Random Thoughts

Weekend Science: The Physics Of Smoking A Pipe

If you're one of those cultural mullahs who thinks smoking causes lung cancer- even a cigar or a pipe- you can stop reading.  This article is not for you.   I have never smoked a cigarette in my life but gradual efforts by the modern temperance moveme ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2024 - 12:35pm

How To Be Emotionally Stable Without Getting Bored- The Musical!

Max Lugavere, founding producer and host for Current TV, the Emmy winning cable network started by Al Gore, started a column on Psychology Today and came up with this gem. (1) He writes that  he saw a piece by Nick Cox,  a writer living in Cambridge, MA, c ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2024 - 9:30am

Francis: Pope, Chemist

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been chosen as Pope Francis, leader of the Holy See in Rome. That's all well and good, it's nice that heavily-Catholic South America is getting its due and I found it interesting that a Jesuit chose to name hims ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 15 2024 - 6:10am

Interna

Summer is coming, and with it some more intense than usual travel for me. I actually started last month, when my path touched Rome, Athens, La Londe Les Maures (a small town on the south French riviera), and Athens again. Since being away from home means a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 21 2024 - 10:29am

Sexiest Vegan: PETA Objectifies Women Again

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is continuing its long-standing policy of defending dead animals by exploiting live human women. Well, clearly it works, since I am giving them free publicity by hammering on their lack of ethics in my ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2024 - 8:08am

On Black Swan Probability and Tail Obesity

For a long while now, having watched bubbles form and pop, I have found it frustrating how people pile into assets with straight line trajectories.  I first noticed it in the time of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.  During that time, as I recall, re ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 1:31pm

The Socialism Paradox

I find myself fascinated how similar people, with similar values, can feel so differently about social engineering.  This comes out in political discourse, and certainly is a hot topic today, with those more in favor of socialism, which I’ll refer to in t ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 1:33pm