These fraudsters’ long careers suggest that academia has not been doing as good a job as it should performing reality checks.
— Read on www.takimag.com/article/reality-check/
Research and researchers, reader beware.
If you had the chance to talk to an extraterrestrial, what would you want to say? There’s a coalition of astronomers hoping to update an old message sent to aliens in 1974 that talked about the world as it was in the era of the Vietnam War and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. If you’re 5 to 16 years old, you can help craft the new message yourself — and if not, be sure to let the younger people in your life know how to get involved!
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/a-new-arecibo-message-to-extraterrestrials-needs-your-suggestions-curiosity
ET Phone home
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no… — Quote by C. S. Lewis
— Read on www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/quotemeal.cgi
Food for thought
The Weather Channel just declared that North America just had its most extensive November snow cover in at least a Half-Century. We really face Global Cooling as this is now the third winter which this is becoming the colder with each passing year. It is serious that the emphasis on Global Warming is distracting society to such an extent that we are making no preparation whatsoever to stockpile food reserves which is what we should be doing. As a former hedge fund manager, the best way to always maintain your performance is to assume you are always wrong. That forces you to have Plan B and Plan C with key lines that when crossed you are compelled to take action. We should be stockpiling food as a HEDGE right now. The worst outcome is the Global Cooling trend is wrong, then you have excess food to sell off. Best case is you survive a downturn. From a timing perspective, if we see next year get colder than this year, that will CONFIRM this is going to get much worse before it will get warm again and that first uptick may not take place until 2026. The computer is showing a commodity rally will arrive after 2020.
— Read on www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/weather-channel-declares-november-coldest-in-50-years/
Global cooling is the real trend.
People who have better spatial memory are also better at identifying odors, according to a new study. Researchers hypothesized that if this were indeed the case, there would be a strong link between navigation and olfaction.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/good-sense-of-direction-youve-probably-got-a-sensitive-nose-curiosity/
Interesting article
Climate Change (née Global Warming) is based on three premises: the earth’s atmosphere is warming; humans are responsible for that warming; and warming is inherently bad.
— Read on mises.org/library/dr-robert-murphy-dubious-economics-climate-change
Harvard scientists intend to block out the sun’s rays from earth as a way to defeat climate change. The geoengineering project is an attempt to cool the earth’s overall temperature.
— Read on prepforthat.com/harvard-scientists-block-suns-rays/
What?????
We’re proud to partner with companies like CuriosityStream that engage your mind while entertaining your senses. Scroll to the bottom of this article for a free episode. Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest minds in science. Over his impressive life, he made huge contributions to the planet’s understanding of everything from our tiny spot in the universe to the inner workings of reality’s most awe-inspiring phenomena. But his legacy doesn’t only lie in his breakthrough discoveries; it also lies in the engaging, approachable way he shared those discoveries with the public. When he passed away in March of 2018, the world lost a great thinker and storyteller — but that doesn’t mean we can’t revel in his genius today. There’s an award-winning documentary series he produced for CuriosityStream — the last complete series he ever appeared in — that you can watch right now.
What is happiness? It’s one of those questions that science just can’t answer. Or at least, that’s what we would have thought. But since 1938, a group of researchers at Harvard has been working away at the problem through a generation-spanning study of several hundred American men.
Imagine the weird environment on a comet. In the light gravity, it’s easy to hop and skip. The view is stunning; bright stars surround you, with no atmosphere to make them twinkle. And the best thing? If the comet is close enough to the sun, you’ll experience a space blizzard. An amazing animation on Twitter shows the view from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft. It visited a comet between 2014 and 2016. So much dust fills Rosetta’s view that it looks like it’s snowing.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/astronomers-once-watched-a-star-turn-directly-into-a-black-hole-curiosity/
More new understanding about outer space
John Barleycorn 
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