November 2009 Archives
We are in an ice age. Over the last 2.5 million years we have experienced about twenty periods of glaciation and a similar number of interglacial periods. The current, warm, interglacial period is ending.
Continue reading Living in an Ice Age.
A post-modern scientist is determined to test the sensitivity of a frog's response to the spoken command "jump."
Continue reading Of deafness and frogs.
Keith Briffa and others have used measurements of tree rings in Siberia to estimate the local variations in temperature over the past 2,000 years, and to support an integrated "Global Warming" view of climate change over the last decades and centuries.
The sum of the evidence is that their hypothesis is simply false. Worse, they have deliberately been manipulating the evidence, and withholding data, in order to promote their hypothesis.
Continue reading Scientific Fraud: the Briffa case.
This is apparently ascribed to Napoleon. But suspicion and conspiracy theories are more fun!
What Jesus and his Christian followers say:
Submit. Believe! or else Rot in Hell.
Continue reading Jesus hates you.
When did the human experience, the precious moments of our limited days, become a recipient for whatever some marketing freakazoid decided to throw at the masses? is our destiny to passively, endlessly subject ourselves to advertisement? is the meaning of our time on Earth to be victims of branding?
Cattle gets branded. I refuse to be subjected to the same treatment.
Apple's filed a patent on a design for a device that won't let its owner use it unless that person demonstrates that she has complied with an advertiser's demands by paying attention to an ad and taking some action indicating her dutiful attention.
What is a conservative? someone who clings to tradition, no matter what it is.
Continue reading Nuts in the Corner.
