Wednesday, July 30, 2025

The Importance of Relativity

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Quoted on p. 447 of Losing : Life expectancy is up, from a world average of less than 30 years in the mid-18th century to over 70 years toda...
Monday, July 28, 2025

The Explicit EA Preference for Torture

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Been hot here, but here is October near Flagstaff. In my latest on why I'm not an "Effective Altruist," I wrote: “Effective A...
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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Fall-out-of-your-chair funny (but warning warning warning)

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Warning: Has to do with politics.  Also: Incredibly gross. Feel free to skip!  First, a picture of a roadrunner in a tree; click for larger:...
Friday, July 25, 2025

At least there are trees

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The Grand Canyon, North Rim (see below, too)  To start your weekend: John Green: At least there are trees (5 minute video) (Trees literally...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

We have found the magic drug. (And another that isn't quite as good but is easier to swallow.)

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Derek Thompson : The results were spectacular. [Magic drug] transformed just about every tissue and molecular system that Ashley and his co-...
Monday, July 21, 2025

An Open Letter to Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee

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Hey You Two, I can't begin to say how great Stephen is; I'm sure, in the face of CBS's greedy, cowardly decision  ( more/worse )...
Friday, July 18, 2025

"He rode a Beagle to the Galapagos Islands" - Friday Funny

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"You have watched Cunk, right?  We can't be friends otherwise." If you get the joke ("rode a Beagle"), you will love...
Monday, July 14, 2025

I Am To Blame (not a happy post but still...)

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tl;dr - if we want to make things actually better, we need to be honest with ourselves and others. "The first principle is that you mus...
Friday, July 11, 2025

I don't know why I blog at all. Seriously.

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I spent hundreds of words trying to say what Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal said in one comic a few weeks later:  
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Let's lift each other up while we can

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2 Graphs & Facts: " We're all gonna die! " Click for larger;  Source [I]n 1965 [during Anne's lifetime], the most comm...
Monday, July 7, 2025

The End of Lead

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Guess where I am on that graph?   More Good News you never hear about: The End of Lead . The payoff of more practical, pragmatic policy. Fro...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

My Tombstone. Funny 'Cuz It's True

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True ! Except for THIS . TY to Eleni.  
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Carbon-Based Cruelty

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This is the first blog I wrote initially for Substack  (so far). (Everything else I post there is from this blog.) Luckily, the loons didn...