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NYT – Don’t Shill for Fake Psychics

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Published: September 21, 2026 13:21

A recent article in the New York Times is, unfortunately, terrible journalism that ends up shilling for a fraudulent and exploitative industry. The author, Sarah Wildman, tells of her previous encounter with a medium through her unnamed cousin. Part of the…

Science Is (Partially) Socially Constructed

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Published: September 14, 2026 14:24

When you hear the phrase, “Science is socially constructed,” what does that mean to you? If you are a philosopher of science, you likely have a deep and nuanced understanding of exactly what that means. Unfortunately, in my experience, many scientists and…

Perhaps Star Trek’s Computer Voice Makes Sense

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Published: September 10, 2026 13:51

For many science fiction fans the computer voice on the Enterprise is iconic, and is, in fact, “the” voice of any computer. Majel Barrett deliberately gave the computer a stilted, monotone, mechanical voice to reflect the fact that it was a non-sentient…

Solar Is Booming

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Published: September 1, 2026 15:33

Solar power as a source of electricity has been on a meteoric rise, and has crossed some encouraging milestone recently. Every way you look at it, solar is booming. This is driven primarily by the decrease in the cost of adding solar power, so let’s start…

NASA’s New Roman Telescope Launches

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Published: August 31, 2026 12:51

On Sunday August 30, 2026, NASA successfully launched the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope aboard a Space X Falcon Heavy. This telescope has amazing capabilities and will add to our ability to study and understand the universe, with a special focus on…

AI-Assisted Research Training

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Published: August 27, 2026 14:01

There is a lot of legitimate concern over the net effects of students using AI to do their school work. If you let AI do your writing, then you will not learn how to write, for example. Or worse – if you let AI think for you, then you will not learn how to…

The Drones Are Coming

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Published: August 24, 2026 13:02

It should be clear by now that drone technology has crossed a technological threshold where they are cheap and efficient enough to have widespread use. They have transformed modern warfare. They are commonly used in surveillance. Over 75% of recent action…

Rethinking Human Taxonomy

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Published: August 20, 2026 13:18

In the last few decades our understanding of human evolution has expanded considerably. We have identified numerous new species, fleshing out a complex branching bush of relationships among early humans. But these discoveries have also caused a problem –…

Should We, and Can We, Terraform Mars?

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Published: August 17, 2026 12:57

Terraforming, altering a planet’s atmosphere and surface to make it more Earth-like, has become a staple of science fiction. The benefit of successfully terraforming a planet are huge in that we now have an entire planet we can settle without the need for…

Another Pentagon UAP Release – More Dots

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Published: August 11, 2026 12:36

I saw the movie, Disclosure Day. I was not impressed. It was (mild spoiler alert) a completely unimaginative wet dream of what the UFO community fantasizes the government is hiding from all of us. There were no new interesting angles or plot twists or…

The Deepfakes We Warned About Are Here

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Published: August 10, 2026 11:39

It’s interesting to go back to see articles I wrote years ago to see how they held up. In 2019 I wrote a post about the “Challenges of Deepfakes“, which I just reread. What I discussed held up pretty well – deepfakes have both the effect of spreading…