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Even as a skeptic who sees argument from incredulity and magical thinking everywhere, there is one recurring coincidence in my life that has been going on for decades, which I consider utterly uncanny. I know it has to be just selection bias, and...

I assume this is one of those things that politicians do to act like they are doing something while knowing that it won't pass into actual law because it is absurd.

Much beyond that and a shotgun is less likely to be effective? No point in encouraging people to waste ammo...

If UFO reports have taught us one thing, it's that the ability to judge distances isn't most people's strong suit.

:) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gco1pnlJOg

I would like to see every activist and political influencer have to disclose their revenue streams. Kind of amazing that rando accounts can tweet 10x a day, get hundreds of thousands of engagements, and we have no idea what exactly is behind it.

Yesterday, Monday, January 19th was the Martin Luther King federal holiday in the US. A buddy and I were in an email exchange complaining about the weather. He said he'd spare me his "black ice" story. On MLK day, Monday Jan, 19, 2009 my wife and...

Arizona's Rogue Research & Recon Team travels north to Sedona They were going for "rogue" as an adjective meaning "outside of accepted norms and controls", but one might find the noun meaning of "an unscrupulous or unreliable person" fitting as...

That's the type of coincidence that would have got you burnt as a witch 333 years ago. (333 being both how long ago the 1693 Salem witch trials were, AND half of 666. What are the odds!)

Here is an attempt to see how the cloud cover looked like on the evening of Jan 24, 7pm local (ET), in the area. This is using the ERA5 reanalysis mentioned above, we retrieve the general cloud distribution seen on the satellite image (post...

What tends to be forgotten are the huge number of actions that people take, or a "feelings" had, that have no corresponding event to tie them to, so are not remembered for having any specific importance. These are of course what make up almost...

Growing up, my mother was always saying "I had a funny feeling X" where X = "someone would call" | "you would say that" | "that would happen" | "the doorbell was going to ring" etc. I remember my first "funny feeling" when I 'sensed' that not...

Synchronicity is also a function of observation. The more you sit back to observe, rather than focus on some immediate goal, the more you see that you can connect. New Age and esoteric practice is actually not too bad at teaching mindfulness...

:) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gco1pnlJOg

two people in your lab would break into song? or just you? i think it happens to everyone, but like contrails.. until someone points them out or something makes you specifically notice them you dont even notice they are there because you are...