Tag: Carver
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Amazing!
Lately I’ve noticed that New Scientist has departed from its normal purely political stance, spending much less time on fashionable shit like Climate and Die-Versity. In this article they take a HUGE step in the right direction. For the first time in print, a big science magazine admits that science has ALWAYS depended on the…
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Not a good idea
Some commentators are taking the Carney victory as a time to start agitating for independence for the prairie provinces. Bad idea. When you’re the mouse fighting a hostile psychopathic cat, you need all the force you can muster. Workers vs corporations are the easiest example. One worker at a time has no chance of gaining…
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Big Science vs Big History
An observation about two disciplines. The big science magazines have been lost in politics for a LONG time, not just the Trump era. SciAm was already lost in the 70s. NewScientist dropped into politics around 2000. Nature has also been there for a while, though I don’t read it regularly enough to spot the change.…
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More OCD witchcraft
Ran across an especially egregious example of modern OCD witch hunts, blaming trace elements and trace waves for huge illnesses. I understand the temptation only too well. I’m a natural hypochondriac, ready to blame any available outside influence for my “symptoms”. Long experience has taught me that 98% of my problems are either seasonal inflammation…
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When you’re the mouse (2021 reprint)
Linked in previous item on Columbia University vs ElonTrump. This overlong piece was written in 2021 at the height of Trump’s PREVIOUS monstrosity. One thing has changed for the better. At that time the Weather Bureau was still doing the wrong thing, hammering Gaia and losing the trust of the people. Since then they’ve figured…
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Stuck on stupid
Now that Canada amazingly started doing the RIGHT THING in response to ElonTrump’s monstrosity, the total failure of all US parties and institutions is more salient. Canada is following the Booker T philosophy. When you’re the mouse, you have to use your own mousy talents to survive. You can’t beg the cat for permission, and…
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Nope, still wrong
Seen in a meme: Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. No. Not even close. Science has nothing to do with truth or knowledge. Science solves problems. Every plant and animal solves problems all the time. Science is a carefully organized, measured and recorded way of solving problems. Organized and measured so…
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Ford for thought
PR Newswire cites the Edelman Trust Barometer: = = = = = START PR: Innovation is accelerating and should be a growth enabler, but it will be stymied if business doesn’t pay as much attention to acceptance as it does research and development. More than two-thirds of our respondents who say innovation is poorly managed…
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Materials and Methods
Following on previous item that mentioned the primacy of MATERIALS and METHODS. I’ve hammered this subject repeatedly. Here’s one of the better hammers from 2014. = = = = = START 2014 REPRINT: Reading another stupid “study” on improving nutrition, it struck me that Portion and Serving are extremely peculiar units. They are new instances…
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Stop, goddamnit.
A long time ago I got tired of people saying We must hold ____ accountable! If you were honest you’d admit that we have NO WAY of holding accountable. No matter how many activists we organize, NOBODY will ever be held accountable. You’re not the Accounts Receivable department. Elon is Accounts Receivable. Larry Fink is…
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Math teacher’s joke
Seen on Quora. A math teacher met one of his former students in a parking lot. The student parked his Lamborghini next to the teacher’s old Chevy. The surprised teacher said to him: “How can you own a car like that? You were a lousy student.” The ex-student replied: “You see this office building? I…
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Work, not logic
Perfect example of the standard “conservative” and Catholic stupidity about education. “Kids should be taught basic epistemology and logic in primary school before they get access to the Internet”. Precisely wrong. Tyrants LOVE logic and philosophy. The JOB of philosophy is to help tyrants lie and kill. Logic happily defends all sorts of destructive shit.…
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Instead of messaging…
Continuing from previous item on persuasion. I’m talking to the Democrat party now. You don’t need to persuade or message better. You don’t need to find a Blair or Clinton “third way”. The “third way” is exactly why you’re losing now. You only need to COPY your own best president. COPY the only president who…
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Ford and Carver!
Two of my favorite people worked together. I’ve read about Ford’s attempt to make car bodies out of soybean-derived plastic. I’ve seen pictures of Henry demonstrating the strength of a plastic trunk lid on an otherwise normal ’40 Ford. I’ve never seen this unique modernistic car before! Ford commissioned Carver to develop the chemical process…
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Black IOOF history
This is even more interesting than the white IOOF. Black lodges started in NYC in 1843, twenty years after the white lodges. From the Official History of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, published 1893. I’m including an unusually long quote because it’s powerful and important history. = = = = = START QUOTE:…
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