Category Archives: Core thought

There is no ‘planet B’ – yet we’re using it already

Posted on July 29, 2021 by pendantry

Happy§ Earth Overshoot Day! Time to celebrate: we’re now using almost three-quarters of ‘planet B’. Shame it doesn’t exist. Back in 2014, I wrote a set of edicts I would apply ‘If I ruled the world‘. One of those (#4) … Continue reading →

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Experience the numinous total solar eclipse

Posted on July 27, 2021 by pendantry

The Sun is 400 times the size of the Moon. It is also 400 times farther away — so both Sun and Moon appear to be the same size. It hasn’t always been this way; the Moon is moving away … Continue reading →

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‘The climate is always changing’: true, but not helpful

Posted on July 20, 2021 by pendantry

“When we already believe the world to be a certain way, then we interpret new experiences to fit with those beliefs, whether they actually do or not.” Thus spake Veritasium I had another post scheduled for today, but this one … Continue reading →

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Veritasium on the biggest myth in education

Posted on July 13, 2021 by pendantry

“When we already believe the world to be a certain way, then we interpret new experiences to fit with those beliefs, whether they actually do or not.” Thus spake Veritasium Veritasium: This video is about learning styles. What kind of … Continue reading →

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Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures

Posted on July 6, 2021 by pendantry

It may (or may not) have been Carl Linnaeus who classified our species as ‘homo sapiens sapiens‘ in the late 18th Century. As you probably know, that label derives from Latin: ‘homo’ means ‘man’, while ‘sapiens’ can be translated as … Continue reading →

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The Koala Conspiracy

Posted on July 3, 2021 by pendantry

Originally posted on Adaptive Diversity:
Do marsupials even exist? The word of the year for 2016 is officially “post-truth.” It seems a lot of folks just don’t care very much for facts. Instead, they form beliefs based on subjective feelings…

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Daryl Davis Is Still Going Strong

Posted on June 30, 2021 by pendantry

Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
In 2017, Keith and I both wrote about a man named Daryl Davis, a Black man who is doing more than his share to help white supremacists stop being white supremacists, one at a…

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Is it actually true that seeing is believing?

Posted on June 29, 2021 by pendantry

What colour are the dots? The dots inside these hearts are distinctly blue or green, right? Wrong. The dots inside the hearts are all exactly the same colour. Here’s a section of the top left of the same image, where … Continue reading →

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From 1985: Warnings from Carl Sagan and Al Gore (Take Two)

Posted on June 22, 2021 by pendantry

Climate deniers will have a hard time explaining these to their grandchildren, the kids who are now woke to the disasters they’ve been served by blindness and greed. Astounding find by climatestate. Source: Climate Denial Crock of the Week I … Continue reading →

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Planned obsolescence: conspiracy fact, not conspiracy theory

Posted on June 8, 2021 by pendantry

One of my very earliest wibblettes, back in 2007, was a simple rant about the very topic that ‘Veritasium’ expounds here. I’ve touched on the subject several times since (for instance in 2011, when I asked the question “Hey, clever … Continue reading →

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