vixen99

'I can't think of one therefore there isn't one'. Maybe, maybe not.

True or false, that's an assertion. Does anyone have any stats so that those outside the field (mostly taxpayers?) can assess all of this?

Yes and it tells us zilch about the reality of the situation.

'...there is no evidence that she obtained any novel mathematical results. She left no published mathematical papers. Nor are there manuscripts from her containing anything mathematically novel. …

It's happening bit by bit: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/09/green-energies-shatte... …

It's questionable how much the Tonga eruption which sent an 'Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere' has had on the climate. Some temporary warming was certainly predicted and …

Why is this comment noteworthy? He is a smart guy irrespective of whomsoever makes this observation.

Some quote! "I work in a bank and cash handling is a major headache". Doubtless but perhaps we should reconsider the larger purposes of the banks in relation to their customers.

Why not? Sounds like a good idea if 'randomly' isn't taken too literally.

Yes and of course they weren't dumb questions. As a young student beginning to attend research seminars I remember that it tended to be those at the top of the academic pecking order who asked th…

So are the atomic accretions known as humans who have 'wants' part of 'pop science'? Free will? If not, our justice system needs massive reconsideration, an idea with which many pe…

Your conclusion assumes the PISA test actually reflects students' abilities. This may not be the case. My daughter when attending a Romanian school told me that students know the PISA results pla…

And wind turbine manufacturers would agree: UK December wind generation: Generation: 2.6 TWh Subsidy/MWh : £86.68 Market Price/MWh: £75.00

So is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception (In short: a mescaline trip in May 1953) Did Aldous Huxley take himself too seriously?…

I can't speak for New York but I question just how increasingly many London residents do not share values with surrounding townships and vice versa.

I certainly do not support eugenics applied to humans but let's note that we are absolutely apply it to all other life forms on Earth to produce advantageous variants for our various purposes. It…

You forgot to add any links for this blanket statement.

Merely an observation: no tax thus far exacted by any government anywhere has had any measurable effect on the global climate, again, thus far. Taxes relating to emissions and the like relate to emi…

> The real problem driving genocide is a feeling of superiority of one group over another. Real? Where's the overall evidence for that? The capitalist system is inarguably superior to a comma…

We are told that the instructions for executing 10/7 were quite specific. Has a convincing reason been given for why on earth anyone, whatever their final objective, would want to proceed in that…

The title seems (unless the data since 2016 tells a different story) at odds with the 2016 Nature paper by Zhu et.al and others who conclude from satellite observations that "show a persistent an…

Some background: https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/topic-overviews/re... …

Not sure about that. Announce a climate emergency with huge implications I don't need to detail and you might get away with anything irrespective of support.

When considering its purpose, does anyone else find something distasteful (to put it much too politely) about the whole idea of this experiment? And then there's this. https://www.wire…

And no need for it. I don't think I have any books printed in the first half of the 20th century with yellowing pages. That's not the case with certain publishers in the recent past who, I g…

Cheaper at what cost? Two wrongs don't make a it right so putting aside issues with fossil fuel, let's not ignore an elephant in the room in terms of the human rights issues involved in the …

> The notation is just whatever is most convenient to people for taking notes at the time. That 'at the time' now seems to have extended to around 400 years (in Western classical traditio…

And of course, very often not only their own parts but to varying extents, those of their fellow musicians if they're not playing a solo composition.

I'm reminded of how the repercussions of this 1066 battle at Hastings are with us today in Britain. Gregory Clark in 'The Son also rises' shows by genealogical tracking how, following t…