Tag: Entertainment
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More BIG
Wesley Smith hits hard on two BIG corrections in BIG medical topics. Two longstanding orthodoxies have been PROVED wrong. 1. Depression is caused by biochemistry. Wrong but probably not fraudulent. 2. Alzheimers is caused by plaque. Wrong and deliberate fraud. THIS IS BIG. I already know 1 is wrong, because I’ve figured out non-chemical ways…
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Shkreli has a GOOD idea.
Shkreli has finished his 5 years in prison, and DailyMail has an informative interview. Is he reformed? Hell no. I understand the Shkreli type, and I understand prison, and I predicted correctly that he would be an outstanding mentor to other Bad dudes. From the DailyMail: At the top of his post-prison to-do list is…
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The opposite of self-liquidating
Lately I’ve been somewhat fascinated by the use of interactive quizzes and ‘self-liquidating premiums’ in radio and other advertising. Smart marketers were able to gain permanent conversion to a product by offering small tokens or premiums, which were fully paid by the customer. NFTs are so horrible that they can’t serve as a self-liquidating premium!…
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Entertainment spawns entertainment
From Gerard and Castor’s record of bitcoin idiocy: But Zhu and Davies have been telling the public — especially their creditors — how they lost money too, how they fear for their lives, and how they are so overwhelmed that they can’t turn over banking information just yet, but they’ll get to that soon, for…
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Getting into the act
I’ve been reading Ruth Moore’s wonderful book about fossils and fossil-gatherers. Today the weather decided to participate in my reading. Weathermen like to talk about historic storms… here’s a prehistoric storm. Despite the scary appearance, it didn’t DO much. No actual rain or lightning, just a nice cool breeze.
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Legacies
EnidBuzz posted a ‘memory’ picture of two ladies dressed up in silly style, riding banana bikes to work. Both worked at Sears, and they were doing the annual Crazy Day in 1968. Commenters had positive memories of the ladies and Sears. This one wins: I worked at Sears back in 1976 and knew Lucille, she…
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Just before the terror
Looking into the Clavecin Oculaire led to a broader view of French science just before the terrorist revolution turned “science” into the horrible unstoppable god of torture and war. The clavecin was a PLAYFUL USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE. The musicians and scientists who tried it out were HAVING FUN. Several other scientists and writers…
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Sharing is meaningless
At least Evolution News isn’t playing the fake surprise game. They acknowledge that the habits of academia are permanent. Scientific progress is being impeded by a culture in which scientists jealously guard their research instead of sharing it. Keas says the problem seems to have gotten worse in recent years but isn’t a new one.…
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Clavecin oculaire
I haven’t been “inspired” to do a tech history piece for a while. This instrument came in through one of those offerings from Academia.edu. I’m surprised that I’d never encountered it before; it stands at the intersection of everything I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. Louis Bertrand Castel invented the color harpsichord or…
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Renewing the pledge
Polistra and friends stand in solidarity with SCIENCE AS ENTERTAINMENT, attempting to form a counterbalance to the endlessly renewed tyranny of SCIENCE AS DEMONIC TORTURE AND HOLOCAUST. Science as entertainment was first presented here.
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Neighborhood puzzle
A week ago I heard an odd noise around 5AM. Sounded sort of like a skateboard but not quite. I peeked out the window. It was a young man pulling an office chair down the street. I could see a piece of paper on the chair. AHA! I’ve done the same thing a few times.…
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TODAY IS CAPS LOCK DAY!
CAPS LOCK DAY! OH BOY! MY FAVORITE! APPARENTLY CAPS LOCK DAY WAS INTENDED TO HONOR BILLY MAYS, THE KING OF INFOMERCIALS, WHO ALWAYS TALKED IN THE AUDIO EQUIVALENT OF CAPS LOCK. 6/28 IS ALSO TAU DAY, FOR A MORE OBVIOUS REASON. TAU IS A WORTHY REFORM THAT STANDS NO CHANCE OF ADOPTION. ALL PRACTICAL USES…
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Numbers all the way dooooooooooooown
Musical accompaniment. Time for a sip of Chateau Schadenfreude, now that the Holy Bitcoin has dropped off the scale at $20k. This number is not just a ‘chartist’ threshold. Some crucial loans and margin calls were designed to be triggered at this number. When your fake “economy” is built on Magic Numbers All The Way…
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Not a plan, just an intention
Kirn’s latest pithy point: Simulating all aspects of the Creation so that they can be monetized — and destroying those that can’t — is pretty much the whole of the evil plan. True, but it’s not a very effective plan. A vast pile of money and effort and influence is going into the Metaverse. Zuck…
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Already done
UncommonDescent reviews some new CGI of dinosaurs. It’s impressive visually, but the audio is stuck in the Godzilla era. The dinos emit hoarse roars. Birds are little dinos. So the ancient huge birds would have the same type of vocal mechanism with a VASTLY longer resonant cavity. They would sing complex songs in the same…
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