Some reflections on STS and praxiography.
After Bacon (Boyle and his friends are important too), scientific method is directed towards detecting and amplifying realities. /1
@AdamKinzinger What you are saying is probably irrelevant to a good number of people who were too young or ill-informed to know whether they would have opposed Obama doing such a thing. And where opposition to Trump’s actions has become automatic—without it necessarily being partisan.
@AdamKinzinger Most of this is way too technical for us to know—
what was possible for Iran to do
-based on the science
-based on the intelligence
What was likely of Iran to do
What is likely for Iran to do now
What Russia and China will do
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"Facts must be produced. And, just like in any industry, growing the fact industry’s efficiency, investment, and demand will increase supply while reducing cost. In this sense, the Scientific Revolution was an industrial revolution as much as a conceptual one."
For years we have heard that facts are endangered.
But actually, facts are good and dead. And it wasn’t Donald Trump that killed them. It was technology.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this in 2023, since it seems very obvious, but grades are incredibly fake.
They are fake in public elementary schools. They are fake in elite colleges. They are fake in graduate programs.
Fire Facts from a Boreal 🔥 Ecologist to help you understand what is really going on in Canada.
Fire Fact 1: The term “forest fire” is misleading in boreal regions. Also burning are peatlands and permafrost ecosystems, which store LOTS of ancient carbon. 1/
“The next medium, whatever it is — it may be the satellite environment or the extension of consciousness — will include television as it’s content, not its environment, and will transform television into an art form.”
Marshall McLuhan
‘The Invisible Environment’
1967
@alexbunardzic Thick couplings like forests. An assemblage of different kinds of flora and their attendant fauna. Some parts like trees have stronger coupling others like fungus have weaker couplings. Future proofing depends on redundancy, knotworks, seasons, and cycles of recovery.