Science is fucking brilliant.

[Duff]

All within the last few days:

Possible cure for HIV
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/24 ... infection/
Experimental evidence that time is emergent phenomenon of Quantum Entanglement
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/d5d3dc850933
More than 1000 exoplanets now observed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24549384
plus shit loads more....


Out of curiosity, has anything important come out of the Humanities in the last decade?

[Clayface]

Out of curiosity, has anything important come out of the Humanities in the last decade?

The Catholic Church absolved me of all my sins, now my soul is as white as Snow - so the Police have got nothing on me and my bottom won't stop bleeding. That's fairly important to me, at least?

Pat

[Norton C Wongpower]

It depends on what you define as important, Shirley?

But yes, science is a bit good.

[Skipp]

Go on Roy, explain to us all about time and quantum entanglement...

If you could do that without sounding like a mystic that would be particularly impressive!

[General Paranoia]

I liked the last headline "Science has discovered shit loads more!"

[mcfonz]

Harry Potter?

[An Absent Humphrey]

Good to hear of the advancement our scientific colleagues have made with their godless experiments.
Lucky them for having the chance to show such palpable results!

As for the humanities. Well, not so many opportunities for curing death and illness, but recent philosophical advances have shown that, though they can't actually cure you, they can help you realise that life is but a transitory state, and may even be nothing more than hallucination, and that all that death signifies is the transition from one state to another with all the sensory relocation that will entail.

Why, only this morning I sat discussing with a colleague the similarities in theme and structure of the poems of John Clare and Edward Thomas. I really feel that we made signicant advances in our appreciation of the role of nature and its relation to the works of the nineteenth century Romantics and modern nature writers. It was quite edifying and qite pleasant.

I'm sure the benefit of all that is self-evident.

[Gi6ers]

Until I get my anti-gravity rocket boots the scientists can fuck off.

[Goldwyrm]

recent philosophical advances have shown that, though they can't actually cure you, they can help you realise that life is but a transitory state, and may even be nothing more than hallucination, and that all that death signifies is the transition from one state to another with all the sensory relocation that will entail.

Did my Nihilism meter just go off?

Not that it matters for anything.

[Skipp]

recent philosophical advances have shown that, though they can't actually cure you, they can help you realise that life is but a transitory state, and may even be nothing more than hallucination, and that all that death signifies is the transition from one state to another with all the sensory relocation that will entail.

Did my Nihilism meter just go off?

Not that it matters for anything.

Yep - my futility switch just flipped.... Must be beerO'clock...