Advance To The High Ground
The good winds of ChangeScientists are studying up on the skills required to properly convey an unpleasant but necessary message to the public.They are concerned with informing the public without...
View ArticleThe Name of the Same is "Athena"
gt = sl - roOne thing that the residents of New Jersey, Virginia, New York, as well as their bordering states, do not need is another storm coming down on them while they are recovering from the last...
View ArticleHow Science Defeated The Republican Pollsters
Nate Silver - He got Game Baby!The statistical scientist Nate Silver did it again this election cycle.Regular readers know that Dredd Blog observes Nate Silver's enquiries before and during elections...
View ArticleGerrymandering - Geological Deceit? - 3
Several times prior to the election I repeated an earlier statement I had made, exclaiming that the President would win reelection by 3% popular vote.I went on to say that Democrats would pick up one...
View ArticleA History of Oil Addiction - 3
Don't tell the captivesIn this series we are discussing, at a high level above the fine print and above the minutia, a history of the fossil fuel industry, and how that industry has control and/or...
View ArticlePropagandizing For Our Lords
Imperial EvangelismIntroduction In past posts Dredd Blog has considered the damage that propaganda does to the human psyche (see e.g. Etiology of Social Dementia through Etiology of Social Dementia -...
View ArticleDoctors of Philosophy Make Phd. Mistakes
Dr. Who, Phd.The old saying "doctors bury their mistakes" is spreading to other areas, including civilization itself.For example, in the U.S. suicide is the number one cause of injury death by...
View ArticleFalse Climate Change Meme Infects The President
Catch a single weather event?The meme that will be discussed today has infected meteorologists, some climate scientists, and the President as well, but has not infected all Fifth Graders.As will be...
View ArticleOn The Peak of Intelligence - 2
R&D IntelligenceThe first post in this series took some time to explain that intelligence and sanity are not the same concept.A person can be quite intelligent and quite insane at the same time,...
View ArticleWhen Accountability Is A Plague - 3
One of the several pillars of democracy is accountability.To the people accountability is sweet, but to the politicians and other government officials who are held accountable by the people, it is...
View ArticleMars: Analyzing Layers of History - 3
This is a series where I keep an eye on the developments happening on the planet Mars.It involves watching the NASA video and sound conferences where NASA updates us with the latest events with the...
View ArticleOut of Sight Out of Mind
Smog of the visible sortIn the 1960's the smog was so thick in some U.S. cities you could not see more than a block down the street at times.Some may ask: "Isn't smog which we can see worse than smog...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of Bright Things
Astrophysics: "the nature of stars"The two Greek words that are used to form the English word "astrophysics" are "astro" meaning star, and "physis" meaning nature.Hence, the meaning of "astrophysics"...
View ArticleThe Government of MOMCOM: Wartocracy - 3
"The Fiscal Cliff" is Wartocracy PropagandaIn this series Dredd Blog has been focusing on the evolution of the government and the nation from once being generally a peaceful, helpful nation into being...
View ArticleBook Politics Makes Strange Duplicities - 2
Will the real Sarah please stand up?On this date in 2009 Dredd Blog noted an interesting bit of trivia.Sarah Palin met a person who could have passed for her twin sister.String theory anyone?Anyway...
View ArticlePeak Agriculture
Buffalo skulls & buffalo huntersDoes it ever stop?In addition to global warming induced climate change and rising sea levels, now it looks like we have to also start worrying about "peak...
View ArticleThe Doha, Qatar UN Word Wide Machine
International gatherings are beginning to function like "Going Over The Cliff" gatherings in Washington, D.C. in terms of solving big problems.The current implementation of meetings to display the...
View ArticleWeekend Rebel Science Excursion - 12
Quantum Physics ReviewOne thing that separates people who are trying to be honest from deliberately dishonest folk is the way they handle facts that counter their belief or knowledge.Sometimes those...
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