>> ^gwiz665:
Proves that we hear with our eyes and our brain as well as with our ears.
It's a similar thing that happens in the McGurk effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFPtc8BVdJk


Woah, cooooool!

Simon Singh is my hero

What he said in the beginning:

"There's only medicine or not medicine"

Alternative medicine is all a scam. If it works, it's medicine, if it doesn't it's crap. Some things are considered "alternative" medicine, such as massage therapy and acupuncture, which are indeed medicinal, but other stuff like homeopathy and putting crystals on your body is completely bogus. And chiropractic can only work on your joints, muscles and bones - if you postulate that cracking a back can cure your infected ear - or whatever it is the bullshitters are suing Simon Singh for disputing - you're just full of crap. You're either deliberately lying to get money out of desperate people or you're blatantly ignorant. Neither is very good for your case.

(I have a serious hair up my ass about "alternative medicine", like I do organized religion.)

Thank you!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
You go:
*amazon=LINK
Like a dupeof.
The only thing is, you can only do one amazon invocation and nothing els can be written in the comment. It will be hidden anyway.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Big Bang by Simon Singh... I don't know how to Amazon

You go:
*amazon=LINK
Like a dupeof.
The only thing is, you can only do one amazon invocation and nothing els can be written in the comment. It will be hidden anyway.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
Big Bang by Simon Singh... I don't know how to Amazon

Big Bang by Simon Singh... I don't know how to Amazon

>> ^Fusionaut:
uggh.. just go to this: Big Bang by Simon Singh


"the day without a yesterday"
fitting.
thanks fusionaut.

uggh.. just go to this: Big Bang by Simon Singh

Hmmm. This is a hard one. I'm surprised I don't have more works of fiction on this list.

1. Robert R. McCammon's Boy's Life
2. Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyer: The Power of Myth
3. Ron Paul's The Revolution:A Manifesto
4. Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion
5. Simon Singh's The Code Book

Geeks may know her for her humorous response to writer and scientist Simon Singh's disputing the scientific accuracy of one of her lyrics (Wikipedia):

On 30 September 2005, Melua came under criticism in The Guardian from writer and scientist Simon Singh for the lyrics of the track "Nine Million Bicycles"(sift).

Melua's disputed lyrics were:
“ We are 12 billion light-years from the edge. That's a guess — no-one can ever say it's true, but I know that I will always be with you. ”
They were interpreted by Singh as an assault on the accuracy of the work of cosmologists[37] which sparked a series of letters from other Guardian readers, agreeing or disagreeing.[38] On 15 October, Melua and Singh appeared on the BBC's Today programme, and Melua unveiled a re-recording of the song which included Singh's tongue-in-cheek amendments to the lyrics:

“ We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe, That's a good estimate with well-defined error bars, Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined, And with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you. ”

Both sides amicably agreed that the new lyrics were less likely to achieve commercial success, amidst a discussion about scientific accuracy versus artistic licence. Melua said that she "should have known better" because she used to be a member of the astronomy club at school.[39]

Melua's rerecording of this is mentioned/played at the end of Michael Shermer's TEDTalk. Apparently Simon Singh was upset with the inaccurate measurements she used in the song.