How would embracing quantum thinking change the way we think about ourselves, the way we think about others, what we put out into the world? And what would that mean in the context of the Climate Emergency? How would that change our response to what we’re bombarded with on the
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Things Are Good: iNaturalist Goes Its Own Way
Way back in 2011 we took at a new app that helps to identify the world around, back then it was to help the California redwoods. That app is iNaturalist and it’s had a great decade plus of identifying all sorts of plants and animals. The app, which has a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Sex Matters
A good portion of what you need to defend the reality we all share.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Stop Using This Risible Article to Defend Your Gender Astrological Beliefs
We’ve all seen it and groaned inwardly when one of the gender-chosen trots out this SciAm chestnut. Here it is, refuted in less than 10 minutes. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Climate Education – A Balance Perspective
Let’s look at the data and facts and see what happens. Find a quiet place in your consciousness away from some of the current climate alarmism and review some ideas that may not fall completely in lockstep with the narrative. This except from ‘How to Teach Children About Climate Change‘:
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Good News, and Bad News
First, the bad news. A study suggests that the process of cold water currents in the Atlantic Ocean are at risk of changing rapidly this century, earlier than predicted from past models. 2025 could bring the tipping point, or 2050, we don’t know yet. This is being driven by climate
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Seeing out the Holocene?
We are experiencing a truly momentous event. For 11,700 years we have been living in the epoch our geologist kin call the Holocene. Now they may be about to announce that we have entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, one we created all by ourselves. What an achievement! We may
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Skywells in Chinese Architecture
Thanks to the BBC for their essay on Skywells. A skywell, or “tian jing” (天井) in Mandarin, is a typical feature of a traditional home in southern and eastern China. Different from a northern Chinese courtyard, or “yuan zi” (院子), a skywell is smaller and less exposed to the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Debunking Myths about the Biology of Sex – ICONS Conference
Science Saturday folks. Drink it in. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Importance of Shared Language and Shared Meanings in Society
Objective truth, outside of philosophy, needs to make a comeback in society. “Increasingly, Western societies – especially the English-speaking countries – are becoming two different peoples speaking two very different languages and believing in two modes of living. One camp believes in some form of objective truth and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner discuss how even crucial advances like vaccines are under threat due to the ruthlessly persistent anti-science message being used to excuse continuing disregard for human health. And Jonathan Watts reports on new research showing that we’re reaching dangerous climate
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mitchell Beer writes about the Canada Energy Regulator’s recognition that the future will involve far less fossil fuel use than the oil industry and its spokespuppets want us to believe. And Marc Fawcett-Atkinson discusses how biomethane is just another distraction intended to turn
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dear Health Authority Without The Infection Control
To follow up my Dear Premier letter, Dear Saskatchewan Health Authority: Your capable employees had booked me for a routine appointment at a hospital in Regina. To get to my appointment, I’d have to run the gauntlet to the admissions desk where I could be exposed to potentially bio-hazardous air
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tom’s Dispatched – Worried about the AI.
Well if your anxiety plate was not already full, how about a machine driven take over of the world? Unlikely, but yet another dystopian vision of the future that we humans could potentially realize. Yay Us! “And of course, that’s almost the good news when, with our present all-too-Trumpian
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Real Biologists State the Facts and Castigate Woke Interloper
The people who falsely claim authoritative knowledge are being called out, loudly in public. About goddamn time. “We evolutionary biologists (@SwipeWright , @Evolutionistrue , @FondOfBeetles and others) are fascinated by the immense diversity in body and behavior of male and female organisms. We also understand that mammals come
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: If We Don’t Report It, It Doesn’t Exist
There's a clear reason this happened, and satirists around the world are noting it.https://t.co/QKs3LPOsXR — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) April 17, 2023 On the eve of this Roughriders season, it's a reminder that government transparency matters. Information matters. The province's inability to comply with its own legislation matters. — Alexander
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Debunking A MAGA Video Against EVs
I got a mass email two days ago with a video attached of the Republican McClintock spouting lies and misdirection about EVs, oil, climate change, and his place in history. The sender apparently didn’t realize how they were being manipulated into sending misinformation to their contacts. “Harry sent this to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mammoth Ideas For Past, Present, and Future – Sweetish Meatballs
Bread, beef and milk will be artificially produced pic.twitter.com/4AYs2kHe3N — Paul Fairie (@paulisci) March 27, 2023 Not now, meatball created from long exti wait what? pic.twitter.com/gXbcHg4aGU — tern (@1goodtern) March 28, 2023 They took extinct mammoth DNA, repaired it with elephant DNA, used sheep stem cells for replication, and created
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