Welcome

Posted on March 11, 2010 by admin

Welcome to the Retread Resources Blog.

Thanks As I Found It for the header image.

You are invited to visit our sister sites  As I Found It & Ideal Totem, see and purchase some awesome photographs and the new DIE.

Ideal Totem & As I Found It both had image galleries featuring geological and earths science related stock images. 
In addition you are invited to Read As I Found It's blog shared with Ideal Totem for informative and cogent essays about photograph as well as the art and science of seeing that art.

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Human Predicament & Models One

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

Now that I have your attention and you have been enticed to read this far I must explain I do not have any solutions to offer and I am not selling any new or recycled old ideas for humanities salvation.  If that is not to your liking stop reading and find someone else’s blog to occupy your time with. Continue reading →

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Dark Matter

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

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Real Measurements, Models & Crocodilians

Posted on March 31, 2012 by admin

 

 

 

 

 

 

In a new paper at PLoS:
Insights into the Ecology and Evolutionary Success of Crocodilians Revealed through Bite-Force and Tooth-Pressure Experimentation, G. Erickson et al. Continue reading →

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Universe’s Scale

Posted on March 13, 2012 by admin

In the previous essay “I know This Much” we examine what we know and do not know about the natural world.  Cary and Michael Huang AKA the Huang Twins, have taken a more universal view of what we know about scale.  In done that, I for one want to lionize them.  In 2010 they published The Scale of the Universe an interactive presentation that illustrates universe at different scales.  Their newest interactive is The Scale of the Universe 2 I can not say enough about this new interactive. Their work speaks for itself and far more eloquently then I am capable of.  It is simply awesome and when a gray hair like me uses awesome, you know how special I think it is. Continue reading →

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“I Know This Much”

Posted on March 8, 2012 by admin

This is Essay number 154.  This Blog is now 2 years old.  Of those 154 entries about 148 of them have been I hope cogent essays.  All 148 are essays the others are editorials and announcements.  That averages about 6 a month.  I had and still do aspire to a post average between 3 and 4 essays/month.  That is about all my brain can handle and I suspect all any, even the most dedicated reader, wants to handle.

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Ends, Means and Justification or Not

Posted on February 21, 2012 by admin

Updated Feb. 25….. Dr. Gleick and the group of unreliable reporters, known as the the main stream media (MSM), have done it again. What did they do?  They simply manufactured information to imply that someone with different views was some how evil or bad.  Manufacturing news or information is lying.  Repeating that lie without checking its voracity is both lying and negligent.  While organized religion may pay lip service to honest an open information  exchange, science does not exist with it.

We all know from life experience and reading many of the other essays here that this behaviour has a long and well documented history.  I don’t think it hyperbolae to say, going right back to the founding of societies.  Continue reading →

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Little Ice Age Kick Start

Posted on February 4, 2012 by admin

Given that it lasted for more then 500 years kick start is probably an oversimplification.  I know but it got your attention didn’t it?  “Launching the Little Ice Age,” is how Bob McDonald, host of Quirks & Quarks put it.  “The Little Ice Age put Europe in a deep freeze for hundreds of years, up until the early 19th century.  However, researchers have never agreed on the cause and the exact time of onset for this long cooling trend in the Northern Hemisphere.” (Get the mp3 here) Continue reading →

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New Burgess Fossils

Posted on January 20, 2012 by admin

A New Stalked Filter-Feeder from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada,  Lorna J. O’Brien, Jean-Bernard Caron Continue reading →

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Pseudoscience One Revisited

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin

Dough Hoffman at The Resilient Earth writes: “Editorials in Nature and Science herald the resurgence of the climate catastrophists and their attempt to bamboozle the public, mislead government officials and brainwash our children. Continue reading →

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Top Science Story of 2011

Posted on January 1, 2012 by admin

From my point of view, the announcement of Superluminal Neutrinos, those are neutrinos that go faster then the speed of light having been detected, has got to be the science story of the year. That year is 2011.  The announcement makes this status, in my book anyway, because, if confirmed will shake up physics and if not confirmed or shown to be in error, illustrates how science is and should be done.  That is ultimately what this essay series is all about. Continue reading →

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