Monthly Archives: February 2026

Elon Musk’s incredibly stupid claim that “Those without children lack a stake in the future” overlooks the fact that, even on a purely biological level, evolution favours an organism that cares, at least to some extent, for relatives that are … Continue reading →

Should we be concerned that (according to Gloria Mark, Chancellor’s Professor of Informatics at the University of California Irvine) in 2004 people averaged two and a half minutes on any screen before switching tasks, but by 2016 that had fallen to 47 seconds? So far … Continue reading →

Small modular nuclear fission reactors seem well suited to serve isolated communities in Canada’s far North that are hard to service by grid connection to larger generating stations (and which are now dependent on expensive polluting diesel fuel whose delivery … Continue reading →

A fish becoming (or even giving birth to) an elephant would be evidence against evolution not to prove it. Evolution is based on the idea (and observed fact) that organisms (even ones that undergo metamorphosis like butterflies and frogs) never … Continue reading →