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A Win for Reality over Ideology
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After the volcano: Earthly powers
It is a peculiar, if blessed, sort of natural disaster in which nobody dies.
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One of the things that went missing in the shadow of that volcanic dust was a sense of human power. And as with the quiet skies, this absence found a welcome in many hearts. The idea that humans, for all their technological might, could be put in their place by this volcano—this obscure, unpronounceable, C-list volcano—was strangely satisfying, even thrilling.
Climate Crank Inadvertently Does Archaeology a Favour
See Aardvarchaeology
The whole thing is pretty pointless from a climate-historical perspective as the trees are known to record summer rainfall well, but not temperature. To archaeology and dendrochronology, however, it is in my opinion excellent news. Academic dendrochronology needs a new open-source business model if it is to act as a fully scientific discipline. The Belfast ruling is a step in the right direction, even though it has been forced for the wrong reasons.
In response to Climate sceptic wins landmark data victory ‘for price of a stamp’
Updates on life
My Favorite Academic Prank
The Sokal hoax came out in 1996, not too far from AFD. I first read about it in the restrained pages of Physics Today, but I like Salon’s account. I have never been able to take postmodernism seriously since then. H.L. Mencken would have loved it. See also
Happy Lady Ada Day!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day
In accordance with the Pledge, I would like to recognize the work of Margaret Geller . She and John Huchra discovered the Great Wall. This is one of the largest objects in the universe: Over 500 million light years long. That is 5,000 times the diameter of our entire galaxy.
My contribution last year is here.
Nuts at the Puff Ho
Vaccines and autism: Collected links
At the breakfast table this morning this subject came up, so I decided to put together this collection. It did not take long:
- AntiAntiVax: The Truth About The Evils Of Vaccination. A summary of the real medical evidence.
- Why do media report ‘the other side’ of scientific fact? by haddayr
- 5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News.
- An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
- Jenny McCarthy: spreading more dangerous misinformation
- Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On?”
This is not an academic issue for me and mia_mcdavid.
Also, I have a big personal issue with the idea that anecdotes and media fluff are the same as real science: Back in the ’90’s somebody who followed that stuff once suggested that I had abused my children.
The dark side of dolphins
We humans love to get close to these clever, cute and cuddly sea-creatures, but do you know how they treat their women in the world of dolphin debauchery? Do you really want to?
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 