Trumped
The end of the world as we know it The Trump victory in the US presidential election is a victory for incoherence (also racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and denialism). During the…
Dan Moutal
RIP Leonard Cohen
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…
Chesterman Beach, Tofino
Chesterman Beach, Tofino
Hockey Stick, XKDC Style
Notice the change at the bottom of the graph? Anyway you look at it that sudden change is alarming. Click to embiggen —via XKCDIt is worth noting that, nothing presented…
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…
Downtown Vancouver skyline
and the iconic Science World
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Dancing Booby
A Dancing Blue-footed Booby showing off his stunning blue feet At Seymour Norte island in the Galapagos Islands
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…
We made it to the Galapagos
Be perfectly honest, do I have something on my face?
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
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…
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…
Paragliding in Ecuador
Almost chickened out… glad I didn’t.