Why do we play the National Anthem at pro sports events?
We play the national anthem because it was used as marketing - to transfer patriotism to sports ticket sales. Amazing story.
Trust in “experts” falls over past 4 years
Health care professions, including veterinary medicine, and engineers, are rated highly. After that, the ratings fell off a cliff.
Healthcare: Analysis of the 2014 ACA Act
I wrote this long paper in 2016, analyzing and explaining why ACA ObamaCare policies became unaffordable.
Climate, Public Health: Medical journal editors demand WHO declare global climate health emergency
Medical journal editors demand that WHO declare a global public health climate emergency and set in motion putting the technocratic elite in charge.
Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Practice Factfulness
Practice factfulness and learn to think for yourself. If you do not practice factfulness, then you are being manipulated to believe things that are not true. And you have no…
Fact checking a fact check: “protected bicycle lanes make streets safer for cyclists”
There are nearly a thousand bike related fatalities per year. Most fatal accidents involve a vehicle. Thus, separating bikes in physically separated bike path will likely reduce fatal accidents. Source:…
Out sick – continued
Still out sick: Out sick – Coldstreams Skeptic Yesterday started out much better but late in the afternoon my fever shot up to 102.5, dropped to 101 by 1 am,…
Memory issues on the blog
I have several blogs running on a shared web server host. For several months, they have been offline 1-3% of the time – which is terrible uptime performance. Yesterday, the…
Demographics: Are retiring Baby Boomer’s causing inflation?
Simplistic perspective: Fewer people working because they have elected to retire makes it more difficult to cure the economy’s supply-demand imbalance. Source: Why retiring Baby Boomers may make it harder…
Create an Access Control List to Block Countries or Continents
If you run a web server or WordPress blog and want to block a country, like say, Russia, from having access to your web site, the following may be helpful:…
Health: Cycling head injuries are a low probability but high-risk event
Head injuries are a low probability but very high-risk event when bicycling or motorcycling or even skateboarding. Much is made of the story about the Attorney who fought Florida helmet…
Finance: Are you saving too much for retirement? Probably.
Previously: The fundamental question is – “Should you save when you are relatively poor so you can have more when you are relatively rich?” This week: This week’s latest on…
Life: Minimalism is Still Dead
Minimalism is the practice of decluttering one’s life – and many adherents took it to extremes, limiting themselves to owning an arbitrary 100 to 200 items and living in barren…