“The television news is not very useful for understanding the world.” Factfulness by Hans Rosling One of my best Sunset shots of 2020. It really is about the foreground....Read More
A face mask baseball cap combination has a lot of a advantages. Your mask is on your hat so you won’t forget it, It is handy when you need it, It is virtue signaling made easy. Nurit and I had t...Read More
Endogenous Endogenous, adjective: Having an internal cause or origin. Antonym: Exogenous Example: “the expected rate of infection is endogenous to the system” Photo from what remains of an...Read More
I borrowed this image from a postcard on Postcrossing. The wording was originally borrowed from a British WWII poster and is now ubiquitous on social media and on postcards. Keep Calm and Carry On...Read More
“When we are afraid, we do not see clearly.” Factfulness by Hans Rosling Photo is of petroglyphs on South Mountain just off the Telegraph Pass Trail...Read More
Lot’s of us have been spending a lot more time at home since COVID-19 (How this name came to be) and many people are cleaning out their stuff. Which is good in its own right and it has created a...Read More
“Would I ever hear about children who don’t drown?” Hans Rosling in Factfulness In this quote Rosling is summing up how the news media get it wrong, not willfully, but because they focus on the ...Read More
“Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking.” Hans Rosling in Factfulness He goes on to point out that a lot of the world is not binary it is varied and seeing it as binar...Read More
It isn’t enough to sanitize, you also have to leave a physical sign that the area has been sanitized. Thank you Pedro! And so the pandemic response enters the “Security Theater” phas...Read More
“Witness the secret, silent miracle of human progress.” Hans Rosling in Factfulness When I hike alone I pick up some rocks as I walk along that as a group of five will make a simple Inukshuk. ...Read More