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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,…

Statistics

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…

Book review Philosophy

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.…

Book review Philosophy

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,…

Fun

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…

Culture

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,…

Culture

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…

Statistics

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…

Dave Bagwill on Complete List Of All Moral & Ethical Questions Answered By ScienceDecember 25, 2025
Took me a minute; thought my computer was acting up! Well done, and a Merry Christmas...
Brian (bulaoren) on Merry Christmas!December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas to you Dr. Briggs, and to all ye faithful (readers). A couple of days ago, I found myself…
Tars Tarkas on Merry Christmas!December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas Mr Briggs. Thanks for all the essays this year.
McChuck on Complete List Of All Moral & Ethical Questions Answered By ScienceDecember 25, 2025
Merry Christmas! "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's."
Cary D Cotterman on Complete List Of All Moral & Ethical Questions Answered By ScienceDecember 24, 2025
A quarter-inch-drive ratchet with a set of sockets doesn't answer any moral and ethical questions, but it's damned useful. Merry…