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I found this website while reading the comments section of a [http://metamodern.com/2010/01/17/the-importance-of-seeing-what-isn%E2%80%99t-there/ blog post]. I am interested in working on a Wikipedia-like website that deals with factual controversies as described in Eric Drexler's blog post. I think this website is similar to what Drexler envisioned and I hope I can make some valuable contributions to this website. | I found this website while reading the comments section of a [http://metamodern.com/2010/01/17/the-importance-of-seeing-what-isn%E2%80%99t-there/ blog post]. I am interested in working on a Wikipedia-like website that deals with factual controversies as described in Eric Drexler's blog post. I think this website is similar to what Drexler envisioned and I hope I can make some valuable contributions to this website. | ||
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| + | ==Quotes== | ||
| + | "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." | ||
| + | -Thomas Paine | ||
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| + | "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." | ||
| + | -David Hume | ||
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| + | ==Articles I have started== | ||
| + | *[[Phantom time]] | ||
| + | *[[Voynich manuscript]] | ||
| + | *[[Technology]] | ||
| + | *[[Ica stones]] | ||
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| + | ==Articles I should create== | ||
| + | *Safety of the Large Hadron Collider: micro black holes and strangelets | ||
| + | *Risk of "grey goo" (nanotechnology) | ||
| + | *Authorship of the works attributed to William Shakespeare | ||
| + | *Music (e.g. gangsta rap, heavy metal) and violent behavior | ||
| + | *Video games and violent behavior | ||
| + | *Religion and violent behavior | ||
| + | *Cruelty to animals in childhood and adult violent behavior | ||
| + | *Mental illness and violent behavior | ||
| + | *Nazis/Hitler and atheism | ||
| + | *Cold fusion | ||
| + | *Bimini road | ||
| + | *Piri Reis map | ||
| + | *Wow! signal | ||
| + | *'Bloop' sound recording in the ocean | ||
Latest revision as of 09:16, 18 July 2011
I found this website while reading the comments section of a blog post. I am interested in working on a Wikipedia-like website that deals with factual controversies as described in Eric Drexler's blog post. I think this website is similar to what Drexler envisioned and I hope I can make some valuable contributions to this website.
Quotes
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
-Thomas Paine
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
-David Hume
Articles I have started
Articles I should create
- Safety of the Large Hadron Collider: micro black holes and strangelets
- Risk of "grey goo" (nanotechnology)
- Authorship of the works attributed to William Shakespeare
- Music (e.g. gangsta rap, heavy metal) and violent behavior
- Video games and violent behavior
- Religion and violent behavior
- Cruelty to animals in childhood and adult violent behavior
- Mental illness and violent behavior
- Nazis/Hitler and atheism
- Cold fusion
- Bimini road
- Piri Reis map
- Wow! signal
- 'Bloop' sound recording in the ocean