saw this today and though it was interesting. Didn't know where else to put this.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...to_create.html
I had never heard of this and thought it was interesting.
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It’s sort of a long story,” he began, sighing. “But basically, as you know, the material wasn’t what we thought it was.”
For Uncle Bob—and most of the Western world—the story began in 1966, when Boris Deryagin presented his findings at a conference in London. But it really started decades earlier, when a series of obscure papers had hinted that water sometimes behaved weirdly in certain experimental conditions.
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it was simply a reminder that humans guide scientific research, not robots. And humans are subject to desires, which make objectivity really hard to achieve. … it did reveal something fundamentally true about the character of the human mind.
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