Go figure this out.
Let me know once you can make sense of it.
"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."
-Jonas Salk
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
me, Michael Tobis Ph.D., a.k.a. "mt"
The Best of "In It"
- Getting Things Backwards
- Childhood's End
- Nature Doesn't Need a Seat at the Table
- Quote Gallery
- My Point of View in a Nutshell
- Tobis's Tautology
- The Cruel Hoax
- The Lawnmower Problem
- Sunspots vs Global Temperature
- Climate Models- Is There a Better Way?
- Can Computation Solve Economics?
- The Opposite of Denialism
- Consequences for Getting It Wrong
- On Falsifying AGW
- How Loud to Squawk
- Getting Things Backwards
- Energy is Unbelievably Cheap
- Reply to Revkin
- Selling the Incomprehensible
- Nature is not a Budget Item
- Perpetuity Smaller in Texas
- Taking Lomborg Seriously
- The Missing Feedback
- Science Budget Talking Point
- Does My Prius Help?
- The First Meter
- B-Schools vs Scientists
- Climatological Culture
- The Mayor Feels My Pain
- Economists Overflow Bathtubs
- The Great Society
- Economists vs Engineers
- The Market for Lemons
- Is Climatology A Science?
- The Climate Science Budget
- Bambi vs Godzilla
- Why Truth is Losing Ground
Where the 4 Winds Dwell
- AGW Observer
- And Then There's Physics
- Brave New Climate
- Climate Abyss (Nielsen-Gammon)
- Climate SIght (Kate X)
- Covered in Bees
- Daily Climate
- Daily Dish
- Deltoid
- Empty
- Energy Collective, The
- Fleck
- Greenman (AKA CLimate Crock)
- Grist
- Grumbine
- Hale
- Hot Topic
- Ill Considered
- Krugman
- Long Now
- Maribo
- Planet 3.0
- Quark Soup
- Rabett Run
- RealClimate
- Resilience
- Samadhisoft
- Science of Doom
- Serendipity
- Stoat
- Tamino/Open Mind
- Texas Climate News
- Texas Observer
- The Other Onion
- Things Break
- Variable Variability
- Various Consequences
- Yale Forum
No Cattle and No Hat Either
me, Michael Tobis Ph.D., a.k.a. "mt"
Some biographical info is on
my home page
Blog Archive
-
▼
2011
(258)
-
▼
September
(28)
- Is Debt Conserved?
- Shoulda Toljaso
- Jaron Lanier and the Morita Principle
- The US Government Cannot Help the Climate
- Stealing Another Video from Think Progress
- Bill Clinton Gets it Right
- Book Review: A Planet for the President
- Flattery Gets You Somewhere
- Major Cuts to Environment Canada
- Democracy at Work
- Is There a Swarm Solution?
- Nielsen-Gammon vs the New Normal
- Texas Pics
- Daily Rainfall Record Exceeded By 60%
- Bastrop Fires Subside
- Another Anthropogenic Forcing
- More on Fires
- Lost Pines, Yesterday
- Not the Obligatory Spencer Post
- Approaching Bastrop Today
- "Lost Pines" Today vs 30 Months Ago
- Bastrop, Texas
- A Recent Comment About Lost Pines
- It's Not Your Father's Recession
- Foley says the same thing twice
- Disinfographics
- Editor Apologizes for Spencer Paper, Resigns
- Burden of Proof
-
▼
September
(28)
8 comments:
Facts don't matter apparently
Metaphors underlie all factual descriptions while stories frame them. Ancient peoples did not go underground at Lascaux, gather by fire light and in temples to hear facts recitated. They went because telling stories gives meaning and direction to human lives. (Fox) News Corporation understands this and provides reassuring stories which their viewers (and masters) crave.
what jay alt said
buKloorification of the media
Along the same lines as this video, it appears that Fox takes advantage of the "Dr. Fox" effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcxW6nrWwtc&feature=player_embedded
Sense is overrated
No more Fox "news" clips for me; I swore off on 'em long ago. They're worse than concussions. If I want to be sick I'll watch Red Sox highlights.
This is a game somewhat akin to driving faster than you can see in a thick fog; everything is fine until it isn't. You can't see the problem and what you want is to get wherever "there" is quickly. After a short period where nothing appears in front of you it's easy to assume the course will remain clear.
Which would be fine if the rest of us weren't forced to be passengers.
Post a Comment