What did you learn today?

[the harp unstrung]

Wednesday I Learned

 

[roccobass]

The Sweet’s bassist Steve Priest recalling a meeting with David Bowie..

Priest recalled talking to David Bowie backstage at Top of the Pops. “I was plastering this make-up on, and Bowie's going: 'Oh no, no, no. You've got to be subtle.' Bowie just didn't get it. It isn't supposed to be subtle. I'm supposed to look like an old tart."

 

[Tom Bomb]

Good scientists don’t feed the doubt machine.​

 

[PillO]

Good scientists don’t feed the doubt machine.​

The "doubt machine" (which might be a good band name) is precisely how science works. It is embedded in the process to be skeptical of all finds. The best scientists preemptively look for how their results can be challenged and design further experiments to prove or disprove the elements of doubt.

Doubt without logic "I just don't believe ****" is not science. But "I doubt because you haven't explained ****" is science. The burden of proof is always on the one proclaiming new information.

Science IS the doubt machine at work.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Good scientists don’t feed the doubt machine.​

The "doubt machine" (which might be a good band name) is precisely how science works. It is embedded in the process to be skeptical of all finds. The best scientists preemptively look for how their results can be challenged and design further experiments to prove or disprove the elements of doubt.

Doubt without logic "I just don't believe ****" is not science. But "I doubt because you haven't explained ****" is science. The burden of proof is always on the one proclaiming new information.

Science IS the doubt machine at work.

I stand corrected. But it's a terrible band name.
​

 

[PillO]

I stand corrected. But it's a terrible band name.
​

I would go see Doubt Machine. They could do a whole robotics festival - rage against the machine, florence and the machine...

 

[Tom Bomb]

If you do, stick around for Truth Decay. You won't be disappointed.

I would go see Doubt Machine.

 

[the harp unstrung]

TIL
With the power of Love
Anything is possible.

J. Hendrix

 

[Winslow]

Thanks to Elon Musk, lots of people learned how we get new rockets...

 

[TOOL460002]

Just took online traffic school. Learned I've been violating some laws in a way I hadn't considered. Turns out there is something to be learned from that garbage.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Just took online traffic school. Learned I've been violating some laws in a way I hadn't considered. Turns out there is something to be learned from that garbage.

Don't worry, you're not going to get pulled over for any of that...

 

[PillO]

Just took online traffic school. Learned I've been violating some laws in a way I hadn't considered. Turns out there is something to be learned from that garbage.

Offering cops donuts and/or beer is not a legal means of avoiding a ticket?

 

[TOOL460002]

Offering cops donuts and/or beer is not a legal means of avoiding a ticket?

Not topless at least.

 

[PillO]

Not topless at least.

The car or the driver?

 

[the harp unstrung]

TIL about this 3-week-old story.

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[TX-Rover]

I learned about Parking Prices at the Super Bowl

 

[FilterFunk]

TIL that George Plimpton, Hunter S. Thompson, and Norman Mailer were in Kinshasa, Zaire for the Ali-Foreman heavyweight title fight in 1974. I'm pretty sure literary luminaries like these wouldn't have traveled to Africa to see fighters like Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.

 

[the harp unstrung]

^^^Good. Bet.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Of course I have no financial interest in promoting the appearance.

I am genuinely excited to have learned this today…and if you have ever been in the same space with Buddy Guy, I’m sure you understand.

 

[the harp unstrung]