The Essence of Science

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/17/152913171/the-essence-of-science…

Science is our way of describing — as best we can — how the world works. The world, it is presumed, works perfectly well without us. Our thinking about it makes no important difference. It is out there, being the world. We are locked in, busy in our minds. And when our minds make a guess about what’s happening out there, if we put our guess to the test, and we don’t get the results we expect, as Feynman says, there can be only one conclusion: we’re wrong.

 

Fat Tax in Denmark

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The Nordic country isn???t known for having a grossly overweight population ??? only about 10 percent of Danes are considered obese, compared to about one-third of adults (33.8 percent) and approximately 17 percent (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents age 2???19 years in the United States, according to a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.