Here’s a clip of Colbert making fun of Bill O’Reilly’s jaw-dropping claim that we don’t know what causes the tides. Followed by his sad attempt to redeem himself. The clip is dripping with religious debate but I would think the more pressing issue would be how does someone who influences the opinions of millions not [...]
Click here to go to Barbara Frum’s 1992 interview with Mordecai Richler. After the interview she was rushed to the hospital and died a two weeks later of leaukemia. The link didn’t work in Firefox for me, I had to try watch it in Safari.
Christopher Hitchens making the astute point that he has stage IV cancer and there is no stage V.
My apologies for not posting much this week but someone close to me has come to the end of a long and beautiful life. In tribute I’m posting a couple videos of people who are and have faced death more bravely than I ever could. Here is Carl Sagan’s last interview before he died nearly [...]
The graph below looks bland but there’s some weird stuff going on. The further to the right you go on this graph, the richer you are compared to the people in your own country (either USA, China, Brazil or India) and the further up you go, the richer you are compared to the people of [...]
This is so well said.
Just a quick question today. A while back I posted the results of survey about what 5,000 Americans think about how wealth should be distributed. Surprisingly, Americans seem to favour a pretty equitable distribution of wealth, much more equitable than the actual distribution of wealth. But there’s still some imbalance, you still have the rich [...]
Exo-planetary scientists need you! Because you’re smarter than a computer! Isn’t it nice to feel needed and smart? Here’s the thing. Exo-planetary scientists, scientists that study planets outside our solar system, are sitting on tons of data about the brightness of stars in our galaxy. If a star has a planet big enough going around [...]
