Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
New to me anyway… So pretty much all of the 3D printers I’ve been posting about and watching for the past few years have been one of two basic techniques, one of which has two basic technologies. The first technique is the “extrude and build up” technology. This is when you take a long thread [...]
Did you know that there is an actual immortal organism on this planet? This jellyfish ages until it is stressed, when its cells somehow reverse their differentiation and it returns to an undifferentiated larval state from whence it regrows into an adult jellyfish again. Sommer was conducting research on hydrozoans, small invertebrates that, depending on [...]
Now that the dust has mostly settled from the election campaign, and I and the half of the nation who share my views of our current administration are resigning themselves to the inevitable decline and probable fall of western civilization, I thought I’d delve a bit back into the realm of politics after an unusually [...]
So, my previous post on the “Super” and “Micro” moons were a rather tame example of my problem with mainstream media “reporting” about “science”. Here is a much more common sort of example, with a reporter from “The Atlantic” hyperventilating about “warp drives” and travel to Alpha Centauri in two weeks. (Note to those who [...]
Lindsay Lohan is in hot water again — she punched another woman in the face while in a Manhattan nightclub early Thursday, police sources said. Lohan was questioned, along with witnesses, at the NYPD’s 10th Precinct stationhouse. She is expected to be charged with misdemeanor assault for the 4 a.m dust-up inside Avenue, a [...]
One of the things that is always able to get a chuckle out of me is “science reporting” in the news. The sheer level of stunning ignorance on display always gives me hope for the employability of the mentally disadvantaged. Earlier this year the “big news” splashed across newspaper and web pages around the world [...]
A long time ago I used to play the game “Magic:The Gathering”. I even played in a tournament once, and won a few games before being sent home by a guy with a deck full of moxes and lotuses (lotii?) If you don’t know what moxes and lotii are, consider yourself lucky. Because the game [...]
I have been invited to join a group of shooting enthusiasts this Saturday for a full day of shooting prairie dogs on some private land where the owner of the land has deemed the prairie dogs to be dangerous pests which threaten his horses and cattle. The purpose of the activity appears to be a [...]
One of the things I have seen suggested by certain “scientists” over the past few decades is the idea that humanity’s evolution is no longer moving in a positive direction with regard to intelligence. A common theory is that because the day-to-day fight to survive pressure is no longer common in the industrialized world, humans [...]
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