NoTricksZone today carries an excellent list of 47 ‘bloopers’ which are highly entertaining, if somewhat unsettling too. Climate Science Humiliated…Earlier Model Prognoses Of Warmer Winters Now Today’s Laughingstocks 47: “The past is no longer a guide to the future. We no longer have a stationary climate,”… Independent, Dr. Peter Stott, Met Office, 27 Jul 2007 ...
The evolutionary model of cultural information transfer is based on the concept that units of information, or “memes”, have an independent existence, are self-replicating, and are subject to selective evolution through environmental forces. Starting from a proposition put forward in the writings of Richard Dawkins, it has since turned into a new area of study, ...
From ‘How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays’ by Umberto Eco (Between the Tigris and the Euphrates, in the shade of the Hanging Gardens, not many thousands of years ago) URUK: How do you like the cuneiform characters? My new serf-writer composed the whole beginning of the Hammurabi code in about ten hours. ...
By Motm Yes the date is 12/21/12 — December 21st 2012 We are here waiting for something good to happen! I joke of course — Unfortunately in bad taste. But even I -an eternal optimist- must now admit to be pessimistic. It all started one day not so long ago when some bright spark said ...