The origin of human language
2024-09-29 15:54 Some imagine “cavemen” with a very limited language.  If they talk at all people imagine pidgin.  The present-day human species have never talked like that when people spoke their mother tongue.
The origin of humanity
2024-09-27 14:40 I know people don’t like being grouped with monkeys.  However, purely biologically we are.  Our genus (Homo) have only had one species (Homo sapiens) since at least the end of the last ice age.
Famous prehistoric mammals
2024-09-09 13:04 After the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass-extinction it took 15 million years for the world to recover.  Mammals and birds then evolved to take over the role of the dinosaurs.  Towards the end whales arose too take over after the plesiosaurs.
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 heavenly bodies
2024-04-18 12:49 Many seem to lack basic knowledge on the movements of the heavenly 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 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.
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.