Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!think!husc6!seismo!rochester!udel!princeton!notecnirp!jrw From: jrw@notecnirp.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.med,talk.rumors,misc.headlines Subject: Re: Definition of science Message-ID: <5528@princeton.Princeton.EDU> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 15:43:45 EDT Article-I.D.: princeto.5528 Posted: Thu Jul 9 15:43:45 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 03:01:15 EDT References: <6693@allegra.UUCP> <1664@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> <485@sol.ARPA> <768@aurora.UUCP> Sender: news@princeton.Princeton.EDU Reply-To: jrw@notecnirp.UUCP (Jeffrey Westbrook) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University Lines: 15 Xref: utgpu sci.research:176 sci.med:2284 talk.rumors:791 misc.headlines:912 In article <768@aurora.UUCP> shafto@aurora.UUCP (Michael Shafto) writes: > >For an interesting perspective on the nature of science, >more or less in the spirit of Lakatos . . . [effete intellectual >blather] . . . > Can we keep this tedious "definition of science" crap out of Misc.Headlines? Here I only want to see hard-hitting, breathless reports of fast-breaking news stories, preferably written in short, choppy sentences. I want to read turgid prose, meaty prose, prose with hair on it. I want to read what happens when it happens as it happens, and I want to read it in 3-line paragraphs. Misc.Headlines: USENET's only potentially Pulitzer-Prize-winning newsgroup.