Monday, July 25, 2022

Awakening of a sort...

 Real science does have censorship, bias and gate keepers.  Sadly this is a reality  much of it driven by political dogma that can be simply, agenda driven propaganda spun around weak arguments proffered by "experts" usually with PhD's.  Almost always, a large grant associated profit motive or an institutionalized group think is involved. Most people have blindly accepted the word of the expert and scholar as a sort of rigorously tested gold standard.  LOL... Well not any more, and that's a very good thing.  We just may evolve from this era being a little wiser.  Question everything - Euripides, and Albert Einstein.  When the answer received back is a castigation, censorship or an attack you know you are not in a scientific debate.  You are debating dogma.  A belief system that eschews data driven facts.  Easy to spot!

I'm pleased to see small rays of light appearing within the academic cloister.

Let us not stare incredulously at the recent past, but move forward.  Perhaps the orchestrated methods of so many governments were doomed to result in distrust, ranker and frustration.  Most people do not appreciate being duped, so - a likely outcome. Especially when formerly trusted institutions and professionals were so ea$ily co-opted.  I cannot wait to see what's next, as the real underlying issues will not be going away!

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Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Return to the Black River

I am always happy to spend some time on the North Country Trail.  Yesterday we hiked in to see some of the falls on the Black River on the Northern shore of Michigan's Western Upper Peninsula.  This river empties out into Lake Superior  whose shoreline was foggy and a brisk 53 F while inland on the trail it was a comfortable sunny 73 F. The temperature gradient is common for this zone because of its proximity to a very large body of water that acts as a thermal sink.  The weather on the shore and near inland is unique and in the winter can develop enormous snow accumulations... hard to imagine unless you have lived here! 

 

This is a map of the trail...

 

Zooming out, this is the North Country Trail section


A mix of broad leaf and conifers, a healthy temperate mixed forest surrounds

Just after a rain, the under story was a beautiful green

Nature's version of fast food for the Pileated Woodpecker





Typical of the flows on the river this summer... beautiful to experience.


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