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I saw the new Spiderman movie last night. More of the multiverse is in it. The idea that there are an infinite number of parallel universes, each inaccessible to the others, except in Marvel movies. Where did this idea come from, a parallel universe that we ...

Using plastic. Driving to work. Eating meat. Not recycling a paper plate. Being white. Being male. Watering your lawn. Someone wants you to feel guilty about each of these. Even when they don't apply. Or can't apply. They want you to feel guilty so that you w...

Before August, this is the CDC definition of a vaccine: Immunity: Protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected. Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to prod...

In the journal Inorganic Chemistry this week there is a cover article titled, "MnII/III and CeIII/IV Units Supported on an Octahedral Molecular Nanoparticle of CeO2", written by Sayak Das Gupta, Annaliese E. Thuijs, Ethan G. Fisher, Khalil A. Abboud and George...

Every time I hear the term "settled science" I think, "You're not doing it right." History is packed with examples of a "settled" science that was upended: The Ptolemaic universe was the only thing going, even with it's strange epicycles to explain the retr...

"Sodium forms a +1 ion because it wants to have a noble gas electron configuration." "Plants evolve because it gives them a higher chance of survival." "My truck wants a lot of gas when rock crawling." Each of these statements imply that inanimate objec...

Immigration to the U.S. was open and free until 1914. Anyone who wanted to come just needed to get to Ellis Island and in they came, provided they brought no disease with them. But to survive here they had to work, so they did and the economy benefitted very n...

I read a blog by a climate scientist, Roger Pielke Jr. He works on the UN climate reports. Recently he posted a book review preview, to be published in The New Atlantis (Summer 2022). The book was Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, And ...

One basic of a scientific theory is its ability to make predictions which can be tested. If those predictions are accurate, the theory holds. If they are not, the theory is wrong. This is Basic Science 101. Respectable scientists, seeing a prediction go bad, f...

I just read the first two paragraphs of Thomas Sowell's The Visions of the Anointed: Self-congratulations as the Basis of Social Policy, written in 1995, almost 30 years ago: Dangers to a society may be mortal without being immediate. One such danger is the...

“Science Which Is Not a Science . . .” Because of the success of science, there is, I think, a kind of pseudoscience. Social science is an example of a science which is not a science; they don’t do [things] scientifically, they follow the forms–or you gathe...

General education is having majors in one field take a smattering of freshman classes in other fields, beyond those which the professors in the major think are necessary. I guess it's that last part that is so bothersome: students take an entire year of extra...

A curious thing happened this weekend: my websites were listed by Google as being dangerous to visitors. A full red screen with warnings about my website, scaring all by the maniacs away. I was able to recover from this by doing one thing then asking for a ...

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"Level the curve" they said, by getting a vaccine. Well, this is the curve, in blue: In orange are the vaccines administered. What's wrong with the data, from the CDC? THE CURVE NEVER LEVELED! Deaths from COVID still rise at the same rate they did before t...

"Our comprehensive review of the major strands of research on serotonin shows there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with, or caused by, lower serotonin concentrations or activity." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 "T...

Democrats are really socialists. Antifa ("anti-fascists") are really fascists. "Trust the science" is used to buttress an opinion. "Green" is really high tech. Recycling puts more plastic trash in the Pacific ocean than any other source. George Orwell rea...

Introduction Large format. To some photographers it means an old technique that isn't needed any more, to others it means an esoteric type of photography used only for very specialized needs, and to some of us, it's the only true form of photography! The ol...

Overview                                                                                     This article should be printed in landscape orientation. While it may seem daunting at first, it really is possible for you to develop and print color film at home. ...

The Modern Camera, And the Dilution of Effort. An Essay on the Loss of Craft in Photography                             This article should be printed in landscape orientation.     IN 1870, Dr. Ferdinand Hayden led an Army survey expedition into the Yellowst...