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Category Archives: Science
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
Things I Would Have Loved to Know About Physics Before Making It My Major
What with the current glamourizing of physics with Cosmos and The Big Bang Theory (although some might say that sitcom deglamourizes physics), more and more people are probably looking into physics as a career choice. Decades ago I started down … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science
Tagged biology, career path, Cosmos, friendly neighbourhood physicist, guidance counselor, in physics career path the last chance for electives is grade 11, little free time in physics career path, physics, physics majors cross picket lines or they fail, potential physicists must learn to ask questions, The Big Bang Theory, university rep
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Stealing From the Rich to Give to the Future
I came across this article about what is purported to be Britain’s oldest living tree. The tree is about 4 000 years old. I was going to read the article and then probably forget it. But I noted that it … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Wry
Tagged 4 000 year old tree, Britain, Britain's oldest tree, commoners had few rights in royal forests, merry men, Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, pruning can help plants live better, Robin Hood, Robin Hood could have crafted a bow from this very tree, royal forests, Sherwood Forest, some hardscrabble trees are long lived, Somerset, stealing from the rich, yew tree, yew trees can make good bows
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Those Mysterious Flashes on Ceres
Deep in the asteroid belt sits the globular asteroid Ceres. Nasa’s Dawn probe has been investigating this asteroid from only thousands of kilometers away. The most intriguing part of the observing has been two flashes from different parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Writing
Tagged asteroid belt, Ceres, Dawn space probe, Frank and Joe Hardy, Hardy Boys, Morse code, mysterious flashes, NASA, NASA already plans a manned trip to an asteroid, private enterprise in space, reflect sun with mirrors, SOS, the boys will become Hardy men
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Third Eye
It’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve been privy to the info that the red dot some Hindus wear on their foreheads is supposed to represent a third eye. It’s not that I’ve never thought about the … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged depth perception, Hindu, Hindus might see each other spiritually if they were back to back, optimal third eye position, predator knows where to strike, primate knows where to jump to, red dot on forehead, stereoscopic vision, third eye, third eye might have spiritual sight, try sneaking up on a herbivore, two eyes position for a predator, two eyes position for a primate, two eyes position for herbivore, wrap around vision
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