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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"> <channel> <title>Sciforums</title> <description>Forum discussions cover world events, science, religion, philosophy, and technology.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:04:07 +0000</pubDate> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:04:07 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>Sciforums</generator> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/</link> <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://www.sciforums.com/forums/-/index.rss"/> <item> <title>UFOs (UAPs): Explanations?</title> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:24:20 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/ufos-uaps-explanations.160045/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/ufos-uaps-explanations.160045/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Magical Realist)</author> <dc:creator>Magical Realist</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="color: #ff0000">Moderator note: The original title of this thread was "In defence of space aliens". The title was changed in June 2022 because the original title was perceived by some to inaccurately describe what they believe UFOs to be.<br />-----</span><br /><br />"Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/ufos-uaps-explanations.160045/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">UFOs (UAPs): Explanations?</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>9386</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Is the brain a computer?</title> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 05:41:58 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/is-the-brain-a-computer.166233/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/is-the-brain-a-computer.166233/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (C C)</author> <dc:creator>C C</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[This topic is contributed or inspired by the posts of TheVat and ThusSpoke in the Philosophy Updates thread. Write4U's reply has also also added --> <span style="text-decoration: underline"><b><a href="http://www.sciforums.com/threads/philosophy-updates.166232/#post-3723260" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">go here to read it</a></b></span>. <br /><br /> <div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote" data-author="TheVat"> <aside> <div class="attribution type">TheVat said: <a href="goto/post?id=3723235#post-3723235" class="AttributionLink">↑</a> </div> <blockquote class="quoteContainer"><div class="quote"><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer</a><br /><br />Interesting takedown on the model of the brain as a computer.</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote> </aside></div>Intro line...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/is-the-brain-a-computer.166233/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Is the brain a computer?</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>22</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Why do people believe in God?</title> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:48:48 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/why-do-people-believe-in-god.166210/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/why-do-people-believe-in-god.166210/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Write4U)</author> <dc:creator>Write4U</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote" data-author="Pinball1970"> <aside> <div class="attribution type">Pinball1970 said: <a href="goto/post?id=3721870#post-3721870" class="AttributionLink">↑</a> </div> <blockquote class="quoteContainer"><div class="quote">I think we can dispense with our earthly gods without much fuss.</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote> </aside></div>Why are there 5.8 billion people who believe in a god and only 16 % of the world's population is atheist?]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>215</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>marsupial gliders to flying squrials?</title> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 02:52:25 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/marsupial-gliders-to-flying-squrials.166370/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/marsupial-gliders-to-flying-squrials.166370/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (sculptor)</author> <dc:creator>sculptor</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ok we have marsupial gliders and then flying squirrels<br />and<br />independent?<br />or?<br /><br />your thoughts?]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Jokes and Funny Stories II</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:52:06 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/jokes-and-funny-stories-ii.140862/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/jokes-and-funny-stories-ii.140862/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Billy T)</author> <dc:creator>Billy T</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-09/marriage-makes-you-rich-and-stupid.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-09/marriage-makes-you-rich-and-stupid.html</a> Note the not printed or compressed part of link is: Marriage makes you rich and stupid.<br /><br />IMHO, Bloomberg has made a common mistake, like thinking fire trucks cause fires. I.e. reversing cause and effect. I.e. if you are rich and stupid, you are surely married.<br /><br />Man's best friend:<br /><img src="http://images.outbrain.com/imageserver/v2/s/L4FY/n/ke9rV/abc/dRHGQ/ke9rV-SNp-109x109.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[​IMG]" data-url="http://images.outbrain.com/imageserver/v2/s/L4FY/n/ke9rV/abc/dRHGQ/ke9rV-SNp-109x109.jpg" />]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>3370</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Write4U's stream of consciousness</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:55:35 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/write4us-stream-of-consciousness.166288/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/write4us-stream-of-consciousness.166288/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Write4U)</author> <dc:creator>Write4U</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote" data-author="Ivan Seeking"> <aside> <div class="attribution type">Ivan Seeking said: <a href="goto/post?id=3723502#post-3723502" class="AttributionLink">↑</a> </div> <blockquote class="quoteContainer"><div class="quote">More importantly, they use a very limited definition of consciousness and they said so. Do you remember that?</div><div class="quoteExpand">Click to expand...</div></blockquote> </aside></div>I certainly do. I believe that is usually the case when a concept is tested. You begin with an easy example, such as a single-celled Paramecium which navigates via kinetic pressures that allow the cell to avoid obstacles. But more remarkably the cell exhibits memory of such conditions as regularly timed intervals. Thus the...