This week, there are two sets of haunting images on the web that should be instructive for a lot of people. The first set are images from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the aftermath of Russian forces being driven out. Corpses, evidence of torture, execution, and rape of civilians. At the beginning of the […]
Why We Will Eat Meat – How the Bill Gates Crowd Gets It So Wrong About Population and the Future of Food
Relatively few people are aware that Bill Gates has made predictions (or threats) about how we’ll feed ourselves in the years to come. He says humans must abandon meat for the good of the planet and we’re doomed if we don’t. Instead, we must eat a meat substitute made in a factory or we must […]
Parsing Out the Ukraine War and the Unique Predicament Now Faced by Russia
Most of us are dependent on news cycles to understand what’s happening in places like Ukraine. At about six weeks into the war there, one that presented us with the prospect of WWIII, that war has mostly disappeared from our newsfeed except from tertiary coverage. Is it that much less important? Given that Ukraine is […]
Statistics and Motivation – Where Does All the Gay Come From?
Even when I was a teen, along with fiction and stuff normal for a teen, I read technical material. One of the things I read were excerpted versions of the full length Masters and Johnson Study on sexuality and later, other follow up studies. Reading these materials, to be quite honest, was a mashup of […]
Smith vs. Rock – Fight Night in Hollywood
The smack heard around the world; Will Smith giving a big open smack to Chris Rock is hardly news, in fact, I believe it was staged by the two professional actors. Here are the real story lines that came out of the event: Oscar’s night has another incredibly dismal showing. The smack down is an […]