Tag: science
Dead Wild Roses: What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once β In a Nutshell
Good to know, I suppose.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Climate Change Deniers Rally in Regina
A sorry excuse for a rally is under way in Regina today. It’s a grouchy band of malcontents and [muted] racists who share a dislike for science and the Prime Minister. Shame on the Premier for associating with #climatechange Deniers and promoting their protest against science and against pollution reduction.#skpoli
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What Is Most Important
Is it a big deal that rich MPs, MLAs, and MPPs have to pay $3 more to fill their SUVs? Not at all. Is it a big deal that Canada is already warming much faster than the rest of the world? Could there be a bigger news story? You know
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Joe Oliver Is Trash Like the Financial Post
Canada has had some bad Ministers of Finance, but can you think of a stinkier one than Oliver in his time since being tossed? Just yesterday the odious Financial Post published a factually incorrect account of climate change, for the benefit of fossil fuel companies which Oliver serves. The climate
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Meteor Explodes Over Ocean in 2018
A video showing the smoke trail from the #Meteor over the Bering Strait last December, produced using data from @JMA_kishou's #Himawari satellite.The orange meteor trail in the middle, shadow above-left. Hi-res copy: https://t.co/EXn8sFb556 pic.twitter.com/X54InkvMnl — Simon Proud (@simon_sat) March 19, 2019 The powerful meteor that no one saw (except satellites
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is a Fourier Series?
More reasons why Math is cool and concomitantly, why oh why don’t we get to do cool things like this in school.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Mandelbrot Set
Don’t like math, but I do love what you can do with it. π
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Banch-Tarski Paradox β 30 Minutes of Deliciously Broken Brain.
This is great stuff.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Math β The Josephus Problem
Not a big fan of math, but it’s certainly neat to watch the thought processes.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Laminar Flow is AWESOME
Gonna have to agree with him on this one. π
Continue readingScripturient: Local media is letting us down
Rule number one in The Elements of Journalism is: “journalism’s first obligation is to the truth.” Number three is “Its essence is a discipline of verification.” Keep those two in mind as you read this. I recognize that local reporting is not always the same calibre as the investigative journalism
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Is Organic Food Really Better?
Seasonal is the true organic.
Continue readingScripturient: What is science? Itβs not this stuff.
Recently in a Facebook post, two of us were squabbling in typical Facebook-fashion over “alternative medicine” and related treatments (many of which came into the discussion as links to pseudoscience and/or charlatan’s websites). As is my wont, I continued to debunk these with links to actual medical sites and discussions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: AGW β The Great Dithering
Β We humans are really bad at responding to the necessity of long term change.Β It doesn’t help that we also happen to be locked into political systems that strongly bias short term thinking and solutions.Β I’m thinking when most of Florida is underwater and New York City looks more
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