Sometimes fealty to a coin starts to sound like a religion, or at least is pursued with religious fervor. So I figured it could use a ten commandments style list of rules: The Ten Commandments of Bitcoin

The McGill Office for Science and Society created a video about a cure for cancer that has known for years but was banned by the FDA: Spoiler alert: it doesn't work. Everything in the video is made up,

Hole in the Fence is the first part of a three-part Radiolab podcast about people crossing the US-Mexico border. If you have been following along with the increasingly escalated rhetoric of late (how could

This surprise episode of car pool karaoke is the most uplifting thing I've watched all year, it's bright others to years. I hope it is equally enjoyable for you.

Quoth the raven nevermore.

I've posted on several junk-science topics before - astrology, and homeopathy among them. Then today I came across a crowdfunded campaign on Indiegogo for Bandito, a wrist-worn mosquito repellent band.

Passionflower

It would be nice if Uber applied this technology to their drivers too - to detect if they are cheating on the time clock by driving for another ride share company and hence driving too many hours. I've

I attended the 2018 Skeptical conference today and one of the speakers, Carrie Sager, was challenging us to be skeptical of common myths about homelessness. That position was based on her long experience

I visited a local park yesterday for a pot luck picnic and there was this tall spindly pine tree over us. It looked like it had been struck by lightning as one side was charred. Pointing the camera up

In my opinion there's a lot of good stuff in this article about Facebook and social media by Nat Eliason In particular, I'd highlight: Facebook’s product is not the platform, it’s us a company wants to

In "Facebook’s Decline of 2017 is Coming to Light" Michael Spencer has collected a whole bunch of statistics about Facebook use that indicate it broadly declined over 2017. While you may have

Well this is going to create a huge stink... I can imagine many people leaving Github because of it. I mean if you're Amazon or Google do you really want your private software repositories in Microsoft's

Went paragliding and got some nice shots from about 5000' MSL (3000' AGL) as the sun was coming down for a sweet and mellow "glass off". Accidental selfie with St John...

I went flying over the weekend and as well as getting a couple of hours of great airtime I was lucky enough to be flying with a friend who was rocking (well dangling actually) a Rylo 360-degree video camera.

A cloudscape near Lassen Volcanic National Park...

At Google I/O today Google just demonstrated how their Google Assistant can not only make a phone call for you (that's old news) but also then have a natural language conversation on your behalf. So now

Superintelligent machines are here. At least on (white) paper. Game over folks - now what are we going to do? To summarize the white paper entitled "A Mathematical Framework for Superintelligent

If you're like me you've seen ads for XYO Network's ICO all over the place. The idea sounded very familiar but I realized it was because I'd heard about a similar project called FOAM last year. So I decided

Hawaii resident Travis Sanders filmed this from the roof of a house (his I think, not sure). It's an amazing river of lava bubbling and flowing at the bottom of the yard. I've been to Hawaii and watched