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The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm
- Title Mining is Strong in Imagine Dragons
- In Search of Justin Trudeau’s Middle Class
- The 6 Basic Characters and the 5 Basic Settings
- SETI: Dumb Isn’t Dumb
- The Thousand Year Connoisseur
- Why Do Extreme Right Wing Authors Glorify the Left?
- Be Careful Little Mars
- Shhhhh, Prince Harry
- Dysing Dystopias II
- Dysing Dystopias I
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Category Archives: Pseudo Science
The Thousand Year Connoisseur
There is no doubt that becoming an expert takes a lot of time and effort. To become a connoisseur is almost like becoming an expert’s expert. There is a lot of knowledge involved – look no further than the wine … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged connoisseur, expert, human blood, maybe the sophisticated vampire can tell all that scientific tests say about our blood, maybe vampires can do tests that don't involve fasting, scientific analysis, thousand years to hone skills, vampire might be faster, vampires, win/win, wine taster can tell you things about the cask
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Creep Creep
Can we all just agree that marketers are overwhelmingly creeps? It seems the lot are driven to exaggerations and hyperbole in the effort to sell us anything at all. Today I’d like to talk about the exaggerations in “technical” fields. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Pseudo Science, Science
Tagged artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence is still far in the future, Back to the Future, exaggerations, hoverboard, hoverboards don't hover, I'm offended as a science fiction author, marketers, maybe we should sue, remote control battles, remote control wars, robot battles, robot wars
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Assigning IQs to Freud and Jung
Psychology has taken to assigning IQs to people who have never taken IQ tests. Einstein only garners an IQ of 160, thus we have to put up with an article every week that declares a kid “smarter than Einstein”. Who … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science, Social Science
Tagged according to me Freud's IQ is about 33, according to me Jung has an IQ of 14, Carl Jung, Einstein has been said to only have an IQ of 160, Einstein never took an IQ test, Freud obsessed with sex, Freud's greatest work may be The Interpretation of Dreams, Intelligence Quotient, IQ, IQ is mental age over real age times 100, Jung was best known for his archetypes, psychology, Sigmund Freud
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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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Maybe You Can Take It With You
‘You can take it with you’ is what the ancient Egyptians were told. This led to huge tombs for the rich, where not only did they mummify your remains, but they also gave you a large stock of what you … Continue reading
Homeopathy and the High Price of Chemicals
Homeopathy is the discipline (hah!) that states that a properly diluted chemical can still have an effect on your immune system. The dilutions are so extreme, that there is either a vanishingly small amount of the original, active ingredient or … Continue reading
Mmmm Zombies
Zombies have us terrified with their brain eating ways. But we are humans. We always turn the tables on the predator no matter how fearsome they might be. Since zombies are much like us, I think that we must turn … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science Fiction
Tagged better efficiency for long space trip, brain eating, defecate remains, flame thrower, flame throwers to disable and cook, food recycling, how zombies colonized space, incantations, six feet under ground, water recycling, zombie meat is the greenest of all foods, zombies
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Walking on Water: Too Easy
Walking on water is one of the premiere miracles in the bible. But summing up the miracle by using that stock phrase makes it just too easy for anyone to meet or exceed that deed. If you have dared to … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music, Pseudo Science, Science, Stage and Screen
Tagged airplane, caution wet floor, floating on air, George Lucas, indoor skydiving, Katy Perry, reentry, skipping humans across water, skipping stones, snow and ice are water too, spacecraft, the bible, two ways to skip on air, walking on air, walking on water
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The Gift We Can Give Our Children
There is a very common theme in spiritual/self-help/improved-lifestyle paradigms. I think it can be best summed up by the following wise saying. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” Gurus … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Writing
Tagged Dreaming, experience is listeneing to the past, future and past as inconsequential, gurus, home school, learned words, living in the present, lottery tickets, present worshippers, scatting without rhythm or song, school, school prepares one for future, self help, toilet training
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Bible Literalist Opens Door Wide to Many Evolutions
I don’t know why but a few weeks ago I flicked on a bible literalist show and saw a man rationalizing Noah’s Ark as presented in the bible. Perhaps burned many times by the assertions of others that millions of … Continue reading