(excerpt from GWYD section 8.1): If you believe that any of the technologies we have talked about are possible (and there certainly are some good reasons to think so), then it would seem that we can look forward to a very interesting future. It may be that we are destined to be a race of [...]
I thought it would be fun to post this cartoon from God Wants You Dead. When I was working on the book, I tried to get several different artists I know to draw this one for me, but none of them would touch it. Apparently they feared for their lives, so I ended up having [...]
Vera Verba Blog got hacked by spammers and, for various reasons that I won’t go into, I don’t want to fix the problem. So, instead, I shut it down and am moving all my old posts here. I am also moving various posts from other places on the net to try to consolidate them to [...]
The best real argument for anthropogenic global warming appears to me (and I don’t think I am constructing a straw man here, but feel free to correct me if I am – or if I am missing anything) to be: 1. There is a historical correlation between atmospheric CO2 and temperature. This correlation is probably [...]
Recently, I have been thinking about the things that give people faith in science. As a mental exercise I have created some scenarios concerning scientific claims that shed light on when I will or will not believe alarming claims by scientists. In each case, if the given scenario represented reality, I am sure that some [...]
This was my first time giving any sort of presentation in front of a crowd – at least since grade school. So, I was facing a fear of mine here. I have been on national radio and TV a few times, but that is really just talking to two or at most three people; one [...]
