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Comments (22)One must always be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath. "Science" isn't "bad", bad scientists produce bad "science". (Bad "science" isn't really science, it is mostly just voodoo.) We are producing bad scientists - biostitutes - at an alarming rate. I could rant on all the causes and sources but that's for another forum. I would like to encourage people to NOT find a "favorite" scientists because the scientist either says what the person WANTS to hear, or because the scientist "makes a good argument". We are TRAINED to make "good arguments" with NOTHING. Let me repeat that: We are TRAINED to "WIN AN ARGUMENT" when NO data supports the argument. We are trained in obfuscation. In fact, "winning" an argument when the side one took was patently WRONG, is highly praised! How many times have you heard some scientist say when faced with a logical rebuttal to their pet theory: "Well, NOTHING is impossible." Or these days; "Well, MOST of the scientific community ACCEPTS this." I wish I had a "technique" for "you" to use to sort the wheat from the chaff, but I don't. Personally, after 40+ years practicing science as a professional, I START OUT with the perspective that the data reported is at some level FALSIFIED. That perspective is borne of a lifetime of finding out that EVERYwhere I went data was being falsified and that even my "friends" were "fudging things" here and there. We are left to our 'own devices'. We must use our common sense. If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it has feathers and lays duck eggs; it's a duck. We also have to NOT MARRY some "favored" scientist. As soon as we do that, we are lost. Furthermore, we MUST learn to ADMIT WE'RE WRONG when we get off track or are mislead by an "expert" that we had faith in. There are two quotes I use to guide my steps these days. One is very old, and one is fairly new. The old one is "You will know them by their fruit." I learned through training how "talk" is more often than not, deceiving, but ACTION shows the truth. The new one is just the other side of the same coin: "What are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?" Paul...See More3 odd & specific house-building questions
Comments (27)Closet - love it. Foyer closets are usually for guests - and if you won't have a TON, why not have it do double duty! Brilliant. Living in the South, we don't have a ton of coats -- and visitors typically don't bring them into the house. We typically carry a coat with us "just in case" but leave it in the car. The real reason I want a coat closet at all is so I have a place to store our own bulky coats, which otherwise would take up all the space in our master closet. We'll have hooks for currently-in-use-coats, but I want to have a place to pack away winter coats when they're no longer needed. My friends put a six pack of beers in their walls. Like my husband would give up a beer. As far as looks go, a box bay might look good! I thought about that, but I think I'm just gonna say "no" to the idea ... and go with double or triple windows in that spot. Put a gun in the time capsule to generate good stories. Like I'd give up one of my guns! ? Change porch shape to mirror bay window. Now that's an idea I hadn't considered. I will ruminate on this. I liked it because it increased the size of our living room and gave it a feature. It also had stained glass over the double hungs. Yes, it was dark until late afternoons when the sun would get low enough to shine through the glass. Then it was like a jewel box. I had it set up much like your picture. That sounds lovely. Here is a question about a closet with doors on both sides that only you can answer for yourself, MrsPete. When you hang up coats, do they always face the same way? If not, the jack-n-Jill closet is great. But if they do always face the same way, will it bother you that opening the closet from one side or another reveals coats hanging in different directions? First, I hadn't applied the term "jack and jill" to this closet, but it works! Second, yes I had considered that ... it'd bother me a little -- 3 on a scale of 10. My old house had a bay window at the end of it. Great space for the two chairs as you mentioned, but I will say no one ever sat in them. If we celebrated it also would have been the perfect spot for a Christmas tree. I actually found it to be an awkward space. We'll need SOMETHING at that end of the living room ... otherwise it'd be an empty spot. Yes, I had considered the Christmas tree! Love your capsule idea. We're not doing that, but tomorrow when they pour the slab, we're going to head over to the house to embed 18 cents into the slab. (According to the Gematria, a Jewish mystical tradition that assigns a numerological value to Hebrew letters, the Chet has a value of 8 and the Yud has a value of 10, adding up to the number 18 which means Chai. Because of this, the number 18 represents good luck and gifts are often given in multiples of Chai, or 18. It symbolizes giving the recipient the gift of "life" or luck.) I'm glad you explained that because when I saw 18, I was definitely confused, as that's not a cultural reference of which I was aware! Interesting. Also very exciting that your slab's being poured. I'm not sure of the closet idea. You might lose some storage space. Would you do pocket doors? I could see it as being used as a walk through space too. Could you make it bigger so it could be used as a walkway, with closets on either side and pocket doors to close it off? No, you're imagining it bigger than it actually is -- and that's my fault for not giving any dimensions. This is a SMALL coat closet. 3' wide x 2' deep ... with a door on both sides so coats can go in /out from either side. It can't really be bigger (without decreasing other areas of the house that are more important to me), and since it is JUST for storing coats, no need for it to go bigger. No to pocket doors because of the items next to it ... plus, this isn't a door that'll ever be left open, so not an ideal spot for a pocket door. Again, thanks to all for your ideas....See MoreBayer Advanced Question
Comments (51)Apparently some are now considering using propiconazole based fungicides. In previous discussions I have used the term "Beta Tester" for those who decide to use a spray product that (I feel and try to document) is considered a questionable product as indicated by reviewed scientific studies of possible concern. The reason for using this term is that some/many feel that the U.S. Government allows chemical products to be put on the market before sufficient safety testing is completed. Because of this behavior the term "Precautionary Principle" was developed. "precautionary principle World English Dictionary the precept that an action should not be taken if the consequences are uncertain and potentially dangerous" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/precautionary+principle" --------------------------------------------------- The following link gives more detail: http://www.sehn.org/Volume_3-1.html In particular the following part should help clarify: "What about "scientific uncertainty"? Why should we take action before science tells us what is harmful or what is causing harm? Sometimes if we wait for proof it is too late. Scientific standards for demonstrating cause and effect are very high. For example, smoking was strongly suspected of causing lung cancer long before the link was demonstrated conclusively - that is, to the satisfaction of scientific standards of cause and effect. By then, many smokers had died of lung cancer. But many other people had already quit smoking because of the growing evidence that smoking was linked to lung cancer. These people were wisely exercising precaution despite some scientific uncertainty. Often a problem - such as a cluster of cancer cases or global warming - is too large, its causes too diverse, or the effects too long term to be sorted out with scientific experiments that would prove cause and effect. It's hard to take these problems into the laboratory. Instead, we have to rely on observations, case studies or predictions based on current knowledge. According to the precautionary principle, when substantial scientific evidence of any kind gives us good reason to believe that an activity, technology or substance may be harmful, we should act to prevent harm. If we always wait for scientific certainty, people may suffer and die, and damage to the natural world may be irreversible." -------------------------------------------------------- The question here is whether propiconazole at this time meets the criteria of concern utilizing the Precautionary Principle? Fortunately, a June 9, 2017 manuscript titled: "Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance propiconazole" has appeared. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4887/epdf --------------------------------------------------------- After you download the article I recommend a "find" search of the phrase "data gap". (do not use the quotes)...See MoreHistory behind the girls names of some Ficus?
Comments (14)Guys, I do know how names are arrived at (did latin, got the science degree etc) : that wasn't my question tropicbreezent seems to have gotten my point: using outright women's names is fairly rare (especially for trees rather than flowering plants), and I idly wondered if there was a backstory floral - sometimes truth is stranger than fiction but evidently not in this case... gudang - I have not heard of a variegated FLF, sounds interesting...See Morepirate_girl
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