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The Sad End Of Radio
July 3, 2025
Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!
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Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)
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Class 56: The Best Model!
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Sabine Hossenfelder’s Free Will Folly & The Deadly Sin Of Reification
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England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women
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On The Probability Of God
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Class 55: Models Vs Reality
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The Mathematics Of Conspiracy Theories. Part 1: Black Eye Club Example
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Class 54: Exchangeability & Parameters
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Over-Certainty Of Polygenic Scores
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AI & The Dilemma Of Technology
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What Are The Chances Thomas Jefferson & John Adams Died On The Fourth of July, 1826?
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Class 53: Laplace Was Right!
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Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering Out
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The Sad End Of Radio

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Let’s Play A Game Of Let’s Suppose!

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Modulation of Ice Ages – Without CO2 — Guest Post by Ralph Ellis
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Modulation of Ice Ages – Without CO2 — Guest Post by Ralph Ellis

Ellis sent me his paper "Modulation of Ice-ages via Precession and Dust-Albedo Feedbacks" in Geoscience Frontiers, and I found it rather intriguing. To greatly simplify: CO2 is good for you,…
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Lawyers Seek To Add Stock Of Lawyer Jokes By Demanding Oil Companies Be Prosecuted For Homicide
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Lawyers Seek To Add Stock Of Lawyer Jokes By Demanding Oil Companies Be Prosecuted For Homicide

We would none of us be shocked to learn a lawyer has latched onto a lawsuit designed to squeeze a wealthy corporation, a corporation whose business is no longer fashionable…
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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy
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Bringing Order To Disordered Views Of Entropy

This is the second post reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder's new book Existential Physics. First is my criticism of Many Worlds. If you are short of time, skip to the bottom today.…
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Why The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong: A New Objection
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Why The Many Worlds (Multiverse) Interpretation Of Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong: A New Objection

UPDATE I caused great confusion by putting the word "multiverse" in the title, when there is a whole other theory called "the" multiverse. Yet I did this because Hossenfelder herself,…
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The Easter Egg: A Coding Story — Guest Post by Jim Fedako
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The Easter Egg: A Coding Story — Guest Post by Jim Fedako

I am not talking about the plastic, candy-filled kind – the ones my wife, on Easter mornings, hands me by the dozen to hide throughout our yard, with more than…
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Meet The Experts Defining Official Disinformation & Official Truths
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Meet The Experts Defining Official Disinformation & Official Truths

We told you this was happening when it was happening. Not everybody believed it; indeed, most (and here I exclude regular readers) did not. And, worse, most still do not,…
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Pandering To Blacks Contest Sees San Francisco Take Commanding Lead
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Pandering To Blacks Contest Sees San Francisco Take Commanding Lead

Commentators expressed admiration, but not surprise, when San Francisco took what many are saying is a commanding lead in our once United States' National Black Pandering Contest. "There isn't anybody…
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An Instance Of How “The Science” Is Produced: Gender Equality Edition
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An Instance Of How “The Science” Is Produced: Gender Equality Edition

This post is, as they say, in the weeds. But it's necessary for those who want to know how The Science is produced. I saw a tweet, the veracity of…
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    John W, Garrett, You are welcome.

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    I'm sorry but must correct the record. I have been a radio fan since the early 1960s -- AM, FM,…

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    S.Sgt Briggs, Thanks for this near-perfect example of sophistry and thimble-rigging.

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