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/write4us-stream-of-consciousness.166288/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Write4U's stream of consciousness</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>302</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>"Compromised science" news/opines (includes retractions, declining academic standards, pred-J, etc)</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:15:27 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/compromised-science-news-opines-includes-retractions-declining-academic-standards-pred-j-etc.165981/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/compromised-science-news-opines-includes-retractions-declining-academic-standards-pred-j-etc.165981/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (C C)</author> <dc:creator>C C</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #660000">Continuation of updates in Wegs' <span style="text-decoration: underline"><b><a href="http://www.sciforums.com/threads/retracted-studies-and-papers.165670/page-4#post-3713749" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">retracted studies and papers thread</a></b></span>, but under a broader title to better reflect the range of material that becomes contiguous with the narrower topic.</span></span>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>290</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Is empiricism self-refuting?</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/is-empiricism-self-refuting.166356/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/is-empiricism-self-refuting.166356/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Magical Realist)</author> <dc:creator>Magical Realist</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[I would say it is. It is a simple yet powerful argument. Empiricism asserts that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. But if this is true, then there is at least one thing that can be known without sense experience, namely that all knowledge is derived from sense experience. Therefore the claim that all knowledge is derived from sense experience, if true, becomes false. Here's Bertrand Russell's take on it:<br /><br /> "I will observe, however, that empiricism, as a theory of knowledge, is...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/is-empiricism-self-refuting.166356/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Is empiricism self-refuting?</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>14</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Quotes to remember</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:23:52 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/quotes-to-remember.162190/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/quotes-to-remember.162190/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (wegs)</author> <dc:creator>wegs</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="https://i.imgur.com/cPxm58t.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[​IMG]" data-url="https://i.imgur.com/cPxm58t.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />Post some, if you like. <img src="/smilies/smile.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":smile:" title="Smile :smile:" />]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>3046</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Yet more questions about light</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:12:58 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/yet-more-questions-about-light.166367/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/yet-more-questions-about-light.166367/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Magical Realist)</author> <dc:creator>Magical Realist</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[If photons have no mass, how can they have energy. Is not the energy of moving objects converted from their mass?<br /><br />How do light waves carry information to our brains about the physical world? Are our eyes capable, at the quantum level, of processing the data imprinted in light into facts about our physical world? Or does this all happen later on inside the brain? Might differences in the lightwaves hitting our eyes be interpreted by our brains as motion, much like how a movie is but a running...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/yet-more-questions-about-light.166367/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Yet more questions about light</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>66</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Philosophy Updates</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:59:52 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/philosophy-updates.166232/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/philosophy-updates.166232/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (C C)</author> <dc:creator>C C</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Topic's dual purpose:</b> <br /><br /><div style="padding-left: 30px">1. Providing recent (and sometimes old) items that may serve as candidates for starting separate discussion threads about. <br /><br />2. Provide the overall philosophy section with a source for keeping up with happenings, developments, issues, and interviews. ​</div>_]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>96</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Trump's legal woes</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:47:45 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/trumps-legal-woes.166280/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/trumps-legal-woes.166280/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (James R)</author> <dc:creator>James R</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Surprisingly, we don't really have a dedicated thread on this, yet. Since there's a lot more to come this year, it seems like a good time to start one.<br /><br />Latest news is that Donald Trump has just been ordered by a federal jury to pay writer E. Jean Carroll a total of US<i>$</i>83.3 million, consisting of <i>$</i>18.3 million in compensatory damages and <i>$</i>65 million in punitive damages.<br /><br />This case followed further denials from Trump, claiming he had never met Carroll and that she made up...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/trumps-legal-woes.166280/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Trump's legal woes</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>60</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Everyday anomalies</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:59:48 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/everyday-anomalies.165927/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/everyday-anomalies.165927/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Magical Realist)</author> <dc:creator>Magical Realist</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[My title for this thread is somewhat "tongue in cheek" paradoxical. But it is meant to discuss things that happen that don't presently have an explanation. Think of phenomena that science hasn't gotten around to explaining yet. Below are two examples of a soap bubble suspended motionlessly in midair. In the video you can hear the comments about the occurence. The suggestion of a "glitch in the matrix" is mentioned at some point. I must confess this has me stumped. What is a plausible cause for...