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PlotBot: Year 3 Review

Once again, life got in the way of Steemit.  My wife had a heart attack in February, and that put quite a damper on blogging.  Most of the difficulty ...

Hybrid Forecasting -- the Legal Stuff

This is the consent form I had to sign to enter the study on hybrid forecasting, which I originally described here.  Note that they do not promise to prote...

Crowdsourced metadata via cryptocurrency

I've been reading this book:  [image link] A full review will have to wait, but the essence of the book is that markets run on information.  Important...

In MY day ...

We didn't have school shootings.  We had bomb threats, and we liked it that way.   [image link to nbc.com] I'm not kidding, either.  Several time...

Capital Connects 2018 [contest]

This 15-year old business pitch competition is probably the oldest one in the Triad.  According to WRAL's TechWire. Capital Connects provides education opp...

Hybrid Forecasting of GeoPolitical Events

This is a project by IARPA (like DARPA but for the intelligence community) where they are attempting to combine crowdsourcing with machine learning. https://www...

March for Science Triad fundraising series

"In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered together in the largest event for science advocacy in history.  In 2018, we unite again to...

Our aging election infrastructure

I'm helping to organize our local March for Science (in fact later this week I'm going to launch a Steemit fundraising page for that nonpartisan event).  Y...

Trek-nicolor

I grew up with a black and white television set, so I was completely oblivious to that famous switch in The Wizard of Oz between sepia Kansas and the Technicolo...

What if high schoolers could VOTE?

After this post on the minor moral panic at my kid's school a couple days ago, I noticed this action being planned. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/2018/0...

While I was not looking, 400+ followers

There's no cute numerical graphic to go with this post, as seems to be traditional on Steemit.  I was not paying attention today, because I was too busy wi...

Technological Humanism with Dan Hon

This is one of the best essays I've read recently, especially in the wake of yet another mass shooting.  It's based on a lightning talk from one of the Fri...

"Four Twats in a Forest" -- a quick review of The Ritual

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned having re-read Iron John: a Book about Men.  Today, a pair of what Jung would call synchronicities: I happened across thi...

The Cult of Alien Gods [review]

On our way home from a trip to Boston last summer, we stopped in Providence, Rhode Island, the former home of one Howard Philips Lovecraft.  Now that his l...

Thank You Science Podcast, episode #1

I was at a business networking event last night when I met two of the people hosting this podcast.  My wife assumed the title is a pun on "Thank you Jesus,...

Newbie Resteem Initiative Conspiracy Theory Writing Contest. Guaranteed Up Vote And Resteem For Newbies Entries!

Right, so one thing that is quite common place in the blogging world is conspiracy theories. Now these can be immense fun to read through, and even more fun to ...

The Writers' Block Sci-Fi Contest WINNERS!

https://steemitimages.com/DQmTKXy1gsQVfzpfSmYvWHc1DwLgdAy1amXN9cMqRGCJe5T/image.png source At last, we’ve made a decision. It wasn’t easy. These were, by far, s...

Kialo, a social tool for argument mapping

Argument mapping is a way of laying out complex arguments spatially, allowing us to leverage our advanced primate visual systems to help us with logical reasoni...

My Asheville Tick-sperience

During the second weekend of my hypnosis course, the weather was a lot nicer.   [image link] A fossilized tick in amber from the Dominican Republic, s...

Hive Post Deleted - I No Longer Support This Blockchain

Hive Post Deleted - I No Longer Support This Blockchain...