All Aboard the Onmibus! | Vol. 3 / No. 8
On Friday, US President Barack Obama signed into law a massive, $1.1 trillion spending bill, which, perhaps in reference to its 2,242 pages, or to the fact that it funds damn near everything, is referred […]
Month: December 2015
Trudeau Launches an Inquiry | Vol. 3 / No. 7.5
A little inquiry into a persistent problem. *** Despite the fact that the internet has been doing its very best in the past 48 hours to fill me with feminist rage by telling me about […]
An Ocean Discovery X Prize | Vol. 3 / No. 7.4
*** I love the X Prize Foundation. I love the whole concept, which, in short, is that since the “invisible hand” of the market doesn’t provide all the incentives required to generate the forward momentum we […]
A Reminder: Myers-Briggs is Just Astrology for Pseudoscientists | Vol. 3 / No. 7.3
I don’t know why, but the personality test calling itself the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (and the added Keirsey Temperaments) keeps popping up again, so I thought I’d take a minute to remind everyone that it’s about […]
Another E-Cigarette Post: Diacetyl | Vol. 3 / No. 7.2
It’s the e-cigarette debate: “popcorn lung” edition. *** The headline hit the news sites last week that certain flavouring agents in e-cigarette liquids contain potentially dangerous compounds. Well, that’s what it would have said. Instead it […]
Your Monday Crazy | Vol. 3 / No. 7.1
Yesterday I woke up to a news story entitled US town fears solar farms would “suck up all energy from the sun.” Now, I don’t know if these people are totally crazy, or if they just […]
Agreeing About Climate Change, Identifying Ceres’s Bright Spots, and Approving XSTAT | Vol. 3 / No. 7
With COP21 wrapping up in Paris and the mystery of Ceres’s bright spots solved, we’ve got a bit to get to this week, so let’s get started. *** Climate Change Agreement A draft agreement was […]
Yes, Sex Workers Can Be Raped | Vol. 3 / No. 6.5
This #FeministFriday post discusses sexual assault, not in great detail, but perhaps enough to be worth pointing out before we start. *** Much like the phrase “I’m not a racist, but,” the phrase “you can’t […]
Google’s Quantum Computer | Vol. 3 / No. 6.4
In which I largely fail to describe what’s going on. *** In the news yesterday, it came out that the “D-Wave X2 Quantum Computing System” that Google teamed with NASA to buy in 2013 does seem to […]
Satoshi Nakamoto Once Again? | Vol. 3 / No. 6.3
The internet is abuzz once again with the rumour that we’re (once again) about to discover the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. *** As of yesterday there are two new names you can […]