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Happy Festivus- Here I Air My Anti-Science Grievances

December 23rd is 'Festivus', a not-real holiday invented by the father of George Costanza on the hit television show "Seinfeld", involving an aluminum pole, feats of strength, and, most fun, an airing of grievances.(1) It's the air ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 20 2023 - 10:35am

Guardian Scolds Wall Street Journal For Climate Junk By Writing Its Own

The Wall Street Journal posted a letter from 16 scientists who are critical of climate science in general and anthropogenic warming in specific. There were numerous flaws in the letter (see Robert Cooper's Denialiasm 101 piece An Excellent Study On De ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 2 2024 - 12:34pm

If Science 2.0 Doesn't Work Out, I Will Sell Organic Food For Dogs

It's always good to have a back-up plan and I may have found mine if Science 2.0 doesn't get bought by some rich media conglomerate in Germany; people gullible enough to believe their organic food is structurally or nutritionally superior and are ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2024 - 10:53am

Weekend Science- The 5 Best Dogs For Attracting Women

There is one thing men know about women; they are willing to believe anything about you if you just put forth the effort to fool them a little. A tuxedo in the eyes of a woman, for example, adds $10,000 to your income and knocks 10 lbs. off your weight. No ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2024 - 11:05am

Weekend Science: The Physics Of Smoking A Pipe

If you're one of those cultural mullahs who thinks smoking causes lung cancer- even a cigar or a pipe- you can stop reading.  This article is not for you.   I have never smoked a cigarette in my life but gradual efforts by the modern temperance moveme ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2024 - 12:35pm

How To Be Emotionally Stable Without Getting Bored- The Musical!

Max Lugavere, founding producer and host for Current TV, the Emmy winning cable network started by Al Gore, started a column on Psychology Today and came up with this gem. (1) He writes that  he saw a piece by Nick Cox,  a writer living in Cambridge, MA, c ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2024 - 9:30am

Francis: Pope, Chemist

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been chosen as Pope Francis, leader of the Holy See in Rome. That's all well and good, it's nice that heavily-Catholic South America is getting its due and I found it interesting that a Jesuit chose to name hims ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 15 2024 - 6:10am

Interna

Summer is coming, and with it some more intense than usual travel for me. I actually started last month, when my path touched Rome, Athens, La Londe Les Maures (a small town on the south French riviera), and Athens again. Since being away from home means a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 21 2024 - 10:29am

Sexiest Vegan: PETA Objectifies Women Again

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is continuing its long-standing policy of defending dead animals by exploiting live human women. Well, clearly it works, since I am giving them free publicity by hammering on their lack of ethics in my ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2024 - 8:08am

On Black Swan Probability and Tail Obesity

For a long while now, having watched bubbles form and pop, I have found it frustrating how people pile into assets with straight line trajectories.  I first noticed it in the time of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.  During that time, as I recall, re ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 1:31pm