The Past is Present And Here We Are

Political Kayfabe - Italy, US and Canada

The concept of "kayfabe," originating from the theatrical world of professional wrestling, offers a surprisingly potent heuristic for political analysis. It is an analytical tool for dissecting the often-paradoxical relationship between the public performance of political antagonism and the private reality of elite cooperation.

Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Inauguration

The second most controversial Presidential Inaugural in American History

Why does Hot Water clean better than Cold Water?

The principle that hot water cleans more effectively than cold water is a piece of universally accepted wisdom, applied daily in households and industries worldwide. The efficacy of hot water is not a singular effect but the result of a cascade of interconnected mechanisms, each contributing to its power as a cleaning agent.

on the Physical and Mathematical Theories of Miles Mathis

The intellectual engine driving Mathis's entire body of work is a rigid philosophical commitment to what can be termed mechanical realism. This worldview is a profound and uncompromising rejection of the foundational principles of 20th-century physics in favor of a return to a more intuitive, clockwork model of the universe.

Beyond Before and After - Proving Cause and Effect in the Real World

 When assessing the impact of an event such as the closure of Swansea Mews on local crime, a simple comparison of crime rates before and after June 2022 is fundamentally inadequate and prone to erroneous conclusions. Such a naive approach fails to account for a host of confounding variables that can influence crime patterns.

The sticky Sunspot

how do Sunspots impact people

Wagons Wheels in Coal Beds: Ancient Anomalies

Exploring Ancient unexpected artifacts

Thomas Sowell: Iconoclast

Phosphate : Putting Rust to Sleep

Phosphating is the way we protect metal. This is its story.

The Value of Others

This is a discussion of the Value of Others. Orion Taraban, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice and the creator of PsycHacks, a popular podcast devoted to relationships and personal development.