Dr Lynn Owens, a lecturer in broadcast and electronic news at the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism, was driving home Tuesday evening when she felt something moving on her foot. She looked down and saw a … Continue reading
College courses in logic traditionally spend some time talking about fallacies, often identifying them by nifty-sounding Latin names. For example, an argumentum ad hominem (literally an argument “to the person”), is attack on another person’s character rather than a response … Continue reading
If you’re anywhere near the path of Monday’s solar eclipse in the United States, you’ll want to check out Vox’s eclipse page (link) to get an idea what the eclipse will look like where you live. Just enter your zip … Continue reading
Saturday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA featured this fun short video from southern Germany in July. Members of a local school’s astronomy club drew a chalk sundial in a city square and took turns acting as the gnomon, … Continue reading
This performance of the Ode to Joy from the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is very similar to one in Catalonia in 2011 (see link below), and as with that one, this was sponsored by a local bank. The … Continue reading
In this TED Talk from 2012 Hans Rosling show data that suggest that the world’s population will not continue to explode but will likely stabilize at about 10 billion (as the United Nations estimates). This is a modest increase from … Continue reading
You may have seen the flash mob performing the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Plaza San Roc in Sabadell, Catalonia (in Spain). If you haven’t, you can find it here, and it’s definitely worth seeing, both … Continue reading
The world’s growing population is a legitimate concern because it will strain numerous resources, including food, fresh water, and energy. However, in this 10-minute video below from 2010, the late Hans Rosling argues that there is good reason to think … Continue reading
A week ago I posted a talk by professor Hans Rosling of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who tragically died of pancreatic cancer earlier in 2017. Here’s another talk of his from 2007 that everyone should see. The overall message … Continue reading
Net neutrality basically says that companies providing provide Internet access can make money charging for bandwidth, but they can’t use their monopoly power to extort extra payments from successful Internet businesses, large and small, by threatening to block or slow … Continue reading