“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
I am assuredly WAY behind the times on this one, but all I can say is that I have been extremely busy for weeks now, so my appetite for tabloid trash has been rather in abeyance of late. However, for those of you who have been paying attention to such things, you may...
The Didactic Mind podcast is back, finally, with a long discussion about the rather disastrous state of modern economics. Specifically, I start by defining what money IS, and how different forms of money have evolved over time. I point out that money is absolutely...
I am honoured to present another great guest post by our good friend, The Male Brain, who has very kindly taken it upon himself to translate from the original Hebrew an article about why universities and schools permit students to cheat. Indeed, they actually NEED...
As you have no doubt heard by now, Prime Minister Chucky, aka Liz Truss, is no longer in charge of PommieBastardLande. She resigned earlier today, to the surprise of just about nobody, after spending just six weeks in office. That makes her the shortest-tenured Prime...
In this latest Domain Query, I address a rather interesting question from LRFotS Randale6 that touches on the thorny and tricky issue of thinking machines and artificial intelligence, while referencing the greatest sci-fi novel ever written. Here’s the...
Dr. James Tour’s name should be fairly familiar to regular readers of this site. I have mentioned him a number of times before, particularly with respect to his seminal presentation about the known problems with Origin-of-Life (OoL) research. Dr. Tour is a...
I have been trying to tell just about anyone with sense enough to listen, since pretty much the middle of April, that the SANKSHUNS against those damned ROOOOOOOOSKEEES!!!, are actually useless at best and extremely counterproductive at worst. In reality, the Western...
The picture you see above was taken early yesterday by Russians on the eastern bank of the Kerch Strait, a narrow (but still significant) body of water that separates the Crimean Peninsula from the Russian mainland. It shows the results of an attempt by the Ukrainian...
The main Didactic Mind podcast is finally back with a new episode. In this one, I argue that we are already in a World War – whether you call it World War III or IV at this point, I don’t know or care, but the fact is that we ARE dealing with a global war...
The Domain Query series is finally back, after a long hiatus. This week’s question comes from a reader and subscriber to my Telegram channel – be sure to subscribe if you have not done so already, it’s a great community of like-minded men who...
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