Seeing Signs Of Rational Minds

Sherlock (12:10) : ”These are my rats, John. If they start to move, I need to know”   

The ever gloomy UN-WWF Climate reports, just “sexed–up“, now supports fossil fueled fracking & naughty nuclear, saying the world is already saved so no lifestyle changes needed. Well done boys! Big Pharma’s “toxic to 1 in 150” Tamiflu tainted Roche, now forced by the independent Cochrane Collaboration, releases its experimental data & shows Big Govs worldwide wasted $billions. Apologies coming? Greenpeace’s Polar Bears are now up & “possibly moving further east“. A movement within The Movement? Maybe. 
              
UK Education boss now saying teachers are breaking the law when activist indoctrinating & “Green brainwashing” children. Even a music industry rapper is starting to stray, singing seditiously of “massive [climate] propaganda“. And Wikipedia is exposed again, as where woeful wrongs are wrought & truth dies online. Oh dear. New Enlightenment coming?
   
“We live in a world where one in six deaths are caused by easily curable infectious diseases; one in eight deaths stem from air pollution, mostly cooking indoors with dung and twigs; and billions of people live in abject poverty, with no electricity and little food. We ought never to have entertained the notion that the world’s greatest challenge could be to reduce temperature rises in our generation by a fraction of a degree.” Perhaps now we are giving up made-up human hazards & starting to concentrate on real natural hazards. Like these 5 simultaneous volcanic eruptions. Nature does not suffer fools gladly.
         
Freedom of Speech seems to be gaining in popularity too. The Aussie law chief is defending “views of those that disgaree” from sheer authoritarianism & feigning offence. Even the  University of Colorado is defending its (only?) conservative prof disagreeing on gender: “the LGBTQRSTUW (or whatever letters have been added lately) community” Great! So, lets learn liberty. Says Mark Steyn: “If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.”
 
Kepler 186f is NASAs latest Earth-like planet “discovery”. However it uses non Sun-like data around a cooler M-star & the assumptions are many. So it seems we will have a better chance with EUs ESA Plato probe in 2024 specifically designed for finding Earth’s around 1 million Sun-like stars. So let’s get our US Defence Depts DARPA 100 Year Star Ship ready for our British Icarus Interstellar World Ship voyages. Now that is a noble human goal, right up our human niche: using rational minds to search for knowledge for safer futures. 
Sign Seeing Brady

Inflated Inflatons

South pole BICEP2 telescope could have found the swirling fingerprints of our Universe’s inflation in our Inflaton. 0.5×10^-37 secs after the Big Bang, popping-in gravitons decayed our part of the Inflaton producing gravitational waves. Let’s hope we’re “seeing” it now
   
More good news! Malaria deaths down 29% since 2000. New HIV infections worldwide total since 2001 decreased 33% & 52% in children. Aids-related deaths down by 30 % since 2005. New tuberculosis cases falling & deaths down 45% since 1990. Maternal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth are down 50% since 1990. Polio down to 406 cases worldwide & Guinea Worm from 3 million in 1980 down today to just 3! WOW!
    
And … the battle against Bad Science continues. Top US scientific misconduct investigator resigns saying his ORI department is “secretive, autocratic and unaccountable” allowing “corruption, incompetence, dishonesty and fabrication” to flourish in Science. Oh dear.      
New UN climate report ignores its own science. “In every case, institutional scientists gained a lot of funding from the scare and then quietly converged on the view that the problem was much more moderate than the extreme voices had argued.” Not good. 
However, more people are abandoning poverty–making Earth Hour thinking. Good       
[Earth Hour™ being owned by Aussie newspapers (p80) & the Dark-Sided Panda WWF]
  
Technology now races apace … with higher wages, in unforeseen, more pleasant jobs with more freetime and ever cheaper needs. So, lets expand into our brilliant future of under-employed lifestyles where we look for further ways to play and help others … … by increasingly showing the signs of rational minds.
Inflaton trying Brady

Paleofantasies

Pleisto Probers,
Searching for truths from the past? Well, plan on digging deep.

