Generally general.

Moderator: Mods

User avatar
Liquidprism
Lost Soul
Posts: 1509
Joined: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:40 pm
Location: Behind You...

Post by Liquidprism »

All things in moderation...Except syrup.

<a href="http://www.wizards.com/magic/playmagic/ ... areyou.asp" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/wha ... isblue.jpg" border="0">
<b>Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.</b></a>
User avatar
rydi
Site Admin
Posts: 4063
Joined: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:29 pm

Post by rydi »

interesting article, and it details something that scientists tend to forget: we don't know what we're describing.

We feel around in the dark, trying to make out our surroundings, but when we turn on the lights, we often get a very different picture of the room we are in. What if we can't turn on the lights? We may end up with a permanently distorted, but highly functional, view of the room. We end up becoming experts on navigating it, on it's contents, and so on, but there are things we miss, sometimes profound things. We make do with theories that allow us to function in the room, but those theories are often just partial understandings of what is really going on, and sometimes they are largely wrong, though they allow us to work in a narrow range of conditions accurately.

Scientists, perhaps more than others ironically, forget that their data describes not the whole picture, but merely a small part of the totality of a complex interactive system we think of collectively as reality.
Threading the Gerbil since 1982

Image
User avatar
Liquidprism
Lost Soul
Posts: 1509
Joined: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:40 pm
Location: Behind You...

Post by Liquidprism »

Yeah! What Cheyne said.
All things in moderation...Except syrup.

<a href="http://www.wizards.com/magic/playmagic/ ... areyou.asp" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/wha ... isblue.jpg" border="0">
<b>Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.</b></a>
User avatar
Galahad
Knight
Posts: 57
Joined: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:12 pm

Post by Galahad »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110114/ ... amesof2011

Here's some interesting background that could feed well into any setting that has to do with Native Americans, or wolves, or other such things that go bump in the night.
The Light Side is Calling! . . . . . . . . . . .it's lonely...
User avatar
rydi
Site Admin
Posts: 4063
Joined: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:29 pm

Post by rydi »

neat bit of culture there...
Threading the Gerbil since 1982

Image
Post Reply