Date: 15/02/2017 02:51:46
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1024906
Subject: News
I am feeling too cynical.
Please find for me one article in the mainstream news media that doesn’t set my BS detector off.
ie. that doesn’t contain “spin”.
I am feeling too cynical.
Please find for me one article in the mainstream news media that doesn’t set my BS detector off.
ie. that doesn’t contain “spin”.
mollwollfumble said:
I am feeling too cynical.Please find for me one article in the mainstream news media that doesn’t set my BS detector off.
ie. that doesn’t contain “spin”.
I’m not doing your homework for you
:)
mollwollfumble said:
I am feeling too cynical.Please find for me one article in the mainstream news media that doesn’t set my BS detector off.
ie. that doesn’t contain “spin”.
Could do that I suppose.
Only problem is, I’m pretty sure our BS detectors have a pretty severe mis-alignment in their results.
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Bizarre metal conducts electricity without heating up
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Bizarre metal conducts electricity without heating upIn an apparent contradiction to textbook physics, a metal has been identified that conducts electricity but produces almost no heat in the process. Such a strange property may be expected to occur in conductors operating at cryogenic temperatures, but a team of researchers led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claims to have discovered this unique property in vanadium dioxide at temperatures of around 67 °C (153 °F).
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I wonder if it could be used for computer chips
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bizarre metal conducts electricity without heating upIn an apparent contradiction to textbook physics, a metal has been identified that conducts electricity but produces almost no heat in the process. Such a strange property may be expected to occur in conductors operating at cryogenic temperatures, but a team of researchers led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claims to have discovered this unique property in vanadium dioxide at temperatures of around 67 °C (153 °F).
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I wonder if it could be used for computer chips
I would say yes.
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Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bizarre metal conducts electricity without heating upIn an apparent contradiction to textbook physics, a metal has been identified that conducts electricity but produces almost no heat in the process. Such a strange property may be expected to occur in conductors operating at cryogenic temperatures, but a team of researchers led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claims to have discovered this unique property in vanadium dioxide at temperatures of around 67 °C (153 °F).
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I wonder if it could be used for computer chips
Unlikely, the conductivity is many order of magnitude less than that of common metals. And, although the heat generation is an order of magnitude less than what would be expected at this conductivity, it still generates much more heat than common metals carrying the same current.
I tend to stay away from political news.
To keep my sanity.
mollwollfumble said:
Cymek said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Bizarre metal conducts electricity without heating upIn an apparent contradiction to textbook physics, a metal has been identified that conducts electricity but produces almost no heat in the process. Such a strange property may be expected to occur in conductors operating at cryogenic temperatures, but a team of researchers led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claims to have discovered this unique property in vanadium dioxide at temperatures of around 67 °C (153 °F).
More…
I wonder if it could be used for computer chips
Unlikely, the conductivity is many order of magnitude less than that of common metals. And, although the heat generation is an order of magnitude less than what would be expected at this conductivity, it still generates much more heat than common metals carrying the same current.
The insulation-metal transition can be manipulated to exhibit semiconductor properties, and is used in some computer memory applications.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
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Marketing hype.
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Instead, the photo showed Hogan with one of her sons.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Cosmic Neutrino Detector Reveals Clues About Ghostly Particle Masses
Hey Crazy/Tau dude, you missed a trick there..
Cosmic Neutrino would the funkiest handle yet.
Ian said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Cosmic Neutrino Detector Reveals Clues About Ghostly Particle MassesHey Crazy/Tau dude, you missed a trick there..
Cosmic Neutrino would the funkiest handle yet.
ha!
Like it
mollwollfumble said:
I am feeling too cynical.Please find for me one article in the mainstream news media that doesn’t set my BS detector off.
ie. that doesn’t contain “spin”.
Spin can be annoying, but it isn’t BS. Not these days.
Spin is casting things in a certain light due to bias.
BS is saying “I never spoke to Putin” when in fact you’ve spoken to Putin several times, or that a milion and a half people attended an event that was attended by two hundred thousand humans.
It’s an important distinction.
mollwollfumble said:
I am feeling too cynical.Please find for me one article in the mainstream news media that doesn’t set my BS detector off.
ie. that doesn’t contain “spin”.
None of the following would really count as “mainstream news”.
Tau.Neutrino said:
The Brilliant Stars of Sagittarius Glitter for Hubble TelescopeThousands of stars and galaxies set a phenomenal backdrop in this Hubble Space Telescope image that includes a section of the constellation of Sagittarius.
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Nope. BS detector went off at “and the dramatic crosses that burst from the centers of the brightest bodies”. These are unwanted artefacts produced by the telescope imaging system.
Tau.Neutrino said:
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Yippee. BS detector wasn’t triggered.
Tau.Neutrino said:
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BS detector triggered by self contradictions. First time I’ve seen “a dozen” set equal to six.
Tau.Neutrino said:
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BS detector triggered by “For the first time”. There’s a scientific paper about this dated 1988.
Tau.Neutrino said:
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Excellent. BS detector not triggered, although “massive collaboration” is overstating things.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Physicists Make the Case That Our Brains’ Learning Is Controlled by EntropyThe way our brains learn new information has puzzled scientists for decades – we come across so much new information daily, how do our brains store what’s important, and forget the rest more efficiently than any computer we’ve built?
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Excellent. BS detector not triggered. Surprised, given the topic.
dv said:
Spin can be annoying, but it isn’t BS. Not these days.Spin is casting things in a certain light due to bias.
BS is saying “I never spoke to Putin” when in fact you’ve spoken to Putin several times, or that a milion and a half people attended an event that was attended by two hundred thousand humans.
It’s an important distinction.
I disagree with DV here. Any news article that deliberately implies – without explicitly stating – that something is true when it is not true then that’s BS in my book. I can think of many examples, including Bush’s famous “axis of evil” speech where he stated three unrelated facts and by saying them together implied without actually stating it that they were related. That’s still BS. When Howard deliberately quoted out of date data, that’s still BS. When someone leaves 3/4 of Australia’s gas supply out of the discussion of Australia’s gas supply, that’s still BS. When someone ascribes false motives to an opponent, that’s still BS. When as news program publishes a direct quote from a known radical racist then that’s still BS. When a news article says “some farmers consider orangutans to be pests. 5,000 are killed each year”, it’s technically true (5,000 pests are killed each year) but at the same time complete BS because it’s ambiguous and implies a falsehood.
The only distinction is whether you can sue the author, the distinction is not whether it is BS or not. Not one of the above six examples can be sued under libel laws because no false fact was explicitly stated. But they’re all BS.
Another type of BS is anything following a disclaimer, very popular five years ago but now fallen out of favour. I only remembered it because Adam Hills strung two disclaimers together “there may be – a rumour that” tonight. Anything after a disclaimer is likely to be BS, but nobody can sue for libel because of the disclaimer. Other disclaimers include “I have heard that” and “denied”.
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On another topic, am I the only person to notice a likely causal connection here:
3 days ago, North Korea launches a rocket. This is spun as an “intermediate range missile” by the press. Given the accuracy of the media lately, the whole story may be a complete fabrication, but that’s not the point.
2 days ago, Trump supports Japanese action against North Korea.
Today. Kim Jong-nam is murdered.
Looks like a causal connection to me.