Words that feel especially poignant right now. Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
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Mind of Dan: Chesterman Beach, Tofino
Chesterman Beach, Tofino
Continue readingMind of Dan: Hockey Stick, XKDC Style
Notice the change at the bottom of the graph? Anyway you look at it that sudden change is alarming.
It is worth noting that, nothing presented here is new, but XKCD author Randall Munroe is a master in making complex topics and difficult to grasp issues of scale easily approachable.
Continue readingMind of Dan: How the media gets science wrong
John Oliver explains it nicely, the instead of the imaginary TODD conference, I recommend the very real Bad ad Hoc Hypotheses Festival BAHfest!
Or If you prefer the news cycle in comic format PhD Comics has you covered:
Continue readingMind of Dan: Downtown Vancouver skyline
and the iconic Science World
Continue readingMind of Dan: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
20 Years ago John Perry Barlow published the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace:
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.
Continue readingMind of Dan: So much for change south of the border.
Now it is just more of the same, regardless of who ultimately wins: Lessig quits presidency bid, blames political system he wanted to change See this for a good, succinct, explanation of the problem Lessig is trying to solve
Continue readingMind of Dan: Harper Conservatives: The anti-data party
If we are going to survive this century, we need to move away from decision-based evidence-making and truly make evidence-based decisions. Public access to publicly funded science would help ensure that the government relies on the facts, not on ideology. Science is too important to democracy to be kept in
Continue readingMind of Dan: The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment
Originally published by John Dupuis Apr 2006. One Tonne Challenge funding stopped Apr 2006. Tories muzzle environmental scientist Mark Tushingham, told not to appear to promote his novel about climate change (More info: 1.) May 2006. Environmental Groups Call on Ambrose to Resign as Chair of International Kyoto Negotiations Oct 2006. Circumpolar ambassador job axed Oct
Continue readingMind of Dan: This
And when I think about it, a lot of “things I want to do” are just learning about and discussing new tools for tinkering with the chain.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Bah 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.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Dancing Booby
A Dancing Blue-footed Booby showing off his stunning blue feet At Seymour Norte island in the Galapagos Islands
Continue readingMind of Dan: Curious Sea Lions
This curious sea lion was very interested in the little blue box (camera) I was holding Our last full day in the Galapagos ended with a swim with 4 curious young sea lions. It was all fun and games until the beachmaster showed up.
Continue readingMind of Dan: We made it to the Galapagos
Be perfectly honest, do I have something on my face?
Continue readingMind of Dan: Our time in Baños was well spent
Paragliding at sunset one day and looking out over the Amazon the next. The Amazon, shortly after a downpour Paragliding at sunset
Continue readingMind of Dan: A new normal
Unsurprisingly XKCD nails it, but head on over there to read the mouseover text, I am sure it perfectly describes more than a few Planet3.0 readers (and writers!). And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
Continue readingMind of Dan: 1000 ways to die in Ecuador
Way #256: Becoming Arapaima food These carnivorous arapaima were 2.5 meters long and very hungry Thankfully they don’t have any teeth so all their food has to fit down their throats, so we were relatively safe. Way #512: This No one in their right mind would ever get on a
Continue readingMind of Dan: Paragliding in Ecuador
Almost chickened out… glad I didn’t.
Continue readingMind of Dan: Traveling to the land of Boobies…
… The blue footed variety of course source: http://seemorepictures.blogspot.ca/2012/11/the-blue-footed-boobie.html
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