At first, I thought a story on Tech.mic titled “Meet the People Who Believe the Earth Is Flat” was satire. You know, a parody of those zany conspiracy theorists who believe in such nonsense as chemtrails, gluten-free, the government staged…
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Dead Wild Roses: Gamma Rays – They can ruin your day.
I’m glad that our Universe is so large that we shouldn’t have to worry (much) about being erased as a species by a gamma ray burst. 🙂
Filed under: Science Tagged: Astrophysics, Death from Space, Kurzgesagt, Science
Dead Wild Roses: Snake Oil? – A guide.
Health fads come and go, some shouldn’t some should definitely make a quick exit. Here is a guide to the good and the bad.
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Dead Wild Roses: How Science Works…
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Breaking Space News: Perseids set to be extra-spectacular this year
Scientists are predicting the Perseid Meteor Shower will be extra-spectacular this year, with up to double the usual number of meteors – up to 200 per hour! Arb and I are probably not going to get to see them: the forecast is for clouds and rain a good portion of the night. If any of […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Leader Post: Publishing Anti-Facts
In response to Herb Pinder’s July 16th op-ed “Climate change alarmists ignore nature’s role”, I wonder if the Leader-Post has decided to publish conspiracy theories as reasonable opinions. I think many have heard of “young earth creationists” who contend the Earth is only 6000 years old, but it’s news to me there are people such […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Discovering DNA – The Woman You Don’t Hear About
Here is the new ‘joke’ – What did Watson & Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes. Rosalind Franklin’s Legacy When it comes to her place in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, Rosalind Franklin has not received fair treatment. Or so maintains Lynne Osman Elkin, a professor of biological sciences at California […]
Continue readingScripturient: Transcendance
It’s not surprising that AI replaced the biological form in the popular Frankenstein monster trope. In fact the smart-evil-machine scenario has been done so often this past decade or so that I’m more surprised any film writer or director c…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What Happened Before History?
Context is nice with regards to where we are and what we are doing in the world. Predictably, the religious find a great deal wrong with this video as it is based on reality as opposed to magic. 🙂 Filed under: History Tagged: History, Science, What Happened Before History
Continue readingScripturient: The Postmortal
Mortality. We all get it. It’s the one one incurable ailment all humans succumb to without a chance of succor. Mortality is always 100% fatal. No medicine, no therapy, no diet cure or magic pill. But as you read this, scientists are researching,…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Grandfather Paradox – Resolved? – Minute Physics
Oh, it was that easy? 🙂
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Dead Wild Roses: Lateral Discrimination Or, “No No No, take your other left!”
Lateral awareness, or the ability to discriminate left from right is an acquired skill. Most people have it by age 10 and most people start to lose in after age 50 (good times). Lateral awareness, of course, falls on a spectrum and here are the results so far: “A recent survey of 800 people […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Fermi Paradox – Kurzgesagt
The Fermi paradox or Fermi’s paradox, named after Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates, e.g. those given by the Drake equation, for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations.[1] The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) and Michael H. Hart (born 1932), are: […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What are You?
Human thought tends to function in binaries, but much of the reality we inhabit just doesn’t work that way.
Filed under: Philosophy, Science Tagged: Cells, Human thought, Philosophy, Reality, Science, What are you?
Dead Wild Roses: How Far Can Humanity Go?
When physics drops the hammer on your galaxy exploration dreams…
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Montreal Simon: The Amazing Rocket and America’s New Supergun
It's amazing what we humans can do when we push the boundaries of science.Like fire off this SpaceX rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, deploy a satellite.Then land the first stage on a so-called drone ship in the North Atlantic.And this is wh…
Continue readingScripturient: Not quite seven signs of the apocalypse
A 2014 story on Salon, titled 7 things Americans think are more plausible than man-made global warming made its way around Facebook again, recently. It lists seven statistics about things Americans believe in more than they believe that human activi…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Taxonomy of Candy
Innocuous start, but one can really see how complex a job classifying stuff can be. 🙂
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – The Big Bang
It is always nice to find a well put together video, and this one titled ‘The Beginning of Everything’ does a wonderful job of laying down the fundamentals of how our universe began.
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Dead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – The Limb of the Sun
Physics? On a Monday? Eeek!
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