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/everyday-anomalies.165927/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Everyday anomalies</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>128</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Losing your religion</title> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:02:29 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/losing-your-religion.166343/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/losing-your-religion.166343/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Pinball1970)</author> <dc:creator>Pinball1970</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[As it says on the tin, if you are now a non believer how did you lose your faith? <br />One incident? <br />A gradual decline? Or a specific series of events? <br />Also if you kept your faith despite set backs how did that happen. <br />Atheists and theists welcome. <br /><br />I will start off<br /><br />1976 - I am 9 watching daytime science programme (I'm ill in hospital) Discover ancient cave paintings, tools. Were Adam and Eve cave men? <br />1980- Irpinia earth quake, over 2000 dead including kids in an orphanage and church goers....<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/losing-your-religion.166343/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Losing your religion</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>23</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Intelligent earth lights</title> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:16:05 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/intelligent-earth-lights.166369/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/intelligent-earth-lights.166369/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Magical Realist)</author> <dc:creator>Magical Realist</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The witnessing of strange floating orbs of light in natural settings occurs all over the globe, They are usually indigenous to a certain geographic location, and remain mysterious in terms of their origin. Examples include the Marfa lights near Marfa Texas, the Brown Mountain lights in NC, the Hessdalen lights in Norway, the Min Min lights of Australia, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_fireball" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Naga fireballs</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Mekong</a> in...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/intelligent-earth-lights.166369/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Intelligent earth lights</a>]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>A Poem Thread</title> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:33:11 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/a-poem-thread.22131/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/a-poem-thread.22131/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Angelus)</author> <dc:creator>Angelus</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Come one come all, hey you! Stop jerking off, that's not what I meant, this isn't the big penis thread, wrap that around your leg or something. Anyway, bring you masterpieces or you apprenticepieces or you notevenqualifiedfortoiletpaperpieces and share with the world. Err, the world of Sciforums anyway. I'll start off.<br /><br />Untitled(no that's not a clever title, it just doesn't have one)<br /><br />Edge so sharp it frees me<br />and I think not as I settle to my knees<br />and my blood comes forth<br />take a sip...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/a-poem-thread.22131/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">A Poem Thread</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>2518</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>The Legend of Indrid Cold</title> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:56:02 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/the-legend-of-indrid-cold.166357/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/the-legend-of-indrid-cold.166357/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Magical Realist)</author> <dc:creator>Magical Realist</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[A figure of sinister appearance and telepathic powers associated with a ufo landing and John Keel's mothman experiences. Also known as "the Grinning Man", he has over the years gained prominence on the internet and in books and movies and has attained cryptid status. Here's the actual first encounter with him in 1966 reported by Woodrow Derenger near Mineral Wells West Virginia:<br /><br />"Things always seem mysterious on chilly fall nights in the country.<br /><br />For Woodrow Derenberger, his mysterious...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/the-legend-of-indrid-cold.166357/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">The Legend of Indrid Cold</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>U.S. vs. U.K. common terms</title> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:47:38 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/u-s-vs-u-k-common-terms.165084/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/u-s-vs-u-k-common-terms.165084/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (mathman)</author> <dc:creator>mathman</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[U.S. U.K.<br />trolley tram<br />gas(oline) petrol<br />hood bonnet (car)<br />baby carriage pram<br />buddy mate<br />cop copper (police)<br /><br />There are many more. How did this evolve?]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>70</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>"Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!"</title> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:16:16 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/killing-is-my-business-and-business-is-good.166296/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/killing-is-my-business-and-business-is-good.166296/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (Killjoy)</author> <dc:creator>Killjoy</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The lyrics of an old tune queried: "<i>War - what is it good for ?</i>"<br /><br />One answer seems to be, sadly perhaps, money in the bank...<br /><br />I'm reminded of a couple of excerpts from a speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower:<br /><i>This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...<br /><br />This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron....</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/killing-is-my-business-and-business-is-good.166296/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">"Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!"</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Can my unconscious have its own unconscious?</title> <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:23:27 +0000</pubDate> <link>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/can-my-unconscious-have-its-own-unconscious.166368/</link> <guid>https://www.sciforums.com/threads/can-my-unconscious-have-its-own-unconscious.166368/</guid> <author>invalid@example.com (DaveC426913)</author> <dc:creator>DaveC426913</dc:creator> <content:encoded><![CDATA[I had a dream last night. It'll take me a bit to land this plane so bear with me...<br /><br />I dreamed my gaming buddies and I were playing in a Time Traveling Adventurers RPG campaign that consisted of five episodes.<br /><br />In the first four episodes, we bopped around historical North America, righting various wrongs and stuff. The fifth episode I was summarizing for one of the other players, telling her how the Turks were marching through New orleans area, and that now we were Turks, as if it was just a...<br /><br /><a href="https://www.sciforums.com/threads/can-my-unconscious-have-its-own-unconscious.166368/" target="_blank" class="externalLink" rel="nofollow">Can my unconscious have its own unconscious?</a>]]></content:encoded> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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