@planetary-paul.bsky.social
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The BBC is in crisis. President Trump and Nigel Farage are very happy. On its face, it's a self-own by a corporation that fell short of its own rules on impartiality. But scratch the surface, and there's a whole populist war on truth that's going on.
10.11.2025 22:07 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
When my cartoons become reality. #chicago
10.11.2025 17:36 — 👍 2774 🔁 918 💬 62 📌 38Most unfortunate indeed.....
08.11.2025 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Telepathy our Lost Sense: Neuroscience sheds Light on ESP, by Dianne Cartwright, reviewed on the SPR website by Gregory M. Westlake: www.spr.ac.uk/Telepathyour...
07.11.2025 12:50 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Ben Meiselas wonders whether he is hallucinating or not:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNJ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene turns against Donald Trump for good in public.
06.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 5276 🔁 2259 💬 89 📌 111
Second term presidents find themselves becoming a 'lame duck' relatively early - but Trump's operations was supposed to break the mould. The authoritarian drift meant 'business-as-usual' rules don't apply. And yet, after the events of this week, it just seems possible that business-as-usual is back.
06.11.2025 21:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Mitch Horowitz: "The difficulty of determining what is true" / There exists one direct exchange between parapsychology pioneer J.B. Rhine and pseudo-skeptic James Randi. It says it all.
03.11.2025 03:46 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
02.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
I'm not so sure we're out of the woods. The Dutch fascist parties still are prominent. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would support politicians who have never achieved anything but division and hate, but here we are. Maybe a centrist government is possible, but we'll have to see.
03.11.2025 22:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I had a nice conversation with Alex O'Connor:
youtu.be/DrMEL20o5KE?...
BlueSky just crossed 40 million users. Cool :-)
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In Psychology Today:
The Telepathy Tapes did something: it made us uncomfortable. It’s forced scientists, clinicians, and the public alike to confront how quickly skepticism can turn into dismissal—and how easily dogma can hide behind the banner of reason.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyo...
Here is another WWII story that holds a lesson (layed out at the end) that all should heed but rarely do:
How Teenage Girls With Chalk Beat Nazi U-Boats (The Admirals Didn't Believe It)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa_H...
Interesting WWII story:
The Radar Man Who Heard Shapes: One Technician’s “Impossible” Ear That Outsmarted U-Boats
A comparable pattern recognition ability plays a role in "The Hunt For Red October".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7z...
Dan Piraro has a funny cartoon up at Medium:
medium.com/the-springbo...
www.bizarro.com/blog
🎯
17.10.2025 05:33 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Is the mystery of Saturn's rings finally being resolved, after 400 years? It looks like it:
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
In 2000 years the Zodiac signs have shifted, due to the Earth's precession. The New York Times has a very nice web page on the subject.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Most people think that the sun and stars, the rivers and trees are what is 'out there.' @bernardokastrup.bsky.social contends that this is impossible - our experience is a dashboard about reality, not a window onto it. Summary of this conversation is here:
www.withrealityinmind.com/recording-th...
It seems a long way off, but if pro-democracy forces in the US should learn anything from Trump's Project 2025, it's that it pays to have spent the time working out what needs to be done, and how to go about doing it. Let's discuss.
12.10.2025 21:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
What if the first primates didn’t evolve in the tropics
But in a cold snap?
After a massive heat wave 56 million years ago, Earth over-cooled, forests vanished, and only the adaptable survived.
That struggle gave rise to us.
🌍 Watch the story →
🧪 #SciComm
youtube.com/shorts/Nvs1t...
A gentle warning from Carl Sagan
06.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 255 🔁 96 💬 6 📌 3
Trump's NASA gutting is underway.....
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Aristotle had one of the first important scientific theories and was the one who found out the world is round. www.discovermagazine.com/aristotle-di...
05.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The end of a very important era!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDpE...