   
Pleistocene Homo antecessor 800 000 year old footprints found and now washed away on English storm dug Happisburg beach pushing out Neanderthals as the earliest Europeans.  Science journal admits its evidence gold standard: p-value statistics is wrong. Oh dear. The beauty of science; “the more you find out, the more you realise what you did not know.” 
 
Movie stars, weather forecasters & politicians thinking they are each other are going native with death-spiral™ climate paleofantasies. Then calling for the purging of rationally opposing skeptics & scientists. Oh dear, back to the paleo-Soviet 1950s? EUs most enviro-scared & “in a bubble” Sweden invests heavily in olden solar & wind power as Uber-Green neighbours cut back furiously. Is Paleoenergy a fear driven tax money supported fantasy? 
UK floods blamed on Global Warming by politicos, Greens & Media until … a 2005 UK Environment Agency policy directive is found saying – “Let it flood“. Apologies? Not.       UK Met Office in Nov predicted a drier than normal winter. 13 of 14 wrong. What a mess.
    
As the famous world factist Julian Simon noted – people were inclined to believe the very worst about anything and everything; they were immune to contrary evidence just as if they’d been medically vaccinated against the force of fact. I blame our paleofantasizing Homo antecessor brains for driving today’s prelapsarian pseudoscience.
    
Sweden’s Feb 2014 Celsius Prize winning Planck satellite cosmologist George Efstathiou digs deep into the data producing a map of all the matter in our observable Universe (WOW!) …but questions the Universe expansion rate. New physics coming?Sweden’s Feb 2014 Linnean Prize winning evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk inveighs against  “paleo-nostalgia” —the notion that we were all better off before agriculture, or civilization, or the Industrial Revolution. There has been no point in our past when we were perfectly adapted to our environment. No perfect past diet, energy, lifestyle, climate, ecosystem ever existed. We have already evolved away (new lactose persistent genes) from our past and are molding ourselves to our world as it changes again. 
 
Our Pleistobrains are now being adapted to our 21stC globalising world through mind tools such as critical thinking. Just like the 3Rs (reading, writing & arithmetic) the 4th R (reasoning) is spreading up through the generations now leaving us less gullible, deceived & deluded by today’s primal scares. Let’s dig in to that! 🙂   
Paleofactasizing Brady

Best Year Ever Again

Happy Hominans,  
Well well well, we’ve won once again  🙂   
 
               
“By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives.” Food access is up: “The USDA is now projecting world record harvests [again] for corn, wheat, and rice for 2013/2014.” growing 30% faster than population, trebling since 1960. Great!

Even in sub-Saharan  Africa life spans are up to 57 years and schooling up to 75%. World poverty is down over 80% in 40 years. Global income is equalising thanks to the new middle classes of the emerging economies.  Global economic growth is accelerating 800%exponentially while population grew by 300%.
      
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This calls for a  song. A hug-your-hominans song!  Still the One  
   
We’ve been together since way back when, Sometimes I never want to see you again, I want you to know, after all these years, you’re still the one I want whisperin in my ear, You’re still the one — who can scratch my itch, Still the one — and I wouldn’t switch,
We’re still having fun, and you’re still the one.  
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🙂 Europe abandons its climate-CO2 policies & cuts out wind and solar subsidies amidst rocketing energy costs, plummeting economies and massive job losses. Global warming Prof Turney disobeys his captain and gets 51 enviro-tourists and Media stuck in record high Antarctic ice while searching for no ice – 4 fossil fueled rescue ships called in 🙂
Three skeptics make UK Energy & Climate politicians look like clever dugongs. So many scientists sold their skeptical souls for grants & groupthink, fame & fortune. What a waste.
    
Elsewhere, the Gaia space probe is now detail-mapping 1/3 of our Galaxy, like Columbus bringing home a satillite map of both Americas, instead of his Carribean scrawl. Wow!         Also, our democracy and civilisation attains new heights driven by ordinary individuals’ choices not ideologies “… monogamy reduces crime rates, including rape, murder, assault, robbery and fraud, as well as decreasing personal abuses . . . increases savings, child investment and economic productivity.” More opportunities for meritorious monogamy!
    
