Author: Stable Genius

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Global warming ‘hiatus’ never happened, Stanford scientists say

An apparent lull in the recent rate of global warming that has been widely accepted as fact is actually an artifact arising from faulty statistical methods, Stanford scientists say. … “By using both datasets, nobody can claim that we made up a new statistical technique in order to get a certain result,” said Rajaratnam, who… Continue reading Global warming ‘hiatus’ never happened, Stanford scientists say

What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know?

if you could preserve only one single sentence, I would push for: ‘The natural world is not governed by whimsical gods, but is essentially mechanical and can therefore be understood and then predicted by people, using careful observation, experimentation, and measurement, and importantly by testing your explanations to try to refute them.’ It’s this reiterative… Continue reading What Is The One Fact Humanity Needs To Know?

Female Spies and Gender-Bending Soldiers Changed the Course of the Civil War

In this climate, women made great spies precisely because of the way 19th-century society underestimated them. During the Civil War, they “were able to take society’s ideas about the weakness of womanhood and brilliantly exploit them,” Abbott says. “Women were always supposed to be the victims of war, not the perpetrators. One of my favorite… Continue reading Female Spies and Gender-Bending Soldiers Changed the Course of the Civil War

In Africa, Chinese Developers Are Building A Mini-China

Development is happening quickly, though not as quickly as megacities grew in China. Of 50 economic zones planned nine years ago, only six have been built. Developers are struggling to adapt to the differences in various African cultures and differences in governance. “I think from Chinese point of view, the biggest danger is corruption in… Continue reading In Africa, Chinese Developers Are Building A Mini-China

The Bush administration’s enormous national security failure, in one tweet

The Bush administration’s enormous national security failure, in one tweet

You see in Bush’s conduct and Cornyn’s tweet a persistent unwillingness to recognize the existence of disparate forces in the world. Al-Qaeda merges alternately with Saddam Hussein or the regime in Iran in a hazy muddle of “Muslims behaving badly.” It’s a deeply flawed analysis of the world and it’s one of the main reasons it took so long for bin Laden to be brought to justice.

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(via Voters Love Obama’s Ideas When They Think They’re Trump’s) The explanation seems to be GOP positions are not popular with the GOP. I’d like to see the exact same thing done with Trump’s positions and Hillary’s positions on likely democratic voters. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Paul Krugman:Trump Is Right on Economics

all indications are that Mr. Bush’s attacks on Mr. Trump are falling flat, because the Republican base doesn’t actually share the Republican establishment’s economic delusions. (via Trump Is Right on Economics – The New York Times) When Trump came out for raising income taxes on the rich, like him for saving social security and for… Continue reading Paul Krugman:Trump Is Right on Economics