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/ AUG 10, 2022  Science magazine reports that a marine biologist at the University of Delaware has committed scientific fraud by making up data supporting the idea that increasing the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere will increase the pH o...

/ MAY 14, 2023 Fifteen months ago a paper was published which scientifically killed the idea of man-made climate change. Kenneth Skrable, George Chabot, and Clayton French at the University of Massachusetts Lowell published (Health Physics 122(2):p 291-...

/ JUL 30, 2023 Empiricism: using observation as the only developer of scientific theory; no need to explain why a theory is so, and a massive dose of skepticism regarding any theory and explanation; Nullius in verba "Take no one's word for it." N...

/ DEC 26, 2023 One primary method of being stupid is to do things that bring you to a state opposite of your intentions. Like wanting higher crop yields so you kill all the birds that eat seeds, and discover that they also eat the bugs that consume the ...

/ FEB 20, 2024 A short post today: What is the difference between an activist scientist employed by an agency and a commercial employed by a business? One needs to be amazing to keep their job, the other has to be right to keep their job.  So which sc...

/ MAY 02, 2022 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, Khali...

/ OCT 14, 2022 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 a...

/ JUN 02, 2023 Why do universities hire professors? I doubt anyone asks this any more; professors are expected to be there and to teach the students. These questions are not being asked so much that even educators of educators don't know why professors...

/ DEC 14, 2023 Of the many bad outcomes of Fauci's funding the invention of Covid, a minority are from the health effects from the man-made virus itself. Most come from the government response to the virus. One of those responses was the lockout of chil...

/ MAR 22, 2024 About a decade ago the administration of UVU fell for an old MSEd (Master of Science of Education) trick: invent some stupid thing and claim it would revolutionize teaching. These "innovations" never do. MSEd's keep publishing that it wil...

/ NOV 05, 2021 I've always had a main hobby or "special interest," which switches to a new one serially, a sort of one-at-a-time obsession which never really fades away: Telescopes Science fiction Radios Nero Wolfe novels Old Time radio Computer...

/ FEB 23, 2022 All my servers appeared down the last couple days. I got Utopia fiber into the house after a ten-year wait, and they set me up on a private IP address, which meant that no ports got through to my servers. Servers have ports on which they ...

/ MAY 04, 2022 Okay, I'll say it here: I'm a fan of sumo wrestling.  It started back in the '90's when Akebono, an enormous Hawaiian guy, rose the the highest rank of Yokazuna, the first non-Japanese wrestler ever to do so. He was so popular that Ameri...

/ OCT 27, 2022  I have a lot of websites. I'll list them here so I can remember them all. All links open in a new window. https://radar.kf7k.com Live aircraft position reporting around my house https://cloud.kf7k.com  Private data cloud https://pho...

/ NOV 02, 2021 The desert is a strange place to live. I call it desert, and then I know that most of you think sand dunes. There's a big difference between desert and dunes. Dunes are boring unless you ride an ATV or are a photographer. Sand. More sand....

/ MAR 01, 2020 Please Hear What I'm Not Saying Don't be fooled by me.Don't be fooled by the face I wearfor I wear a mask, a thousand masks,masks that I'm afraid to take off,and none of them is me. Pretending is an art that's second nature with me,but ...

/ MAR 03, 2020 THE untold want, by life and land                                  ne’er granted,  Now, Voyager, sail thou forth,                                  to seek and find.   Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

/ MAR 14, 2022 Here at UVU they make us install a program called Identity Finder. The purpose is to locate all references to student's social security numbers and their credit card numbers.  We used to use SSN's for student IDs back in the early 2000's...

/ JUL 31, 2022 Nextcloud is a server software suite designed to be a do-it-yourself privately-hosted replacement for. Note: I'll strike out anything which turns out to be deficient in its claim. Google Drive/Amazon Drive/Microsoft Teams file storage ...

/ OCT 17, 2022 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 th...