principle

So, that's that I guess. He says principle, but I say he's just pandering to his base again... Republicans continue to needlessly insult Hispanics they will need in the future. ??? the fuuuuuuuuu

Back when I used to enjoy discussing politics in here and defending libertarianism I used to make the argument (well, it's really the Libertarian argument) that unlike virtually every other political party the Libertarians based their positions on principle (and God knows I don't want to debate...

Anfinsen's principle states that the three-dimensional folding of a protein is based solely on its amino acid sequence. It appears that yet another cell biology principle is oversimplified. In the latest issue of Science, an article describes the discovery of proteins with the same amino acid...

________________________________________ Money is the Unifying Principle of Globalization To understand the global capitalist system we call Globalization one must find a unifying principle. Our system of government protects rights and expects values to be freely chosen by the citizen. A...

I tried to use the UP in an argument on the origins of the universe -- the whole something from nothing question. The UP states that it's impossible to know everything about a system. For instance you cannot know the exact energy of a system at an exact moment. Which leads to virtual particles...

story reference There may be a method to the Bush madness after all.

I'll let you have all the fun, do a google search. One of the most JREF-applicable memes I've encountered in years. Okay, I'll admit it, I only encourage you to search because I see it stated many different ways. Here's one: Sometimes I see difficult replaced with impossible, and I...

Has me scratching my head... We cannot know both an object's velocity and position, I think. But I do know a photon is moving EXACTLY c, so how much does that knowledge make me lose about it's position? IOW, does the UP make photons unbelievably hard to locate? If not, why not? If so, what...

The August, 2003 edition of Scientific American, a publication venerated by the skeptic community, so much so that it carries a regular column by Michael Shermer this month carries a serious article discussing the probability of the universe as a hologram. The blurb at the beginning states that...