Postby Technomancer » Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:01 pm
Nah...when stuff decomposes under the right conditions, it kind of....melts. If there are any biologist/organic chemists here they could probably tell you what it is, assuming you really want to know. Whatever it is, it stinks like you wouldn't believe.
*edit, I replied to this at the same time as calbhach
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
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