I retired today! December 31, 2013 I sipped champagne. After all, it is also New Years Eve! I looked up a the high clouds passing overhead and thought about the wonder of the world, and the Universe. It has all reopened to me! When I was a kid, I thought about all of this and…
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How many people are there on the Earth?
A climate researcher, Jacob Schewe, wrote an article about climate change and clean water resources, stating that there are six billion people on the Earth, now. This is published in The Conversation, which has a tagline of “Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair”, on Dec. 23, 2013. This misstatement is in the second paragraph. It begs the…
Dropping The Guardian
Holy cow! Good news sources are so hard to find in the USA. I’ve always trusted The Guardian. That’s why I am so shocked to discover that the bottom row of “news” stories, “More from around the web”, is fake news from Outbrain, make to look just like the row above. They are paid “news”…
Science Fiction Predicts Science: Slow Glass
Here’s an amazing example of this. In 1966 “The Light Of Other Days ” was published by Bob Shaw. It described “slow glass”, that could slow the image down, emerging on the far side of the pane much later. Now scientists are doing just that! This Science Daily article describes it.
Hypocrisy in Surveillance
Since the NSA surveillance revelations, many government leaders have argued that it is reasonable to spy on all Americans. I guess we cannot be trusted. They are suspicious of our motives. They have reason to be, seeing how low Congressional approval ratings are. As is often the case, we demand that Congress endure the same…