

DANG: MORE FAILURES TO REPLICATE or CONFIRMATION OF OUR LOVE OF FICTION
One famous finding from social psychology is that intergroup contact is the most highly effective tool for reducing prejudice. The more...
Jan 203 min read

NO BRAINER: HOW APHANTASIA IS LIKE ATHEISM
Maybe twenty years ago I was writing about the strangeness of finding myself labelled an ‘atheist’. To begin with, I argued that...
Jan 1210 min read


NEW IN PERU
A team of researchers from Conservation International conducted a survey in the heart of Peru during the summer of 2022. Their rapid...
Dec 23, 20245 min read


HOW THINGS WERE
So many such odd things these days. So many such things and so very odd that it’s hard to differentiate what is normal and what is...
Dec 23, 20242 min read


NOTHING TO SEE
I was perfectly happy to disregard the “drone” reports as media-induced mass panic. And then government officials began assuring the...
Dec 19, 20243 min read


THE OTHER REPLICATION CRISIS
A paper was just quietly published showing several independent large language models, all the latest versions of the big ones from all...
Dec 12, 20241 min read


GREASE FIRES AND PEEPHOLES
CANDISS: But you could be setting fire to things while adding fuel. BARTHALAHMEU: What do you mean? C: Well, you have no information....
Dec 9, 20242 min read


THE BRUNT
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) just published "Women and girls bear the brunt of conflicts..." In the thread...
Dec 2, 202413 min read


ON FISH, BIG AND LITTLE or WHO WILL ROLL THIS MASSIVE STONE?
NOAH: Someone was telling me how the Gospel of Mark, according to Mark, St. Mark the Evangelist, was originally transmitted by itinerant...
Dec 1, 20249 min read


BUYING AN ELECTION
I don’t even know how you would explain to future generations what has taken place over the last decade. So much context is needed just...
Nov 14, 20248 min read


NEW SHOES
Late one night my wife returned home
And my wife, she was without her shoes
And so I asked my wife
“Wife, where are your shoes?”
Nov 11, 20242 min read


SO WHAT IS THIS ABOUT, EXACTLY?
So what is this fluoride panic about? It’s certainly not about the existing evidence.
Nov 6, 20249 min read


SALMON RUN
The Quinsam River, just outside Campbell River on Vancouver Island, has just seen the highest pink salmon return in a decade . And this...
Nov 3, 20241 min read


DETERRENCE THEORY THEORY or RS-28 SARMAT WITH LOVE
EVERY EXPERT: Putin just has nothing to gain from launching a war with Ukraine. He would never do it. ME: I don’t know about that. ALL...
Oct 21, 20241 min read


IT'S UP TO YOU
I’ve been writing for some time about the sudden and curious rejection of our age-old understanding that humans cause much, and in many...
Oct 19, 20243 min read

THE MOST RELIABLE OF ALL
March 2014: Mme Dienne LaCarétt, mother of post-neo-colonial orthonarcotics, looked up and down, high and low, walking the length of the...
Oct 16, 20244 min read


NOT SO FAST
According to the IUCN Red List , more than 45,000 species on Earth are currently threatened with extinction. Particularly threatened are...
Oct 16, 20243 min read


"FACTUAL FINDINGS"
I was told to go read something said to be a newly published and “damning UN report about Israeli war crimes and ‘extermination’ via its...
Oct 11, 202413 min read