Our “But, but, but …” misguided missing-evidence Malthusian pessimists continue their contiguous 5000 year long losing streak. Just a bit of bad luck Boys? From the hominan heavens to our human hearts … 2014 should make us even better, and be exciting too.  🙂
Reasonably Optimistic Brady

Christmas Elves

Earth Wind Map: entrancing, ephemeral, mesmerising, hypnotic, wonderful. Lone Java Script learner Cameron Beccario in Japan beats hands down Big Gov NCEP & NOAA with their dull monocrome US only try. Lesson learned? –more Bottom Up not Top Down
     
Comet ISON defied scientist’s doom predictions (sound familiar?) and survived it’s solar close shave. NASA “finds” water fountains erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa one week after US Congress cuts their Europa space probe. Hmm … But Europe’s ESA Europa probe goes ahead. Politicized space science anyone? 🙂
  
The BMJ shows bicycle helmets are more about fear & fashion, profit & power & public pressure than safety & science. Interesting. Bicycle helmeteers : Dutch 0.1%, Sweden 15%; US 38% & Australia is … banning biking 😉 “World agricultural output continues to rise, despite predictions of decline“. Good! Another pretense of knowledge by our Malthusians.
                        
Big Medicine are now being shamed into releasing their own drug trial results to relieve their patients’ “avoidable suffering & death“. Big Enviros hightest paid man US EPA’s John Beale is jailed for $1 million in fraud. UK Big “New” Energy & EU Big Gov team up to increase energy poverty & excess winter deaths – “Where the corruption and personal enrichment ends and mere incompetence begins is hard to ascertain …”
“When did we let evil become stronger than us?” Tauriel, more critical thinking can help. Banishing cherry-picked data and logical fallacies will drive these parasite-like orc packs from our 21stC elvish-becoming globalising lands.
     
So, lets get mapping the electrical circuits of our ape brain Connectome, seeing how these “evils” can be controlled & so produce even more elf-like wonders in humans & our world. 
Hobbit too Brady 🙂

Alien Thinking

Whodathunk? Not many it seems.
  Optimistic facts (about nutrition, health, education etc.) are not trendy thoughts, nor Media money makers. Swedish statistics display innovator Hans Rosling shows beautifully how the poor are getting richer faster than the rich in all countries in greater numbers 🙂
   
Testing also shows that we Westerners now know less about basic world facts than random banana snatching chimps. He blames The Media, I blame our ape-made brains. 40 years of Food Advice fibs flood the nutrition world. Now food advice skepticism is growing. Good!     
Typhoon Haiyan vs The Media – Typhoon says: busiest season 1964, not 2013; Catagory 4 storm, not 5; landfall wind speeds 235 kmph, not 235 mph; mortality 1774, not 10 000; natural, not globally warmed. The Media says the opposite. Groan, again.   
      
UK, Japan & Australia drop The Green, with Canada applauding on. Trend lines anyone? Science is not the enemy. Getting risks right & checking scientific claims is a must. An even better world will be based on skeptical-tested evidence & reason, not on ideology (-ists). 
         

NASAs Kepler exoplanet searching satellite is now defunct but its researchers boldly make assumptions where no man has dared before. They posit non-boring life among 40 billion Earthy worlds, some just 12 light years away, modelled on only 10 candidates, based on no  Earth orbit-like Earths surveyed! But hey, let’s be constructive 😉 and not be strangers in our own land, so we can tell about our terrific terrestrial truths, when we meet “them”.
Alien fact loving Brady

Toxic Tonics

The Scientific Method, a healing brew to most sciences, a debilitating poison to some. Good.
 
Galaxy z8_GND_5296 is now the farthest, at confirmed redshift 7.51 or 13.1 billion years ago, only 700 million years after the Big Bang. However, the Dark Matter that made the galaxies has not been found … yet, by the 20x more sensitive LUX experiment. Keep on looking! Conversely, The Economist bravely battles to clean up “dirty” science, showing how up to 80% of the “soft” sciences (blue squares) can be wrong (dark blue). Oh dear. 
             
The Global Warming hypothesis fails more testing as evidence against the UNs IPCC CO2 cools out below all predictions. But not to worry, the UN has also just appointed a 26 strong PC-spread UNESCO board of catastrophe friendly politicised scientists (incl. IPCCs head -Pauchari) to provide “up-to-date and rigorous science” to “influence” politicians. Groan.
     
