Sunday, May 17, 2020

Cosmos: A Spacetime Travesty

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Watching this on DVD with the captions on allowed me to identify an array of failures of science, reason, and fact.  The curtain opened...
Friday, May 1, 2020

Females and Women

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Recounting Barbara Gregory’s long and successful career at the American Numismatic Association, the organization’s own press releases were ...
Monday, April 27, 2020

My Numismatic Bibliography (Partial List)

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Much can be learned from examinating, comparing, contrasting. sorting, and arranging. It is said that Mendeleev established the periodic tab...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Mistakes Happen: VAM Varieties (U.S. Silver Dollars According to Van Allen and Mallis)

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This is why coin collectors want electron microscopes. You see, the Mint was forced to strike millions of these, just to consume silver. Th...
Monday, April 13, 2020

M44 Beehive Cluster First Sighting

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As with the Andromeda Galaxy, I was pleasantly surprised and a little crestfallen to discover how easy it was to sight, given that I had nev...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

No One Needs a Computer in Their Home

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“No one needs a computer in their home.” -- Ken Olsen, 1977. What is really funny about that is the way Snopes debunked it back in 2004. ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

NYC Covid-19 and Conservative Business Interests

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“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the pub...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

A Socratic Mob

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Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. -- The Federalist No. 55 Another gener...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Toxic Leadership

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“You’re fired!” Pres. Donald Trump not only cannot get along with the people he hires, he denies them afterward. He called Gen. Jim Mattis ...