Today, 2017 September 3, is Julian day 2,458,000. The last three digits just rolled over to all zeros. Granted, it’s not as dramatic as rolling over to Julian day 3,000,000 (which won’t happen for nearly 15 centuries), but it’s something. … Continue reading
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You may recently have heard about the suffering caused by cholera, an infectious disease that can kill anyone but as with most infectious diseases is deadliest to the the youngest and the oldest. There’s an epidemic of it in Yemen, … 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
An article by Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes just published in Environmental Research Letters concludes that “ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science — by way of its scientists’ academic publications — but promoted doubt about it in advertorials. Given this … Continue reading
Popular English comedian Peter Kay plays some easily misinterpreted song lyrics during a live show. (Some are mildly naughty, not suited for prime-time broadcast in the U.S.) Link: https://youtu.be/UMYorpYNMKc A little over five years ago I posted a link to … Continue reading
Hans Rosling, who died of pancreatic cancer 2017 February 7 at the age of 68, was professor of international health at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He was a gifted public speaker who specialized in correcting popular misconceptions, including pessimistic … Continue reading
This article on game designers from the July 5 issue of IndyWeek (a weekly newspaper in the Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area of North Carolina) is definitely worth a quick read. Just as there are scads of novelists, … Continue reading
This past April 21 the North Carolina State Board of Elections released results of an audit (PDF) of illegal votes cast in the 2016 general election. The News & Observer of Raleigh provided a good summary the same day and … Continue reading
Back on June 1 President Trump gave a speech (official transcript here) announcing that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, claiming that the agreement “disadvantages the United States to the exclusive benefit of other countries.” Of … Continue reading
There are a lot of major things going on in the world besides Donald Trump. A few examples with links to more information: Famine endangers 20 million people in Africa (Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan) and the Middle East (Syria and Yemen), … Continue reading