Dear conference organizers
Decent tea cannot be made with "hot" water. Tea must be made with boiling water.
"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Just don't drink it!
ReplyDeleteYou are right of course but I think it's more the fault of the hotel or the caterer. So you should probably direct your ire to them.
ReplyDeleteI think I have seen once in a while where they use a Sterno fire thingie under the water to keep it near boiling. But you're right, usually they just put out a bin of "hot water" and that is disgusting.
As in all cases, I prefer to direct my ire at you.
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