Friday, April 20th, 2018
I Am Sub-Human I know, I know, you’ve suspected all along. Well I’m here to confirm it. I am not entirely human. I am part something else. Part Neanderthal. Until very recently, the scientific consensus had been that Neanderthals went extinct 30,000 years ago. But recent DNA testing has proven the vast majority of Europeans
Friday, April 28th, 2017
Celebrity scientist Neil Degrasse Tyson has a new video out on YouTube where he makes an impassioned plea for Science in America. Not surprisingly, there is no science in the video whatsoever, instead a plea not for...
Monday, November 21st, 2016
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Internet, I’m afraid to report that our new crisis is Global Freezing. NASA reports that Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum Worst of all, it is all man’s fault. Industrial pollution...
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money.” Every now and then this quote will show up, usually being employed by...
Saturday, October 17th, 2015
In the early 1980s a young violin teacher named Roberta Tzavaras decided to bring classical music to three Harlem public elementary schools. The problem was, there were far more students than violins. To solve this problem, as...
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015
After a photograph of an emaciated polar bear hobbling on ice went viral online, some people are wondering if global warming is causing these majestic creatures to starve. Photographer Kerstin Langenberger, who snapped photo, wrote a concerned...
Monday, May 18th, 2015
Vaccines get all the glory, but most plumbers can tell you that it was sewage systems and clean water that got rid of disease, and they’re right. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europeans despised all...
Monday, December 8th, 2014
No one likes typhoons, with the possible exception of CNN. As yet another typhoon ravaged the Philippines, leaving a wake of destruction, there is not much to like. The human suffering caused by these mega-storms cannot help...
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Where Marta Ortega’s family used to raise pigs is now being overtaken by jungle. Instead of farming, her children have moved to New York or Panama City, and Marta now gets her food at the supermarket. In...
Friday, November 14th, 2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned from China with a deal on Carbon Cuts intended to combat Climate Change. The ‘deal’ consists of three parts: 1. President Obama pledged to cut US carbon emissions by 26-28%...
Sunday, September 28th, 2014
What if psychiatric drugs like Prozac and Zoloft were no more effective than a lump of sugar? What if there were natural ways to combat depression that were completely free? Dr. Irving Kirsch analyzed 38 separate clinical...
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
662,000 square miles of ice. More than twice the size of Texas, four times the size of California, or twelve times the size of New York state. Any way you cube it, that’s a lot of ice....
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
A recent NASA study predicted that civilization would end in the next 20 years if we do not change our ways. The study made the rounds on social media as such sensational predictions are apt to do....
Saturday, November 30th, 2013
There were 1455 weather records set last week in the U.S.A. the vast majority of them on the cold side. They include: 205 record snowfalls 203 low temperatures 969 low maximum temperatures These includes snow in Dallas,...
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Gumball Immigration
Using thousands of gum balls, Roy Beck drives home a simple idea, that if we are to help the poor of the world, we need to help them where they are.