I’ve spent a lot of time lately reviewing the details of what happened in Wuhan, back in 2019. One thing that struck me is just how much worse New York City got hit with the first wave of Covid, compared to Wuhan. Here’s a graph of excess deaths in each…

ChatGPT can draw and understand images. I’ve been trying out various tests to see what it understands and what it does not:

In another article, I expressed surprise that some people look for porn by simply typing “porn” into Google. I would have guessed they would type “pornhub”, or just press the ‘P’ key and let autocomplete do the rest. Porn is actually one of the most common things people type into…

Joe Biden is 81. If re-elected, he’ll be 82 on the first day of his second term and 86 on the last day. Biden’s first term started at 78. He was already older than any other president in history: Looking at an actuarial table, the odds Biden will live to…

Calling the pandemic over harms our ability to fight Covid, in a number of ways. — On May 11th, 2023, the Covid public health emergency ended in the United States. The pandemic was officially over. Biden, himself, has been calling the pandemic over since last September. This August, I hit a more personal milestone. …

A recent article in Quillette suggests that there’s a simple cure for alcoholism: we can just switch alcoholics onto other drugs. The drugs suggested in the article are called non-benzodiazepines anticonvulsants (NBACs). The author gives a specific list: Medications that fall into the NBACs category were developed in the 20th…

Bjorn Lomborg likes to argue that Carbon Dioxide is good for plants:

A leaded telephone cables scandal might have created a buying opportunity — I occasionally make stock market predictions here. Mostly I write about climate change, but it’s fun to sometimes make predictions on other things. For instance, some climate change deniers like to say that global warming is fake because climate scientists can’t predict the stock market:

Most of us are aware that the world is getting warmer. Most of us are also vaguely aware that the world was much colder in the past. The world has gone through ice ages. 20,000 years ago, all of Canada was covered in ice.