But the predictions that the Worldwide Covid Lockdown would crash U.S. stock markets simply turned out not to be true.
Author: Kip Hansen
UPHEAVAL – A Short Novel
Susan J. Crockford — biologist, author and bone whisperer – has today released her latest fiction effort: UPHEAVAL. and it is GREAT!
Cause of Death: A Primer
Various experts, journalists, bloggers, and pundits tells us that “Covid Deaths” are being over-counted, mis-counted and even under-counted. Other pundits and media-reported experts desperately try to reassure us that Covid…
Survey Results: Where Are All the Sick People?
The “Where Are All the Sick People?” survey has had nearly 3000 participants since its inception at 10 a.m. EST. Three questions were posed to illuminate the issue of the…
Where Are All the Sick People?
Guest Survey by Kip Hansen – 17 November 2020 When I am puzzled by something, I try to find out what’s really going on. Years ago, I wrote “What Are…
Burning Stuff is so 16th Century
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen – 4 November 2020 The image used here is of the charcoal-burning kilns in the Adirondacks, much of which were clear-cut in the late-1700s and…
Computational Hubris
Trillions of plastic debris fragments are afloat at sea, creating the “perfect storm” for microbial colonization. Introduced more than 50 years ago, plastic substrates are a novel microbial habitat in…
It’s a Good Time to Be Born
…Parents in the United States and in many other countries, and not just the very richest, are among the luckiest parents in history. We can, for the most part, hope…
Where Do the Plastic Bottles Go?
Primarily, as many of you already know, the labels “biodegradable” and “compostable” are for the most part simply marketing ploys — clever tactics used by marketers to drive more purchases…
Do Your Own Research?
Both of these essays are valuable – and contain truths we need to be aware of and accept. But they also represent the problem we see all across human endeavors…
A True Shaggy Dog Story
The brilliant zoologist and “bone whisperer” Susan J. Crockford has a new paper just published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Ladybug Lost
This is the time of year that ladybugs start to look for places to spend the winter. They don’t migrate like songbirds, but hibernate, more like bears or turtles. Many…
The Medical Thought Police – They’re Coming for You
A group calling itself “The Global Health Security Network (GHSN) Limited” was formed last June, in Australia. …. They have just issued their first Policy Report. that recommends policies that…
Turtles: Back to the Future!
He just got a reprieve! Sort of . . . This is a Burmese Roofed Turtle – thought to be extinct until it was re-discovered in 2002. Now scientists have…
Covid-19 Testing 1,000-times Too Sensitive?
Just how over-sensitive does Dr. Mina think that these PCR Covid tests are? 100 to 1,000 times too sensitive for the test to return a positive result “— at least,…
OPEN UP THE $%^*&*^% SCHOOLS!
Despite the best efforts of Journalists from Another Galaxy (The New York Times) to convince the general public otherwise, almost no U.S. children are dying from (or even with) Covid-19. …
You are Probably a Criminal. Hands Up–Drop the Feather!
The oddest thing is that this case seems to have been decided, in part, based on the opinion of a fictional character, Atticus Finch, one of the protagonists of Harper…
The Covid Lockdown and U.S. Stock Markets – August Update
Stock markets took an initial heavy hit back in March when the governments of the world issued edicts shutting down the economies of entire nations. Investors were scared silly. . .…
Strange Galactic Science
Many of the fields of Science practiced today seems to have veered off into some kind of Alternative Universe – some kind of “Science from a far and very different…
The Dangers of Narrative Journalism
“Some Narrative Journalism Concerns: One of the biggest worries editors and publishers have about narrative journalism is that because it’s a blend of facts and feelings, problems can occur. Recently,…
The Deadliest Animal in the World
“What makes mosquitoes so dangerous? Despite their innocuous-sounding name—Spanish for “little fly”—they carry devastating diseases. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year….”
One Fish, Two Fish, Sturddlefish
What is a struddlefish when it wakes up in the morning? A creature created by a mistake in a Hungarian fish breeding lab.
Chaos and Weather
The pioneering study of Lorenz in 1963 and a follow-up presentation in 1972 changed our view on the predictability of weather by revealing the so-called butterfly effect, also known as…
When a bird changes its song . . .
I like birds – big birds, small birds, common birds, rare birds – all kinds of birds. I have fed them in my backyard for years and watched then wherever…
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