Sunspots 808

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

Christianity: Robert Hawes has posted excerpts from a forthcoming book (I think). Here is his discussion about the flood of Genesis. It's thorough, and presents some interesting ideas, for sure.

Computing: Gizmo's Freeware describes web sites that identify fonts that you don't have, but may want to use.

Gizmo's Freeware also considers web sites or apps that add color to grayscale photos.

Environment: Gizmodo reports that climate change appears to have caused an increase in the number of winter drownings.

Health: (and politics, unfortunately) NPR compares two rural states with Republican governors. Their different responses to COVID, and the results, tell a dramatic story.

Politics: FiveThirtyEight analyzes post-election trust, and finds that a lot of Republicans do not believe the election was conducted fairly.

The same source compares the common right-wing belief that Trump won the election to the belief, birtherism, that President Obama was not a natural-born citizen. That belief hasn't really died, even though Trump, himself, eventually repudiated it.

Science: I'm guessing that you have never heard of the African crested rat. I hadn't. But it exists, and it's strange.

Gizmodo asks experts about the biggest scientific fraud of the last 50 years. They came up with two such frauds, serious ones.

Gizmodo also discusses the Arecibo radio telescope, in Puerto Rico, which has been demolished after over 50 years of doing good science.

The graphic used in these posts is from NASA, hence, it is free to use like this.

Thanks for looking!