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Category Archives: Science
The Synergism of Intelligent Minds: Jordan Peterson, Andrew Huberman
The video interaction between psychologist Jordan Peterson and neuroscientist Andrew Huberman is a classic example of what happens when two intelligent minds meet on the same wavelength in order to share cutting edge knowledge. Each man has his areas of … Continue reading
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Nicotinamide Riboside and Cancer Risk: A Manufactured Panic
A popular nutritional supplement, Nicotinamide Riboside, which has been shown to be protective against a wide array of human ailments — including multiple types of cancer — is being accused by popular media sources of being a cause of cancer! … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Media, Propaganda, Science
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What is Positronium, and Where Can I Get Some?
Positronium is an atom without a nucleus, an example of an “exotic” atom. At this time, positronium can only be made inside a particle accelerator. It looks like this: Positronium is composed of an electron, with a negative charge, circling … Continue reading
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Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of Experts
We live in a pandemic of political correctness, which demands the brainless repetition of daily talking points from official experts. But rational actors must see the evidence for themselves, and will automatically disregard the “experts” in order to get at … Continue reading
When Gaia Met Theia: The Blobs Remember
Garnero speculates, the dense, distinct piles might even be fragments of Theia itself, forever interred in the deep Earth. __ Quanta Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when Earth and the solar system were very young, a giant Mars-sized planet is … Continue reading
A Long List of Top Science Websites in 2019
Here are a few dozen of the best-rated science websites this past year: Science News Sites Science News Live Science Phys.org EurekAlert! Sciencemag PopSci The Scientist Nature Science Daily Discover Quanta Ars Technica Smithsonian Cosmos Scientific American Space Chemistry World … Continue reading
Stories for Heretics and Social Ruffians
Common Biases in Science that Slow Progress to a Crawl A look at some psychological handicaps shared by even the most intelligent scientists, by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: Take for example loss aversion. This is more commonly known as “throwing good … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Knowledge, Science
Tagged Philosophy
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Science: What it Is
Science is a Verb Science is an active and systematic way of building knowledge upon knowledge. We call it “the scientific method:” The steps of the scientific method go something like this: Make an observation or observations. Ask questions about … Continue reading
Jordan Peterson vs. the “Mad Dog Atheists”
Conscious Intelligence is Not a Logical Proposition Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has staked out a large territory in the sphere of public discussion, which borders on several distinctly different areas of thought and belief. These multiple “boundary lines” have become … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Jordan Peterson, Knowledge, Machine Intelligence, Science
Tagged logical fallacies
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Good Science Has Nothing to Do With University Degrees
The Slowing of Scientific Discovery The “Science Establishment” is spitting out PhDs, journal articles, and scientific data at record levels. But something happened along the way to our sci-tech utopia. Has scientific progress actually slowed in recent decades, despite a … Continue reading
A World Ripe for Disruption
The global economy has been in a state of rapid ferment for several decades. Although the US has operated the world’s largest national economy for the past 127 years, some of the world’s other former economic giants are beginning to … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Draining the Swamp, Economics, Future, Genetics and Gene Expression, geopolitics, Peter Zeihan, Politics, Science, Space Future, Technology
Tagged geopolitics
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Understanding Cycles of Oxygen, Water, and Carbon
The Oxygen Cycle Notice that most of the Earth’s oxygen is tied up in the lithosphere — planetary rock. Atmospheric levels of oxygen can rise and fall, naturally, and have done so over billions of years. Major reservoirs involved in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Green Quagmire, Science
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, doom, Green Corruption, Science
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Falling Through the Earth’s Centre: How Long to Reach the Other Side?
The gravitational effects on a body falling through the centre of the Earth to the other side, is an interesting problem. The video above introduces an idea or two which may be new to you, even if you have thought … Continue reading
More Predictions for a New “Little Ice Age”: Winter is Coming
Do Not Fear the Warming: Fear the Killing Cold British scientist Valentina Zharkova and her team at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom… predicted that a coming periodic reduction in the sun’s radiation will soon lead to major global cooling. … Continue reading
Computer Models are Powerful — But Often Misused — Tools
“Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, is false.” Currently, Computer Models are Ridiculous Failures — At Least When Used in Climate The real … Continue reading
Making Government Unnecessary: Brew Your Own Drugs and Chemicals at Home
Automated Molecular Synthesis vs. Biosynthesis of Drugs The image above displays Martin Burke’s molecule-making machine. It is capable of automated chemical synthesis, sometimes described as a “3D Printer for Chemicals.” The machine is meant to facilitate the automated synthesis of … Continue reading
“Climate Heretics” vs. the Climate Apocalypse Cult
The modern “climate apocalypse” movement is bringing a cult of fanaticism back to Paris. And like all cults, it has its heretics that it would like to burn, behead, and mutilate. One of the top climate heretics, a scientist who … Continue reading
Grow an Army of Superhumans Using Affordable Artificial Wombs
Are We Approaching the Age of Effective and Affordable Artificial Wombs? Womb transplants are already here. These transplanted wombs would likely be disposable — they would be removed after successful birth by C-section — and thrown away. These transplanted wombs … Continue reading
Neurogenesis: Induced and Natural
More Avenues of Hope for Damaged Brains Induced Neurogenesis for Research and Regeneration Researchers have discovered two ways to create neurons from a person’s own skin cells: The first way is by creating induced pluripotent stem cells, which are then … Continue reading
Posted in Human Brain, Regenerative Medicine, Science
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What Does the Sun Have to Do With Climate?
The near future will be extremely interesting. I think it is important to accept that Nature pays no heed to what we humans think about it. Will the greenhouse theory survive a significant cooling of the Earth? Not in its … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Folly of Prediction, Groupthink, Knowledge, Science, Sun
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, sun
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Human Brain — The Undiscovered Country
[One] region of the brain that is masculinized during development is the amygdala, which in addition to its roles in the processing of emotions is a key region regulating social play behavior by juveniles, sometimes called rough-and-tumble play, which differs … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Connectome, Creativity, Dysgenics, Human Brain, IQ, Machine Intelligence, Science, Sex Differences
Tagged Brain Connections, human brain
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Malthusian Monkeys Screech of Doom
Update: New steel alloy has strength to weight ratio of titanium at one tenth the cost (Nature Abstract) When Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, and John Harte wagered Julian Simon $10,000 that the cost of commodities and natural resources would always … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Creativity, Doom, Fertility, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Materials, Natural Resources, Ocean, Optimism, Peak Oil, Science, Technology
Tagged Green Corruption, Green Idiocy, TFR
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DARPA Interested in New Syn-Bio Discovery
The US defence agency DARPA has awarded a $32 million contract to a Boston area partnership that has also, coincidentally, developed a potentially revolutionary new approach to the powerful CRISPR gene editing toolkit. More NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The Broad … Continue reading
Posted in Genetics and Gene Expression, Science, Technology
Tagged 3D Printing, Disruptive Technologies
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Why are Climate Models so Estranged from Reality
Update: Blockbuster report on how temperature data has been altered to create a faked warming trend. What if it has all been one big lie? Why do climate models predict apocalyptic levels of warming that do not match up with … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Doom, Folly of Prediction, Groupthink, Science
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, heretics, intelligent sceptics
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Genes Out of Thin Air, and Other Wonders
Human DNA comprises 98% non-coding DNA and only 2% coding DNA. But that is not the end of the story. Noncoding DNA is defined as all of the DNA sequences within a genome that are not found within protein-coding exons, … Continue reading
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