Also, we’re-saving-the-world Greenpeace’s slow & clipped video contradicts the Russian coastguard’s full version of these CO2-driven “Arctic-30 hooligans” in action. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive -Marmion -Walter Scott (1808)
 Time for a song: Stray Cats – Runaway Boys (1981) … for our Lost Boys of Science 🙂
   
Good science requires conscious control. What’s that? Well, consciousness is, suggests neuroscience evidence, the central thalmus neurone loops, activating the whole cortex, through richly connected neurone nodes. Scientific control comes through slavish addiction to the scientific method and logical argumentation. These are toxic tonics to fantasy world views, but also make our world even better daily … good enough to enjoy & ponder together our Universe’s edges under some starlit greenery.
Consciously Contemplating Brady

Atomly Active

Factual Fanatics,
242 movie stills of 1 nanometer distant oxygen atoms in 65 carbon monoxide molecules on a copper atom base at a 5K temp makes the “coolest” active atom application ever 🙂   

     
Reducing 1 bit from 1 million atoms down to 12 in an iron (Fe) magnet, brings quantum computing benefits (storing all the world’s movies on your iPhone) much closer. WOW!
  
If skeptics say “black!” but 97% of climate scientists (& politicians & Media & Enviros) see red, then, is this a problem? 🙂 Observations are now decoupled below all climate models. Sir David (smiling) gets his human population “plague” backwards with our numbers and “peak farmland” in decline as food yields, species & wildernesses increase. Oh dear David.
         
Is that just peaking oxygen in your brain or are you happy to see me? Neuroscientists seduced by flashy colours or a scintilating new technology solving millennia old dilemmas?

Finally, hydrogen atoms never looked so gorgeous as from Cape Palliser, New Zealand clinching 2013s best astrophoto of our Galaxy’s center, 26000 light years distant.
Fascinated Atomic Factist Activist Brady 🙂

Proactionary Thriving

Sharp See-ers,
MagAO now splits the 4 beautiful Trapezium stars, near Orion’s Belt, more sharply than ever before. Seeing more clearly has real world applications too. Let’s also try some new  Adaptive Optics of our own to “overcome atmospheric turbulence, which plagues Earth based” politicized science today. So, looking sharply through The Media “hot air” we see …
        
Out with the certainty-chaining precautionary, IN with the Proactionary Principle: which  “valorizes calculated risk-taking as essential to human progress”, our species’ defining activity. Forget sustainable (& survivable & resilience), IN with 2-steps-ahead Thrivable, producing a working world + an Antifragile one with “joy, delight and awe“.        
So, what’s up? Arctic ice is UP 73% (green) & Antarctic ice is again at record highs. The world cools & the new UN climate report (IPCC AR5) is condemned, again and again. Europe pulls the Green plug on renewables: a bad idea(ology), best forgotten?    
                         
Our human created abundant resources are even less needed as our globalizing civilization now dematerializes. This all under a business-as-usual human drive for thriving progress, despite staunch & continued Enviro-warrior resistance. Humanity wins out again 🙂 

Behold then, this enigmatic wandering pale blue dot (as seen by future proactive starship explorers returning laden with warming hearts) our wonder home  – Earth.
Stellarly Proactionary Brady 🙂

Pondering the Permian

Timely thinkers,
   
Permian Lystrosaurus 250 million years ago dominated Pangaean life, adapting with the biosphere & atmosphere, as the consensus of continents broke up into a flourishing world. Is this happening today as well, the Enlightened breaking up of the “scientific consensus”?  
    Well, today’s Solar Cycle 24 is missing the predicted Twin Peaks and is Falling rapidly, Rockin’ Back to zero. So, will our Spinning World  cool even more with SC25? Permian CO2 sensitivity was only 0.8C & now Permian Basins provide booming energy. Future famines are fading fast as population projections peak now at 8 billion amazing humans.
       
And so, thoughtful thinkers are turning to constructive criticisms of the current contiguous catastrophies consensus. Lets make even more Mind Tools, adapting our supercontinent-storage-sized fear-biased ape-brains to our fantastic 21stC world … and beyond 🙂
    
Permanently Pondering Brady