David F ⁽²⁰³¹⁾

The governors of 31 states (as of this writing) have declared -- with dubious legal authority -- that their states are closed to refugees from Da'esh-controlled areas. Perhaps this handy diagram will help them understand why they are no more at risk accepting a few thousand…

Fantastic article in Nature on how cognitive bias damages the work of scientists, and how scientists are trying to fight back against it. The funny thing I noticed about these is how religious apologists work the exact opposite way. They celebrate these faults in thinking, among others,…

Da'esh is what we have been calling ISIS or ISIL, but here's a rundown of why Da'esh is a much better term for them. Their goals include establishing a worldwide Caliphate, an Islamic state governed (in Da'esh's model) according to the most primitive and brutal…

A little behind on my TiVo, I just got around to seeing this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaW7cOJUt1A Now where have I heard... or read... or written something like this? Ah yes, six months ago.

There has been a lot of discussion in the Ingress community since the introduction of the Fracker (see New Items) around the interplay of fracked portals and glyph-hacking. Now personally, I dislike glyph-hacking, not least because it requires such absolute focus from the agent that it forces…