Kudos to Joe Rudy and Chris Russo who pulled off the whole thing! http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-04-01.html#feature As someone who cringes at the pseudoscience pedalled by hucksters and believed by the average person (who’s proud to be scientifically illiterate), it’s good to see such exposés as often as possible. The UFO was five 3-ft balloons with flares attached [...]
From Solar Roadways: I especially like the cost calculations (The Numbers) and the list of benefits (Benefits). Of course, my lingering question about ANY large-area solar implementation is do we know what will happen when the sun’s energy is collected for electricity INSTEAD of letting it heat the ground, i.e., will the climate cool slightly [...]
Tweets from jury deliberation room give losing side some straws to grasp at: http://is.gd/nwD5 Courts will have to crack down on that I think, but such tweets don’t really show bias at all. Here’s a great use of Twitter in the court room: http://is.gd/mEbL A good reporter can make you feel as if you’re right [...]
Thank you, Milan, who wrote a great WordPress plugin which easily converts a text string to a tiny image (which helps prevent spam-bots from scraping email addresses and phone numbers and from auto-logging into sites to create spam comments for seo). I use it on my Contact page. And I did that by typing 5 [...]