@Robert, the most expensive cat shit in the world!

Of course if you really love coffee….

Kopi luwak (Indonesian pronunciation: [ˈkopi ˈlu.aʔ]), or civet coffee, is coffee that includes part-digested coffee cherries eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). Fermentation occurs as the cherries pass through a civet’s intestines, and after being defecated with ot…[Read more]

I think I saw @Daniel W. drive by the other day with his coffee cup…..

@Daniel, yes we still have to be careful where we purchase from. I’ve been buying ”ethical coffees” where treatment  & wages are fair.

@JadeBlackOlive, the other day I was at Trader Joes, looking at coffee beans.  I saw the Sumatra, which I used to love, then thought, no, in Indonesia they kill atheists and gays, round them up and put them in prison.  Then I looked at the Kenya, and thought, no, that one’s just as bad.  Finally I bought some Ethiopian coffee beans, but I di…[Read more]

That is the key value of the Scientific Method when properly applied. A good theory should be able to make predictions and allow others to reproduce the results. It should be falsifiable. When a paper is submitted for peer-review other scientists try to disprove it. They want to tear it apart and find faults with it. They set out to prove it wrong…[Read more]

It’s interesting what Feynman says about a vague guess or hypothesis – it can’t be proved wrong, presumably because its predictions are vague.  Perhaps in trying to prove it wrong, its vagueness shows up.

@Daniel

There is nothing about the United States that makes the current direction of US politics a permanent one. The overwhelming majority of the facets of American life is identical to other western countries. It’s the irrational and sometimes cold/cruel peculiarities that always stick out. Perhaps the future will see a kinder approach to s…[Read more]