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Repeat of Face on Mars hysteria again?

Posted on March 6, 2015 by

    Normally I use my other blog for talking about less common words, but in the post I can explore the term pareidolia ⇑ (in short, seeing faces in rocks) which is a more specific instant of the term apophenia ⇑ … Continue reading →

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I believe in fortuity

Posted on May 30, 2014 by

I’ve pondered about what word/concept I’d like to use for the circumstances that sometimes things happen that you don’t expect or predict but that happen to be just what you want or need at that moment. This has happened to … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Friday-4

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

Climate change deniers fooled a pop science site: I was fairly amazed to see this and, if true, it would be significant. But since I started from POV of skeptic it didn’t take long to find out that the “NASA” … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Tuesday-4

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

(Skip to the bottom for possibly the more interesting and definitely more personal part of this post) Trees help with global warming, but not how you think. We’d expect trees to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it in … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Thursday-6

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

Note: Most of these comments were written before I started reading Michael Pollan so I guess I can claim them as my ideas. Converting cellulose: If this discovery holds up (not another cold fusion) this could be huge. Converting cellulose … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Monday-6

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

New study on vaccines is unlikely to convince the leftwingnuts since they, like rightwingnuts, live in fact-free bubbles. The whole vaccine thing is ridiculous, utterly no scientific proof yet seemingly reasonable people (like RFK Jr) holding absurd points of view. … Continue reading →

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QuickReaction, Thursday-5

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Unusual headline choice: In a Catholic publication the headline screams “Doubters of Darwin, here’s your evidence.” Now how should we parse this? That the article contains evidence justifying doubts (and numerous creationist lying article claim) or that it contains evidence … Continue reading →

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