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An Unneeded Prophecy: The Warning, Or The Illumination of Conscience

Long-time readers will know I'm a sucker for end-time prophecies, the subject being of obvious fascination (forecasts of every kind are my avocation). Every time a priest in his wisdom…

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Ignorant Brat Greta Thunberg Calls For & Walks Back Lining Her Enemies Up Against The Wall

I saw on Twitter a well-intentioned, normally rational priest say he was sad, right before he admonished Trump, because he, Trump, dared to tease ignorant brat Greta Thunberg. She was…

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The Most Depressing Places On Earth

This post originally ran 30 January 2013. When my number one son was young he saw a TV show in which a group of people were scurrying about in an…

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On That Climate-Change-Now-Detectable-From-Any-Single-Day-Of-Weather Paper

The peer-reviewed paper is "Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale" by Sippel and Knutti an others in Nature: Climate Change. Look at that…

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The Ignorant Lead The Misinformed On Strike

It should not be considered hurtful or insulting to call somebody ignorant when this somebody knows naught about the subject on which she is preaching. If even I, for example,…

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Winnowing the COVID-19 Numbers — Guest Post by John Carver

This idependent article shows how confusing counting coronavirus deaths are. Regular readers, no Doom tomorrow. This is going to be a preliminary investigation into the COVID-19 numbers being presented hourly…

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How Ignorance & The Elite Created Our New Environmental Religion

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1176231980159160322 We've talked many times about how the child Greta Thunberg from the depths of Europe is ignorant of all atmospheric physics. Ignorant, as in she knows nothing. She couldn't…

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Remember To Remember In November — Guest Post by Ianto Watt

Remember when I said 'I smell victory'? Others smelled it too. And they didn't like that aroma. So, to prevent the serving of that just dessert, they had to turn…

Phil R on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
...and I saw 5 or 25 in the figure. The division answer never occurred to me. Got all the rest…
Phil R on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
If someone asks a question that is conditional on some evidence or rule that they conveniently (or purposely) leave out,…
McChuck on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
The answer for the pictured question is obviously '1', as the slot already has a '1' in it, which has…
Briggs on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
Mark, That's exactly it.
Mark on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
Wittgenstein gave some examples like this in his Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics, a book I had no business…