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Dawkins is out, du Sautoy is in
Cliff notes: Richard Dawkins has retired from being the inaugural chair for the public understanding of science at Oxford, or "Captain Science To You And Stop Taking What I Said Out Of Context". Oxford has just appointed the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy to take his place.
What a dish. My hard on for science was waning to a semi but I'm back to full mast now.
Cliff notes: Richard Dawkins has retired from being the inaugural chair for the public understanding of science at Oxford, or "Captain Science To You And Stop Taking What I Said Out Of Context". Oxford has just appointed the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy to take his place.
What a dish. My hard on for science was waning to a semi but I'm back to full mast now.
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I mean the smell of freshly turned soil can be pleasant.
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Amazing.
How convenient.
He's written like one book specifically about religion. His earlier work is some pretty good science.
People love to paint Dawkins badly, but they seem to forget that all their other idols (Asimov, Sagan, etc) all had some pretty negative things to say about religion. People are just too touchy.
What?
Have you read The Selfish Gene? The Blind Watchmaker? The Ancestor's Tale?
That show about his creek was pretty great. Was that based on one of his books?
Dawkins is more a philosopher than a scientist and he's not that fantastic. I know atheists have boners for him, but he hasn't had any unique scientific discoveries.
While I agree that Dublo is exaggerating a bit. By what reasoning do you claim he is more of a philosopher than scientist?
You also don't seem to get the real impact of The Selfish Gene. It changed the way people and other scientists thought about evolution and biology, almost as a whole.
And yeah, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit, but hey... that's what I do.
No 'cause Dru is old as dirt.
this guy smells like dirt
something something punchline.
He has but admittedly I didn't scrub too hard.
Also, be careful helping him in and out of the tub. Old people be feeble as shit.
I have a couple of glass ones too, but they're still at the office of patent assholes who work at the pace of a snail riding a glacier stuck in molasses in January.
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Does it get us any closer to:
Laser guns
X-Wings
Lightsabers
The Enterprise
Teleporters
a Stargate
Food replicators
or
Cyborgs?
If not then no, why did you waste your time?
No, but it is used in breathable films that keep wrapped produce fresher and for products like diapers that allow you to know there's a surprise inside without having it leak out to confirm it.
My other invention is amorphous metals, so we can build a containment unit for humpback whales on your starship of choice.
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Dude looks like Sting
I forgot shields.
Does it get us any closer to force fields or shield emitters?
what about sex robots? any progress on that front without coming up with sex robots that haunt a man's nightmares? dang japanese
Nuh uh.
Simon Pegg + Putin.
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Is this just fancy talk for making a glass dildo, science man?
It created the illusion that you were constantly posting from a forge
I was going to say something about River Out Of Eden and then the penny dropped. Good show old sport.
Sir, that was HK-47 from KOTOR and KOTOR 2. The most ass kicking killer robot in the galaxy.
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The difference between Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins is that a) Carl Sagan was actually a pretty spiritual guy and b) Richard Dawkins is a douche
Also Carl Sagan was way handsomer and had a prettier voice
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