Category:Pseudoscience Pseudoscience is a broad group of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific, but that are not accepted as scientific by the scientific community. Pseudoscience does not include most obsolete scientific or medical theories (see Category:Obsolete scientific theories), nor does it include every idea that currently lacks sufficient scientific evidence (e.g. String theory) This category comprises well-known topics that are generally considered pseudoscientific by the scientific community (such as astrology) and topics that have very few followers and are obviously pseudoscientific (such as the modern belief in a flat Earth). The pejorative term itself is contested by various groups for various reasons. Generally speaking, if an article belongs in this category, the article's lead will contain a well-sourced statement that the subject is considered pseudoscience. Subcategories This category has the following 25 subcategories, out of 25 total.
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Khan Academy Capitalism vs. the Climate The US political right has campaigned fervently and, according to polls, successfully, to frame climate change as an anti-capitalist conspiracy that will lead to economic self-destruction. The right-wing’s nefarious success, notes author Naomi Klein, is ultimately not based on the exploitation of feigned scientific disagreement, but on the image of impending economic doom. The strategy’s success contains the unintended, yet valuable, lesson that climate change is not really about nature in the first place. November 17, 2011 The 'real solutions to the climate crisis are also our best hope of building a much more enlightened economic system – one that closes deep inequalities, strengthens and transforms the public sphere, generates plentiful, dignified work and radically reins in corporate power,' writes Naomi Klein. There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. Equally significant has been a shift in emotional intensity.
Conspiracy theory A conspiracy theory is an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an illegal or harmful event or situation.[1][2][3] Some scholars suggest that people formulate conspiracy theories to explain, for example, power relations in social groups and the existence of evil forces.[4][5][6][7] It has been suggested by some thinkers that conspiracy theories have chiefly psychological or socio-political origins. Proposed psychological origins include projection; the personal need to explain “a significant event [with] a significant cause;" and the product of various kinds and stages of thought disorder, such as paranoid disposition, ranging in severity to diagnosable mental illnesses. Similarly, socio-political origins may be discovered in the need of people to believe in event causation rather than suffer the insecurity of a random world and universe.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
School of Sound's International Symposium line-up revealed Event will offer a series of sessions covering film, games, documentary, installation, radio and composition disciplines. School of Sound has announced its masterclass schedule for the 2015 International Symposium event at London's Southbank Centre from 8 - 11 April. The event promises to encourage a cross-disciplinary approach to using sound in the arts and media through a series of seminars, workshops and performances hosted by skilled figures in the pro-audio and media industries. The wide range of topics cover the film, games, documentary sound, dance, installation, folk sound, listening, theatre and opera, radio and composition disciplines. Renowned foley artist Nicolas Becker (Gravity, Wuthering Heights) will present a session at 1:30pm on the Wednesday (8 April) describing his techniques and methods while reflecting on how he uses complex technology to realise his artistic vision. All sessions will take place in the Purcell Room at Southbank Centre.
Slashdot Is Social Innovation the Future of the Economy? | ParisTech Review It is often said that today we live in the world of Joseph Schumpeter, who highlighted the cycles of creative destruction animating capitalist economy. The Austrian economist notably pointed to two renewal factors: technological innovation and the role of entrepreneurs. Technological innovation can take on several forms: product creation, new production processes, new organizations of production, new markets or new source of raw material or energy. And the entrepreneur is precisely the one who endeavors for innovation, striving to meet the challenge with his drive and achieve success. As for business and management models, they have long risen to the point of now being on par with technological innovation. In 1970, James Taylor defined it as “new ways of doing things in order to meet social needs.” Profit vs. non-profit: an outdated distinction? But in essence, these two worlds diverged in their purpose: it was either making money or helping others.
Fringe theory A fringe theory is an idea or a collection of ideas that departs significantly from the prevailing or mainstream view. It can include work done to the appropriate level of scholarship in a field of study but only supported by a minority of practitioners, to more dubious work. Examples include pseudoscience (ideas that purport to be scientific theories but have little or no scientific support), conspiracy theories, unproven claims about alternative medicine, pseudohistory and so forth. Some fringe theories may in a stricter sense be hypotheses, conjectures, or speculations.[1] Characterization of a theory as fringe does not necessarily invalidate the theory. Fringe science[edit] Fringe scientific theories tend to involve original ideas, the validity of which is still uncertain. Fringe history[edit] Fringe archaeology[edit] Conspiracy theories[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Perfection in a portfolio; a web design showcase Web design is a subtle science that is lost to most who are not in the field. The amount of choices that go into building the perfect presentation for the content the client has to offer are so vast, that often the best way to demonstrate the full scope of this spectrum is to showcase a particular type of focused site. Through the multitude of examples one can begin to see how thematically similar yet still so different and complex these designs are. Today, we intend to do just that. Oven Bits Oven Bits is the home and portfolio of the creative web and mobile design agency of the same name. Robbie Leonardi Robbie Leonardi‘s portfolio is a bright and bold example of how an illustrator and front end web developer can showcase their skills more potently through the colorful and over-sized presentation of the work they have done for their clients, than strictly with the examples of the work itself. Bec Winnel Bec Winnel‘s portfolio is breathtakingly subtle in its presentation. Kris Kuksi Lapin
Documentary — RT Programs Beginning the year 2008, each April 2, the world community observes Autism Awareness Day. Join RT to see what it takes to live with autism in Russia. Hear real stories of those struggling with the disease right now. ... April 12, 2014 06:26 RT's documentaries give a varied and unique view on different aspects of life worldwide. Seven RT correspondents. April 09, 2014 10:30 The heroic work of students at the NWU of Chicago, to free Marcus Wiggins, an innocent man convicted and imprisoned. April 07, 2014 09:30 People can be so afraid that they’re even willing to kill. April 04, 2014 16:08 Ice fishing is supposed to be one of the most relaxing Russian winter pastimes- peace, solitude and a chance to commune with nature. April 02, 2014 16:30 Terra Blight traces the life cycle of computers from creation to disposal and juxtaposes the disparate worlds that have computers as their center. April 01, 2014 08:30 In Europe, the fair trade business is booming. March 27, 2014 13:53 March 24, 2014 09:30
Business ecology and the four customer currenci Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model” for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.” In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper. Let’s begin with the four customer currencies. If players with more money than others can simply buy their way to the top of the heap, a multiplayer game fails – because this makes the game un-fun for other players. Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay” for services from a company. Here’s the ecosystem we built at IMVU, just to give one example. Having a balanced ecosystem is what game designers strive for. And this is why questions like “Should a company charge money from day one?” In a traditional business, customers pay money for a physical artifact (a product) or a service. Founders struggle with this question.
The Earth is Expanding THE PANGEA THEORY is wrong . Yet it’s still the generally accepted one; still taught in our schools. In this video Neal Adams explains the theory that the Earth is in fact growing. If you have ever looked at a map of the world , you have undoubtedly noticed that the East coast of South America appears to mimic the shape of the West coast of Africa. This observation was also noticed by German born geophysicists, Alfred Wegener, who proposed that the continents we see today were once connected. His theory ( Kontinentalverschiebung ) was ridiculed and dismissed for 40 years because no one could imagine how continents could move and essentially plow through the ocean floor’s crust. But in the 1950s a research ship of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, conducted a deep sea survey of the Atlantic Ocean’s floor and discovered an enormous submerged mountain chain which they named the “Mid-Atlantic Ridge”. Subduction Zones? There is no “direct” proof of subduction.