sarcasm
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jan 17, 2020 18:14:47 GMT
No it won't. There is a dastardly Remainer plot afoot to stop the bongs! The tabloids can see straight through the whole 'restoration works or Parliament seeks into the Thames' fake story. Remainers have been plotting this for years!
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 17, 2020 21:09:48 GMT
WHAT.
Fortmaxuserbercow works in... Finance?
What about the sciencing?
Is the sciencing... A lie?
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