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Category Archives: Wry
Welcome, Canadians, to Our ‘Choice’
For those who don’t know, Canada has five parties that get seats: the Liberals, the Conservatives, the NDP, the Greens and the Bloc (which is only in Quebec and can’t win. I am going to ignore them for the rest … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Wry
Tagged 4 parties that can win, Americans are laughing at our lack of choice, Bloc, Canada, Conservatives, five parties that get seats, Greens, Justin Trudeau's Liberals copy the Conservatives, let's not vote for liberal/conservatives, Liberals, NDP, of late the NDP copies the Greens, only one choice, only two parties have ever won
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It’s Official – Electric, Hydrogen or Both Types of Car Will Be Viable in 5 to 10 Years
By viable, I mean that new technology cars will be able to compete with our present vehicles in every way. I am confident that charging ports and hydrogen stations will be brought into regular service in many places. And why … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Wee Bit O' Humour, Wry
Tagged batteries in electrics last only 5 to 10 years, capitalism thrives on waste, electric cars, good cars will be scrapped in the name of environmentalism, hydrogen cars, rocket fuel is hydrogen, saving the environment by going through more cars, today's cars last 10 to 15 years, viable technologies in 5 to 10 years, who wants to drive around an old hydrogen car?
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Watch Those Ultimate Words
The Globe and Mail likes to think of itself as the intellectual national newspaper of Canada. I could get on board with that. Too bad it’s simply not true. Here is an article where I am quite sure their science … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Science, Wry
Tagged Canada, Canadian-led astronomy, David Dunlap Obsersvatory, dwarf planet, ever, galaxies, Ivan Semeniuk, penultimate words, Pluto, Richmond Hill, second largest telescope in the thirties, stars, supernovae in other galaxies, The Globe and Mail, Toronto
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Forcing Justin Trudeau to Keep Power
Justin Trudeau is such a newbie to politics that he is trying his best to give his power away. His government has already signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (the TPP). How does this give his power away? Why it makes … Continue reading
Heat Wave Snobbery
I’ve been shocked to hear The Weather Network in Canada repeating the same dogma over the last few years. That is that a heat wave is defined to be at least 3 days in a row of temperatures above 32 … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Science, Wry
Tagged 3 days of temperatures above 32 degrees Celsius, America, Arizona has dry heat, Canada, global warming, Great Lakes area has humid heat, heat wave definition, temperature differential, The Weather Network in Canada, Yellowknife should have lax heat wave standards
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IQ BS
My last post mentioned IQ and I believe my inherent distrust of the subject peeked through. It’s an emotional subject not the least because some feel it attempts to measure the worth of a person. I view IQ tests as … Continue reading
Posted in Pseudo Science, Science, Wry
Tagged Albert Einstein, don't believe the IQ scores of historical figures, Einstein is supposed to have an IQ score of 160, historical figures never took IQ tests, historical IQs are lies, historical IQs are where psychologists biases live, Intelligence Quotient, IQ, IQ tests have only been proven to sometimes correlate to school performance, Newton was supposed to have an IQ score of 190, Scorpion, Sir Isaac Newton, the many people who get more than 160 on IQ tests underperform compared with Einstein
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CEOs and IQ Tests
I do think CEOs can be worth more than one employee. But taking a more scientific tack I suggest we check out the sometimes maligned studies of intelligence in psychology. An IQ is an Intelligence Quotient. It is the Mental … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Science, Wry
Tagged average IQ is 100, cap CEOs wages at 4 times minimum wage and lets hear the screams, CEO, CEOs work ethics are usually exemplary because they might work 60 hour weeks, extremely high IQ is 200, extremely low IQ is 50, Intelligence Quotient, IQ, it's not hard work that makes success, many CEOs make 1000 times the wage of their lowest paid employee, psychology, psychology is a soft science, psychology played intelligence differences with wisdom, smartest person is only 4 times as smart as the slowest, some CEOs whine every time a minimum wage increase might be coming, some minimum wage earners have to work 80 hours a week just to get by
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The Case for Fat Chords
A chord is comprised of at least 3 notes. Octaves of these notes don’t count as separate notes. So the maximum number of notes a chord can have is twelve. This is all the spacings in the octave. Since we … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wry
Tagged a chord is three notes or more, a power chord is not a chord, chord, fat chord, fat chords are sometimes called jazz chords, Led Zeppelin, major and minor chords have only three different notes, most bands in totality play fat chords all the time, octaves and chords, punk rock, scale, Yes
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