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Alien technology found? Not so fast
There has been some media buzz that some objects found on the ocean floor are evidence of alien technology. However, the Harvard astronomer’s “alien spherules” are industrial pollutants. For technical details see:
A Note on the Kensington Runestone
Mia McDavid, my wife, suggested that I look at Geologist unearthed a mystery, then landed on TV in our local newspaper. It was about Scott Wolter, who believes that the Kensington Runestone is a genuine medieval artifact. I am generally skeptical of fringe scholarship claims. The reference to the Knights Templar immediately set off more alarms in my head.
The Bermuda Triangle
Why Do You Never Hear About The Bermuda Triangle Anymore? Because The Mystery Of The Bermuda Triangle Has Been Solved Yet Again. In fact, there never was a real mystery, as Larry Kusche showed in his book Bermuda Triangle Mystery – Solved, originally published in 1975. From the Amazon blurb:
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UFOs? OK. Alien Spacecraft? No so fast.
I found How Washington Got Hooked on Flying Saucers to be fascinating if somewhat depressing. “There is nothing new under the sun.”
This is a subject I have been watching from a safe distance for well over half a century, when I first read Martin Gardner’s Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Few books have influenced me more than this one).
I met J. Allen Hynek in my last year of high school, 1967-68, when I was a student in the Astro-Science Workshop (Still around although in a different format) at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. This program was organized and run by Hynek. Hynek was a pleasant and interesting speaker, and a good teacher, but he never spoke to us kids about UFOs.
Continue readingThe results of the AntiVax movment
How to create a monster
Faking History
The following is a parable about how history is written on the internet. Let’s imagine you have a web page and you want people to visit it. How could you get the history scoop of 2014? Well you could go and bribe some doctorate students, ask for an interview with a wanw professor, research an area to death and pontificate… What you don’t have time? Then why not just make it all up?!
Atheism and Sexism
I have been following this story for a while in some corners of the ‘net. Now it is reaching the wider world.
Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers
You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC
From a pediatrician:
It is because I never want patients in my office to contract vaccine-preventable illnesses … that patients whose parents refuse to vaccinate them are not welcome in my practice. I cannot entirely eliminate the potential for disease exposure between children who come to see me, but I can do my best to mitigate it. I never want to know that a child was sickened or killed because I let the recklessness of a vaccine-refusing parent jeopardize their health.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 