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The Baseball Theory

August 2, 2018 by Michael Dobson

If you are failing seven times out of ten, most of us would take that as nature’s way of suggesting a different career field. But for a major league baseball player, that’s a .300 batting average – millions of dollars in salary and endorsements, and a shot at the Hall of Fame. Most of us […]

Filed Under: Motivation Tagged With: Baseball Theory, creativity, failure, motivation

Making the Kessel Run in Under 12 Parsecs

August 2, 2018 by Michael Dobson

On the OPERA neutrino experiment, the conservative war on relativity, and the operation of science (with a nod to the biggest science boo-boo in Star Wars). One can understand, if not agree with, the conservative war on the Theory of Evolution. If you believe that a specific book must be taken literally, and that book […]

Filed Under: Science, Space and Technology Tagged With: anti-science, Einstein, OPERA experiment, relativity, science, theory of evolution

Traitors and Scoundrels

August 2, 2018 by Michael Dobson

What motivates this blog post is the quote from King George III above, which appeared on one of my Pinterest boards: Dobson’s Improbable Quote of the Day for June 4. It had a lot of resonance for me: while George III said it aloud, a lot of people — including me — feel that way, at least from time […]

Filed Under: History and Society Tagged With: argumentative fallacies, cognitive biases, King George III, politics

Have Spacesuit, Will Travel

August 2, 2018 by Michael Dobson

  “You see, I had this space suit. How it happened was this way.” Science fiction readers will instantly recognize the opening lines from Robert Heinlein’s 1958 Scribner juvenile novel, Have Spacesuit, Will Travel.  The narrator, small-town teenager Kip Russell, wins a used spacesuit as fourth prize in a soap jingle contest, setting off a chain […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Space and Technology Tagged With: Apollo 7, Mike Collins, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, spacesuit

You’re Not Being Reasonable!

August 2, 2018 by Michael Dobson

I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve gotten myself into way too many online arguments about politics and religion over the years (though I have gotten better), and I’m not happy with either my own behavior or others. All the cognitive biases (see my encyclopedia in Random Jottings 6) are on display, and hardly anyone actually […]

Filed Under: Bias, History and Society Tagged With: America, arguments, cognitive biases, logical fallacies, reasonableness, society

The Three Americas

June 25, 2018 by Michael Dobson

Abdul Aziz Al Saud, first monarch of Saudi Arabia, wanted his nation’s borders based not on geography, but on the migration of tribes. The British High Commissioner, Sir Percy Cox, lost his temper and started yelling, but Ibn Saud had a good point: a nation is not necessarily the same thing as a state. A […]

Filed Under: History and Society Tagged With: History, Three Americas

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