Hans Rosling: Stats that reshape your world-view
Incredible video from the TED Talks Video Series The website of Hans Rosling’s Gap Minder Website has a Downloadable Version of the Program He is Using.
The Sports Idiots Brackets
Predicted Round Two Accuracy Round Two Accuracy 66.06% +/- 8 71.87% Original Predicted Third RoundAccuracy Revised Estimate 39.03% +/- 8 44.31 +/- 4 I know absolutely nothing about sports … seriously I could not tell the difference between a basketball, a football or a football. Every year everybody at work wants
Liberal Viewer’s Fox News Bias Playlist Reaches 200
In his recent video, You Tube’s liberal viewer has announced that his Fox New’s Bias Playlist has reached 200 videos, the maximum allowed by You Tube. Allen Asch, aka Liberal Viewer, has been documenting media bias and dishonesty and bias since 2006. He has a lawyers precision and always documents and cites his sources, providing links for those
How Anti-Feminism is Poisoning Atheism
Links: Thunderf00ts Anti-Feminists Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKQdJR7F_I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApozFPboUAQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1mLHdTsmPc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96FtpDLi_Vw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPfX2tMoPic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKH3trPpgY The Skepticon Anti-Harassment Policy discussed by both Thunderf00t and myself: http://skepticon.org/policy/ Amy Roth’s Full Interview Was on this pod cast: http://s3.amazonaws.com/RealityCasts/RH_realitycast_245.mp3 Rebecca Watson’s Elevatorgate Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKHwduG1Frk Skepchick page o’Hate where with the charming rape/death threats: http://skepchick.org/page-o-hate/ Way Back Machine to Thunderf00t’s old blog: http://web.archive.org/web/20120630083544/http://freethoughtblogs.com/thunderf00t/2012/06/26/ffs-pz-myers-enough-with-the-strawmen/
A Critique Of Austrian Monetary Theory Part 1: The Austrian Money Supply
One of the great annoyances of the day is the inability of many to understand the differences between legitimate debates and weird debates were one side obviously knows more than the other. In the olden days of political economy there was the traditional divide between the two mainstream schools of thought on money and inflation,
Some Quick Links on Climate Change
Well I’ve read some nice stuff giving simple explanations climate change recently. Skeptic Magazine has an excellent article entitled ”How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused” by Donald R. Prothero and The New York Times Dot Earth Blog has links to some videos by The National Research Counsel explaining climate change. Prothero’s article out lines the major pieces
All Men are Created Equal: An Essay for the Fourth
“A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst
Happy 4th of July
What to do in Syria?
As the atrocities of the Assad regime pile up, the question on everybody’s lips is what the international community will do about it and will everyone agree to the solution. What ever the answer to that question, we have to ask ourselves what things should we be looking out strategically with regard to this situation. We also need to
Brief Comments on “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” by Kenneth Waltz
The new Foreign Affairs has a fascinating article called ”Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” by well known neo-realist political scientist Kenneth Waltz. Waltz makes an excellent argument for why Iran obtaining nuclear weapons would not be the horrable catastrophe many believe. As a neo-realist Kenneth Waltz primarily views international relations as a constant anarchic balancing act. In his view Israel’s nuclear monopoly in the