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Neil deGrasse Tyson's best anti-science smackdowns
Watch the clip below for some good intellectual ass-kicking.
Connie
The rest of the story here: FOLLOW THE WHITE BALL
Best Bookmark Ever
Pork Chops
And there is more (thanks, Rev).
We are still Canada. We will survive this current illness that is The Harper Government.
With all our warts and wrinkles, we are Canada.
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
With a big tip o' the hat to The Rev at Radio Woodshed!
Good on ya, Rev. Keep on keeping ON, my brotha!
Germanwings Flight 9525
More: Are we sure the co-pilot was the killer?
I had to cheat
The affiction that dare not speak its name
Peyronies
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
Damn you Steve
One thousand one hundred and eighty-one
Rick's Rant
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
The definition of terrorism
Pilot's Tip of the Week
Question: "While flying on a VFR night cross country recently, I lost my alternator. Could I have continued to my home airport, a class C airport about 35 minutes away rather than diverting to a nearby Class D airport? I have been told that a good battery should last 45 minutes to one hour."
- Joe F.
Answer:"This question poses a good example of difficult aeronautical decision making.
Proceeding to our destination is a strong pull since we pilots always like to complete the mission. Whereas landing short presents a bunch of problems such as how will we get to the destination? How will we get back to get the airplane? Can it get fixed at this airport? Sure would be nice to get home if I could.
One of your first decisions comes as you work the checklist where it tells you to turn off non-essential electrical loads. How about your navigation lights, beacon lights and strobes? Remember, it's night time so turning all those off will prolong your battery life but also make you invisible. Which is safer, being able to talk or being visible?
Of course if your battery holds out, you can get home on time but the other side of that is the possibility that you could be arriving at a busy class C airport with no lights and no radio. Not a pretty situation. Not to mention that depending upon your airplane you may also be required to do a manual landing gear extension and perhaps a no flap landing.
Since we have no way to know just how long the battery will hold up in this situation, I would not be willing to risk a stealth arrival at a class C airport. I think that could be very difficult to explain knowing I passed up closer landing opportunities. Instead I would pick the closer airport, inform the tower that you may lose communication and get on the ground."
I have lived this ...
Wol
I Imagine Someone Knocked On The Tree Just A Second Before The Picture Was Taken
Tweet of the day
IMDb is run by a really proud bee.
— Liz Buckley (@liz_buckley) February 4, 2015
How To. And How NOT To.
Welcome to the weekend,kiddies
It's Friday, the first day of spring. And this is Jack Semple. Saskatchewan boy.
Tweet Of The Day
'Nuff said!! Cdn values oppose racism & bigotry! Harper only knows CON values & NOT Cdn values. STAND 4 Cdn values! pic.twitter.com/zvsW3QekaS
— Sandra Harris (@sandra_harris) March 17, 2015
Rick's Rant
Browsers!
As Thousands Protest Bill C-51, A Comedian's Reminder
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Optical Illusion
When the black bars are removed, you?ll see that they?re always parallel and that the black bars are distorting your brain?s perception of movement.
Unscheduled Musical Interlude
Thanks, Trud!
Welcome To The Weekend, Kiddies
It's the weekend,kiddies. Enjoy the hell out of it!
A Guide to Logical Fallacies
The "Ad Hominem" & Other Fallacies Explained in 2-Minute Videos
See also:
- Moving The Goal Posts Fallacy
- The Fallacy Fallacy
- The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
- The Strawman Fallacy
- The Black and White Fallacy
- The Authority Fallacy
- The "No True Scotsman" Fallacy
Shamelessly stolen from Open Culture
See also An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments.
Daylight Saving Time
International Women's Day
In solidarity.
Welcome to the weekend, kiddies
Tweet Of The Day
@MJGlass2 @Chuckw12 @HeatherRenwick @vansopinion8ted @metrotoronto Did you know that..... pic.twitter.com/JSA4ErL6RS
— Kitt Em (@kiteie) March 6, 2015
There is some hope ...
for the human race.
For Mrs. Brown's fans
Rick's Rant
All Night Long
During a bit of stage banter at a New York show last summer, musician Matt Nathanson casually played the first few chords of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long." As Matt brought Andrew McMahon onstage to do Tom Petty's "American Girl" he tore into the riff for "You Shook Me..." and the crowd just took it from there. You can see drummer Chris Lovejoy and guitarist Aaron Tap exchange glances and then Andrew asks Aaron "What's happening?" and Aaron responds, "I don't know" - it just kept getting better from there! Aaron Tap kills the guitar solo (as Matt notes after the song) - bravo!
It was only meant to punctuate something he was saying between songs in his set, but the crowd picked it up immediately and didn't let the song end.
You can feel the electric energy between the band and the audience even just watching it on YouTube ...
Thanks, Trud!
How To Speak Saskatchewanian
Why is the Harper government still treating veterans like the enemy?
March 3, 2005: Mayerthorpe
Mama May Have
A Bouncing Baby
Thanks, M! (A.K.A. @trancewithme)!
Just looking in the wayback machine. Zag archives, February 2013.
It seems hardly possible that it has been over two years since we lost Pogge - Robin Hills.
I never met Rob in person. Only online at Peace, Order, and Good Government, Eh. And I still think of him as "sensei".
Intellectually honest. Scrupulous. And welcoming to Some Old Guy both in his blog and offsite by email.
Here's to you, Rob. And to skadl, too.
I miss you both. Here's to you.
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