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David Klinghoffer: Evolutionary thinking in a “state of decadence”
Sabine Hossenfelder makes it to Slashdot
New Scientist tries to undermine Cambrian explosion
Science journalist tells Steven Pinker, yes, we ARE living in a post-truth society
The science-based arguments against Copernicus and Galileo
At the Atlantic: Textbook evolution story is said to be WRONG
PragerU’s new vid explains science-based doubts about evolution
Rob Sheldon on the end of the internet Golden Age
How “single-study stories” build up science’s Neverland
What? David Berlinski and Gunter Bechly reply to Jerry Coyne … at Quillette?
The growth of the Internet, 1990 – 2019
Of general interest — and especially observe the rise of China, India and Nigeria: Food for thought. END PS: Jawa points to some interesting points of data with images worth highlighting. First, number of sites (where approx. 200 mn are regularly active): Likewise, it is noted by tekeye that “[d]espite there being over 1.5 billion websites only a few hundred dominate the Internet. Less than 1 million, or 0.1%, account for over 50% of web traffic. To get an idea on how much such a small percentage of the total websites dominate look at The Internet Map.”
Today is 9-11-01 + 18 years, let us remember
We owe a debt of honour to remember. So, in absence of the full 9 -hour CNN feed that seems to no longer be there, first NBC live: Here is a timeline: Let us remember, and let us remember that September 11, 2001 was the 318th anniversary of the lifting of the last, 1683 Ottoman siege of Vienna by Jan Sobieski of Poland and Lithuania, less one day. I add, the Jan Sobieski story: Yes, Osama bin Laden was making a claim to pick up from the previous high water mark of Islamist expansion to the West. And, he did that from a place that relative to Mecca is in the direction of Khorasan, which is of deep eschatological significance Read More ›