What global warming means
2024-05-22 13:19 Climate change means a shifting in statistical averages.  In the case of global warming this means a shift to the warmer.  Mostly this affects areas situated closer to the poles.
The myth of the arbitrary movements of the celestial bodies
2024-04-18 12:49 Many seem to lack basic knowledge on the movements of the celestial bodies.  This applies to things like the following...
Orders of magnitude matters
2024-03-21 12:39 It is important to keep track of which order of magnitude something has.  Otherwise one’s concepts of nature risk becoming far too erroneous.  Which in turn creates needless fear.
The limits of oral tradition
2024-03-13 13:18 Among pseudohistorians there is an overconfidence in oral traditions.  Detailed knowledge of the past is believed to be passed on for millennia.  To me this appears preposterous.
On digital images
2024-03-07 12:55 Most types of digital images have a limited resolution.  One can’t get as much information as one likes out of them.  Many over-interpretations of such are based on attempts to get information out which were not there in the first place.
The problems with UFO reports
2024-03-06 12:37 UFO was originally acronym for unidentified flying object.  Unfortunately, there are a lot believing everything which is unidentified have to be made by aliens.  The result is there now being “ufologists” defending this wrongful idea.
The limits of human memory
2024-03-01 12:48 A great deal on people seem to believe their memory to be perfect.  The trouble is human memory is part of human nature.  Processes taking place naturally can’t create anything perfect.
Change does not have to be bad
2024-02-27 13:21 Some seem to have trouble grasping that enemies can be imaginary.  I primarily think about individuals believing loads of others to be out to them.  Once it might have been normal to believe that very many of one’s fellow beings are evil.
Is anything at all self-evident?
2024-02-26 10:58 Some individuals may claim the existence of God to be self-evident.  Trouble is I have seen philosophers in the last couple of centuries treat the most absurd ideas as objectively true.
On the absence of religion
2024-02-23 16:54 Non-believers are people which don’t worship anything.  Usually, the have insufficient natural talent for religious belief.  People inevitably vary in their inborn capacity for religiosity.