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CO₂ Level Rise Near-Vertical Now; Warming Impossible to Prevent
by David Sims
EARTH HAS been radiatively unbalanced, absorbing more energy than it radiates into space, since the 1970s, with the oceans absorbing most of the excess heat. This trend will continue for a while, no matter what we do going forward. We can’t prevent global warming now; it is too late.…
A Tale of Two Races
by David Sims
THE IQ distribution of American Whites is 103±16.4, and that of US-resident Blacks is 85.0±12.4. The averages in those distributions comes from Rushton and Jensen (2005).¹ The standard deviations in the distributions comes from a 1963 study by Kennedy, Van De Riet, and White. See also…
When War is Morally Right
by David Sims
NATURE’S LAWS—most fundamentally the conservation of energy—make it unlikely that any living thing, humans included, can avoid competitions with other living things. It would be impossible, instead of merely unlikely, if humans didn’t have access to an abundance of…
A Deadline Approaches for Interplanetary Colonization
by David Sims
I HATE to throw a wet blanket on people’s hopes for human colonization on other planets and in space, especially since this was always a hope of mine, too. I don’t think that humans will ever colonize the rest of the solar system, much less reach for the stars. It’s after…
Dr. Pierce’s Essays from Free Speech Magazine Now in Ebook Formats
by David Sims
I HAVE CONVERTED Dr. Pierce’s essays from Free Speech magazine into an ebook collection, which is now available for free downloading via Google Drive. All of the articles are available in both .epub and .mobi formats.
I created these .epub and .mobi documents so that Dr. Pierce’s…
Truth and Knowledge
by David Sims
THERE IS A branch of philosophy called “epistemology.” An epistemology is a rationale by which someone claims to have knowledge, or to know truth. Epistemology isn’t what you believe to be true. It is, instead, how you justify your claims for knowing what the truth…
What “Protected Group” Really Means
by David Sims
A FEW YEARS ago, on 23 October 2007, Sarah Marshak (pictured) began creating a hoax of an antisemitic “hate crime” by drawing a swastika on the whiteboard mounted on the door of her dorm room and then reported it to the campus security police. On 27 October, another female dorm…
Debt and the Rapid Rise of the BRIC Nations
by David Sims
THE ECONOMIST online published an article about the desirability of getting the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) “on our side” — which expression is probably a circumlocution. What they might mean is that it would be desirable to ensnare those four…
The Laws of the Solar System Empire, by Imperial Decree
Lighthearted fantasy contains much worth thinking about
by David Sims
THE SOLAR SYSTEM EMPIRE (SSE or Empire) is an absolute imperial monarchy whose territories include all the space and all of the mass within 1000 astronomical units (1.496e14 meters) of the solar system barycenter, excluding…
The Battle Hymn of the Future Republic
Let’s start today with a rousing song!
by David Sims
THE BATTLE HYMN of the Republic was originally an American Christian-patriotic song composed shortly before the American Civil War, with words by Julia Ward Howe.
The new words, composed by myself, are sung to the same tune.
The “Fourteenth”…