Has the world made progress on climate change since 2000? Nothing has changed on a scale that matters. Attitudes have certainly changed. Behavior, not so much—not corporate behavior and certainly not individual behavior. We’ve seen incremental change. What’s needed is transformational change.Read More
It’s January 15th, 2021. We have 10s of millions of people vaccinated, more each day. Daily cases of new COVID-19 infection also continue to rise, as do hospitalizations. Coronavirus sucks. We can all agree on that. Most of us, anyway. But where is anyone publishing data for those new COVID-19 cases cross-referenced with those new patient’s vaccine status? Like, was a new case vaccinated or not? If vaccinated, which brand of vaccine, how many doses, etcetera?
In COVID-19, the media industry finally found an alternative clickbait to Trump with a better click-through rate and a lower political cost. Many daily newspapers devote two-thirds of their headline articles to rehashed coronavirus fear-porn. Covering every angle? Not at all. That wouldn’t serve the mainstream media’s long-term purpose…Read More
Everybody’s waiting for a coronavirus vaccine and the media is full of hot takes, parsed to suit their politics and their audience. We’ve been tracking the reality of the vaccine progress. Here’s the August 2020 latest.Read More
All over the world, seemingly mild cases of COVID-19 rapidly morph into severe cases that involve the lower lungs. In a third or more cases this may be attributed to “the cytokine storm.” Find out more here.Read More
UNDER CONSTRUCTION At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive blackhole. UNDER CONSTRUCTION UNDER CONSTRUCTIONRead More
In a flash of inspiration, the truth about “teleportation” came to Merton Futon as he was watching an episode of Star Trek. In a few paragraphs he tries to explain why teleportation is – objectively speaking – a window into the way consciousness works and how, if it worked like in the movies, it would be an act of murder.
Agoston is a scientist and hasn’t much patience for human egomaniac fantasy – plus he’s renowned for not being swept up in the moment. In this short piece, he thinks about intelligent design and God and synthetic intelligence (AI) as it is and what maybe it’ll become.
Bertilak shares some research on psilocybin mushrooms and laboratory tested contents arranged by species of mushroom.
Our Local Group of galaxies is falling towards the gravity-centre of Laniakea. The Milky Way is falling towards Andromeda. The Sun is falling towards the centre of our galaxy. The Earth is falling towards the centre of the Sun. Everything on our planet is falling towards the centre of the Earth. Is that why they call it falling in love? WOMWOMWOM.Read More