The limits of control
2026-07-08 13:23 The Swedish society is secularised.  Religion is not such a large part of most people’s lives anymore.  The presence of religious symbols are usually not a problem.  It is only certain individuals being troubled by certain symbols.
Myths on available technology
2026-05-13 13:02 echnological progress is something misunderstood by conspiracy talkers.  Claimed conspirators are supposed to have technology which is decades ahead of the publically developed.  The trouble is limited capacity to keep inventions secret.
On the Moon landings
2026-05-09 16:26 Denial of the Moon landings is a good example of faulty expectations. Conspiracy talkers don’t ask themselves if their expectations hold true. When expectations are faulty real is mistaken for false.
Why and when scientists change their minds
2026-04-25 21:37 Individuals outside the scientific mainstream often complain about people within it refusing to listen to them. As if listening was the same as accepting an idea. Real scientists make high demands for accepting the ideas of others.
What is random chance?
2025-11-30 13:54 Random chance is what can’t be controlled or predicted. A great deal can be predicted like the movements of the celestial bodies. This is then a matter of physics which can be calculated rather easily.
Weather is outside human control
2025-11-18 12:33 Some have hard coming to terms with the idea something can’t be controlled.  The fear they display leads to the most absurd ideas.  I have read about people denying that natural weather phenomena would exist nowadays.
Plate tectonics and the origin of the continents
2024-06-28 12:53 Most know about continental drift.  What not as many know about, is the greater plate tectonics.  The Earth’s crust is divided in 8 – 10 pieces at least the size of continents.  (Two of the pieces are on the way to split in two each.)
The basics of geology
2024-06-23 17:03 Uniformitarianism is based on the idea of geology being explainable in terms of directly observable processes.  Certainly, processes can take place at different paces.  But this is still the same processes at different orders of magnitude.
Distances in space
2024-04-24 12:31 It can be hard to grasp exactly how empty space is.  The astronomer David Morrison once got the question...
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...