Monthly Archives: November 2013

This article in The Atlantic points to research on people who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago (and are found to be accurate a high percentage of the time when tested)  but it turns … Continue reading →

According to this report  in Vice-Canada, David Suzuki has claimed that “If, in fact, the fourth plant goes under an earthquake, and those rods are exposed, it’s bye-bye Japan, and everybody on the west coast of North America should evacuate. … Continue reading →

In the course of checking whether Ramez Naam’s GDP figures (in Decoupling Growth From Energy and Carbon) were inflation adjusted, I came across nice looking site about visualizing economics. The graph there matches Naam’s and is clearly identified as illustrating an … Continue reading →

David Brin cheers on The Coming Transparent World while Jaron Lanier is decidedly less enthusiastic. Lanier’s solution is to implement ownership of personal data with the right to deny access and charge whatever price we want for such access.  Of course, although … Continue reading →

Ophelia Benson picks up on an interesting minor point in an essay by Conor Friedesrorf where he attributes some of the goodness of his friend to the influence of religion: “Nick happens to be one of the best people I know. Even … Continue reading →

The “Dear Muslimo” scorn being heaped on Richard Dawkins over his lost honey would be undeserved were it not for his own earlier mockery of Rebecca Watson’s mild complaint on behalf of women who feel uncomfortable as a result of unwanted attention at … Continue reading →