Comments on: Warning: Your reality is out of date http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jack http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-20137 Jack Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:10:13 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-20137 Re: The boiling frog....Two degrees farenheit per minute could hardly be considered gradual. J Re: The boiling frog….Two degrees farenheit per minute could hardly be considered gradual. J

]]> By: SteveM http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-20064 SteveM Tue, 25 May 2010 19:51:39 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-20064 Understood, but the problem is far larger than just new facts are not learned. Close to 40% of the people in the US believe the earth is less than 10000 years old. We have people who prefer creation myths over evolution. We have a society that does not learn the old facts. Understood, but the problem is far larger than just new facts are not learned. Close to 40% of the people in the US believe the earth is less than 10000 years old. We have people who prefer creation myths over evolution. We have a society that does not learn the old facts.

]]> By: March 2010 Informal Learning Hotlist http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18595 March 2010 Informal Learning Hotlist Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:01:38 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18595 [...] Warning: Your reality is out of date- The Long Now Blog, March 15, 2010 [...] [...] Warning: Your reality is out of date- The Long Now Blog, March 15, 2010 [...]

]]> By: Mesofaktaa « Sinapinsiemen http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18449 Mesofaktaa « Sinapinsiemen Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:15:27 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18449 [...] Lähde: Alexander Rose. [...] [...] Lähde: Alexander Rose. [...]

]]> By: antfaber http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18444 antfaber Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:57:26 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18444 bbot: Wikipedia says that the "Boiling Frog" story does have some validity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Biological_background It may not have been replicated in this century, but the article says that modern biologists are heating the water too fast. If you know of results that attempted to replicate Heinzmann's results and failed, let me know. bbot: Wikipedia says that the “Boiling Frog” story does have some validity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Biological_background

It may not have been replicated in this century, but the article says that modern biologists are heating the water too fast. If you know of results that attempted to replicate Heinzmann’s results and failed, let me know.

]]> By: antfaber http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18443 antfaber Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:26:15 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18443 Paul Erdos called his festschrift on the occasion of his 50th annivrsary as a mathematician "My 2,000,000,050 Years in Mathematics" because the universe was 12 billion years old when he started and was 14 billion years old at the time he was writing that paper. In some cases, it's not the facts that are changing, just improved measurements or reinterpretations of the existing data (age of the universe, the number of extra solar planets, number of moons of solar planets, dinosaur biology, etc.) and in some cases the facts themselves change (the Himalayas will gradually erode and will end up looking like the Appalachians, after a long time, shape of continents, etc.) Paul Erdos called his festschrift on the occasion of his 50th annivrsary as a mathematician “My 2,000,000,050 Years in Mathematics” because the universe was 12 billion years old when he started and was 14 billion years old at the time he was writing that paper. In some cases, it’s not the facts that are changing, just improved measurements or reinterpretations of the existing data (age of the universe, the number of extra solar planets, number of moons of solar planets, dinosaur biology, etc.) and in some cases the facts themselves change (the Himalayas will gradually erode and will end up looking like the Appalachians, after a long time, shape of continents, etc.)

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]]> By: Dare to Think - Mesofacts http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18396 Dare to Think - Mesofacts Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:23 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18396 [...] Warning: Your reality is out of date (longnow.org) [...] [...] Warning: Your reality is out of date (longnow.org) [...]

]]> By: Jennifer Flower, Ph.D http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18392 Jennifer Flower, Ph.D Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:47:40 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18392 We are gradually adjusting to the notion that our brains are plastic; our perception of the passage of time is yoked to the changing pace of brain operations; our attitudes to what's important shifts with age and probably partly as a function of our reorganizing memories ... I would guess that our perspective on facts as a category of experience would be changing along with those, too. There is much of self-knowledge that are mesofacts. And we're often the last to know. We are gradually adjusting to the notion that our brains are plastic; our perception of the passage of time is yoked to the changing pace of brain operations; our attitudes to what’s important shifts with age and probably partly as a function of our reorganizing memories … I would guess that our perspective on facts as a category of experience would be changing along with those, too. There is much of self-knowledge that are mesofacts. And we’re often the last to know.

]]> By: bbot http://blog.longnow.org/2010/03/15/warning-your-reality-is-out-of-date/comment-page-1/#comment-18389 bbot Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:01:58 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/?p=1834#comment-18389 Mesofact: The "boiling frog" story isn't true. It was based on a 1872 experiment, and its results haven't been replicated this century. Here's a story from 2002 about it: http://www.uga.edu/srel/ecoviews/ecoview021118.htm Mesofact: The “boiling frog” story isn’t true. It was based on a 1872 experiment, and its results haven’t been replicated this century.

Here’s a story from 2002 about it: http://www.uga.edu/srel/ecoviews/ecoview021118.htm

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