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Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?
November 5, 2026
After The Elections, The Book
November 4, 2026
The Solution To Evolution
November 2, 2026
Class 99: Entropy Part I
October 29, 2026
Book Update: Launch Date
October 28, 2026
Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism Manifesto
October 26, 2026
Class 98: Limitations of Genetic Associations With Personality
October 22, 2026
I’m Thinking Of A Number Between 1 and 5 (that you can’t guess)
October 21, 2026
Against Numerology: Some Basic Calculations
October 19, 2026
Class 97: The Goal Of Models
October 15, 2026
Book Update
October 14, 2026
Sexual Assault Galore At Cornell
October 12, 2026
Class 96: Can Bayesianism Quantify True Belief?
October 8, 2026
Top 10 Reasons AI Will Never Become Superintelligence: It Won’t Destroy Nor Save Us
October 5, 2026
Viewer Asks: Why Do I Bother?
October 1, 2026
Academics Call For The Killing Of Babies In “After-Birth” Abortions
September 30, 2026
Irrational Rationalists: Effective Altruists & The Planet of the Ants
September 28, 2026
Class 95: Answering P-Value Good Uses Challenges
September 25, 2026
Whoring For Climate Change
September 23, 2026
Lady Academics Tire Of Being Judged By Peer Review
September 21, 2026
Class 94: Quantifying The Unquantifiable
September 17, 2026
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Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?

Posted by By Briggs November 5, 2026
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After The Elections, The Book

Posted by By Briggs November 4, 2026
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U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Skeptical Climate Scientists

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works has released an addendum to its list of 400-plus scientists who express some level of skepticism about man-made global warming. I…
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Hurricane paper featured on AIR-Worldwide

Roger Pielke, Jr., who's at the University of Colorado Center for Science Technology Policy Research, has written a year-end summary of the 2007 hurricane season. The summary appears in two…
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Now only 32.8% of people believe the polls: Did New Hampshire let us down?

Last week we looked at how the polls did in Iowa. How badly did the polls in the New Hampshire race do in yesterday's Democrat primary? Here are the results:…
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An unfortunate loss of a good joke: leftist thinking finally overtakes math parody

There was an old, and sadly funny joke about the Evolution of Math Quizzes that went like this: 1960s A logger cuts and sells a truckload of lumber for $100.…
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Don Imus sidekick makes a point with a failed joke

Just heard Don Imus, who was attempting to explain why he wasn't being sarcastic when he said "At least [George Bush] did something right" because we have not been attacked…
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A safe, but misleading, prediction about global warming

Reuters's, on 3 January, had this headline, "2008 to be in top 10 warmest years say forecasters." A quote: 2008 will be slightly cooler than recent years globally but will…
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Asinine comparison of holocaust deniers and honest scientists

Some guy named Joel Connelly at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has written another one of those "We must do something now" global warming articles. What makes his piece distinct is that…
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Posted inPhilosophy

Mr. Word’s definition of the day: to change

"To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance." --…
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  1. Francois Stallbom on Book Update: Launch DateNovember 7, 2026

    Cant wait! Just finished reading book one for the second time with great enjoyment.

  2. Briggs on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 7, 2026

    Gareth, Switch to the Brave browser. You will thank me. No ads. Been using it for years.

  3. gareth on The Solution To EvolutionNovember 7, 2026

    Read the post. Interesting. Tried to watch the YT video linked. Riddled with adds. Not interested.

  4. hudbwu on Reading Bryan Johnson’s The Immortalism ManifestoNovember 5, 2026

    I dunno man, Jesus has been promising me eternal life. He even said I'll have it whether I want to…

  5. Neil Jordan on Class 100: Watch The Skies! But Only During Nuclear Tests?November 5, 2026

    Let me throw some fat on the fire - radioactive fallout particles on photographic materials. There are many references on…

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