Successful Predictions
This talk, by Ray Pierrehumbert, is an excellent response to Naomi Oreskes’ observation that: “climate scientists are so busy talking about stuff they don’t understand that they never get around to...
View ArticleTEDx on spotting pseudoscience
TEDx has recently been used as a platform for pseudoscience, and in response they have published an open letter full of good advice on how non experts can spot pseudoscience. The letter makes it clear...
View ArticleQuote of the day
We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it. -Jean-Claude Juncker Talking about financial reforms, but the exact same situation applies to climate/sustainability.
View ArticleThe largest iceberg break-up ever filmed
I find it hard to fully comprehend the scale of it
View ArticleAbout that IPCC cosmic rays game changer…
… or nothing to see here. Move along folks. All of this cosmic nonsense was pre-debunked by Richard Alley in his great AGU talk from 2009 titled: The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s...
View ArticleThe web we lost
I might sound old when I start rambling about the way things used to be, but Anil Dash’s post about how the web used to be before the rise of walled gardens like Facebook is definitely must read: So...
View ArticleThe web we lost: XKCD edition
XKCD sums up the problem perfectly: I’m gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible.
View ArticleThe relativity of wrong
A recent comment on Planet3.0 gave me an excuse to post a link to Isaac Asimov’s excellent essay on the Relativity of wrong, and I realized that I had never posted it here. So here it is for the...
View ArticleBah Humbug!
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. (via xkcd) That is all.
View ArticleThe colour of hot or inadequate heatmaps
The recent Australasian heatwave has been so unprecedented that the Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has had to add a new colour (purple) to represent the hottest region: But the Australia’s Bureau of...
View ArticleAaron Swartz, 1986-2013
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity -Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013 This past weekend open-access advocate and activist Aaron...
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