How’d We Do On Our 2019 Predictions?
A strong no prize this year. Nobody did well enough. Not enough specific predictions, or those that were specific did not come to pass. Doom predictions are too easy: they…
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Help With Reality-Based Catholic Climate Declaration
Update If you're interested in this, please send this post to those you think may be interested. Update 2 Please see the Classic Posts page for material on global warming,…
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Road Rage: Paper Says Living Near Road Causes Dementia
Dust is thrilling researchers these days. Dust, or the more scientific sounding PM2.5, is the next greatest struggle after global warming. We've already seen attempts to prove dust, as measured…
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Six Thousand Years Of History
If you ask a physicist "Why can't objects go faster than light? That there should be a limit doesn't seem right to me", he will abuse you. He'll start off…
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Special Midweek Doom — AI Won’t Save The Right Edition
The Doom is piling up faster than I can shovel it out. Item Amazon's Facial Recognition Software Found To Be Racist, Sexist ...one thing I didn't see coming was allegations…
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The Horrors That Await If They Get Away With Stealing The Election
IT'S WHO COUNTS THE VOTES I predicted that unless there was wholesale cheating Trump would win. There was, is, wholesale cheating. There isn't an educated soul anywhere that doesn't know…
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The Doomsday Argument Is Doomed: Flawed Application Of Bayes
The WSJ on 27 June 2019 published an essay by William Poundstone on the hoary Doomsday Argument. Many are fooled by this equation, which contains a fundamental, even glaring, flaw.…
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This Week In Doom — Cartoon Pr0n Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9GaUea-Pk Still exploring video, and neglecting script. This one doesn't quite reach amateurish level. Getting there, though. Item 20 Dirty Jokes That Were Secretly Hidden in the Kids' Cartoons of…
