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Category Archives: Science
The Dark Side of Astronomy: Would Be Namers
We’ve all heard the story, pay a small price and you can name a star that will be filed by a company. The only problem with this is that professional astronomers do not accept these files. Paying a few bucks … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Music, Science
Tagged 88 official constellations, asterism, Big Dipper, Bonnie Malkin, Centaurus, constellation, David Bowie, haven't revealed the name of the constellation yet, Libra, lightning bolt, name a star scams, observatory knew exactly when Bowie died, Octans, reporter can't transcribe names of stars from a star map, Spica, stars are suns, Triangulum Australe, vicinity of Mars, Virgo
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Never Trust Anyone Under 30
Do you remember that old refrain, “Never trust anyone over 30”. Maybe you don’t but I’ll bet all baby boomers and some gen Xers (like me) certainly do. This is the credo that brought drug culture to a very large … Continue reading
Making ‘Black MIDI’ White
Black MIDI is music, impossible to be played by human hands, on say a piano, because it is so note dense. Indeed the fact that it is so note dense means if these songs were written with normal music notation … Continue reading
Marrying Smart Machines
Right away, I must tell you, this post is not about sexbots or any other possible way to have sex with electronics. I am only discussing a stratagem for dealing with the modern world. You know that line that everyone … Continue reading
Future Shock or Enraging Bears
Future shock has long been the stuff of science fiction. I will not annoy you with ridiculous, cause-and-effect-ignoring time travel into the past. In this article we will only examine ignorant time travel where somehow the observer manages to ignore … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged bears, corpsicles, cryogenics, cultural change, displacement shock, future shock, hibernation, ignorant time travel, making salmon hard to get for bears, maze, Moore's Law, more bears in territory, political change, refinement, sleep, sociological change, suspended animation, totally new concepts
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Money For Nothing
Just about now, those who have invested in sea shore real estate in the U.S. might be thinking of the alternatives. Especially if global warming actually creates higher sea levels. The way I see it, there are two choices. The … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged Copenhagen, Copenhagen to be carbon neutral by 2025, Denmark, glacier, glacier melt, global warming, Greenland, lake shore, Michigan, money for nothing, real estate, Saginaw, sea level rise, sea shore values in the US, the great lakes, United States
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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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Painting the International Space Station
I think Canada should offer to paint the International Space Station or ISS. But just any colour won’t do. I suggest we paint it the colour most unifying to all humans. The colour red should be used because we all … Continue reading
Father’s Day – the Longest Day of the Year*
This year, Father’s Day is actually the longest day of the year. But that’s not exactly what I meant. Perhaps if “Father’s Day” is said with an eye roll, then some people might get the title. And if “- The … Continue reading