The way forward: UFO-style
The issue of UFOs has been a thorny subject for decades, ever since they came to prominence during and after the Second World War. For a long time, the United States and its allies tried to persuade us that nothing was happening, that we weren’t being visited by aliens and anyone who thought we were was a foolish, delusional idiot. More recently, due to the proliferation of evidence supporting the existence of such exotic, highly advanced craft, particularly via material leaked from military witnesses, the approach of our Western […]
Update (August 2021) – This book has been replaced by the book ‘Minds Make the World’. After much drawing and typing, My new popular-science / philosophy book, Solving Reality, is available to buy from Amazon. There’s two editions of the paperback book; a 
Our ancient past is a lot odder than most people realise. I’ve written about strange facets of our ancient past in several articles on this site, including the 
Here’s a very good documentary about the Burning Man Festival that takes place every year in the Nevada Desert. I’ve become increasingly fascinated with the Burning Man Festival because it seems to be a fascinating expression of a group viewpoint, where a large number of people share a view of how they want to express themselves and what they think is important. I particularly enjoyed the fact, explained in the documentary, that everything is free at the festival apart from coffee (as far as I can remember). In addition, […]
Below is a very good video from Vox, explaining vaccine efficacy for Covid-19. The video shows how the efficacy value is certainly useful but it’s far from being the final say when deciding the effectiveness of a particular vaccine. This is because the efficacy value is highly dependent on when the clinical trial took place, and the incidence and strain of Covid-19 present at that time. If the trial took place when there was a high incidence of the disease, this will skew the values negatively for that vaccine, […]
An interesting video popped up on my YouTube recommended list today. The physics YouTube star 
One problem with investigating interesting topics, with an open mind, is that you inevitably end up in weird territory. You discover that the official description of what is true and reasonable, and what is false and ridiculous, doesn’t add up. The popular YouTube documentary-maker, Lemmino, seemed to stumble into this situation in his video documentary The Unknowns – Mystifying UFO cases, 
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Lemmino is a twenty-something Swedish guy who makes high-quality 
