Home » Posts tagged 'ugo bardi' (Page 3)

Tag Archives: ugo bardi

When Science Speaks in Tongues: The Unstoppable Rise of Gibberish

November 13, 2021

When Science Speaks in Tongues: The Unstoppable Rise of Gibberish I have no objections to the idea that God (or the Goddess) can speak to people. And maybe the Lord really spoke to the apostles the day of Pentecost. But if you plan to fool other people, then “speaking in tongues” (known also as “glossolalia” […]

Continue Reading →

The Coming Age of Illiteracy: What Future for Science?

November 9, 2021

The Coming Age of Illiteracy: What Future for Science? One of the 16th century reliefs still existing at the monastery of “San Vivaldo,” in Tuscany. It is an early example of a purely image-based communication: an attempt to tell complex concepts, the stories of the gospels, to people who couldn’t read conventional text. It was a failure, but it […]

Continue Reading →

The Propaganda Trap: How to get out of it?

November 5, 2021

The Propaganda Trap: How to get out of it? You probably saw the Hitler clip from the 2004 movie “Downfall.” And you may have noticed the detail of Hitler’s left hand trembling out of control. It is based on historical data: Hitler’s hand was really trembling in that way, a typical symptom of Parkinson’s disease. And he […]

Continue Reading →

The Great Dying: Ireland as a Distant Mirror

October 30, 2021

The Great Dying: Ireland as a Distant Mirror After a series of six posts on the “age of exterminations” (one, two, three, four, five, and six) I wrote that I was moving to different subjects. But then I stumbled into this video on the Irish famine of mid 19th century. It is so fascinating (in a certain sense) that […]

Continue Reading →

The Age of Exterminations (V): Suicide as a Weapon of Mass Destruction

October 23, 2021

The Age of Exterminations (V): Suicide as a Weapon of Mass Destruction Regina Lisso, 21 years old German girl, photographed in 1945 after killing herself by ingesting a cyanide capsule. She was unlucky enough to find herself in the crosshairs of a major propaganda effort where the Allied and the German governments collaborated to convince Germans […]

Continue Reading →

The New Paradigm of Renewables: if we want something to change, we need to change something

October 15, 2021

The New Paradigm of Renewables: if we want something to change, we need to change something We can make it: the latest results of the analysis of the performance of renewable energy, photovoltaic and wind, show that their efficiency in terms of energy return on investment (EROI) is considerably larger than that of fossil fuels. […]

Continue Reading →

The Age of Exterminations (IV). How to Kill the Rich

October 12, 2021

The Age of Exterminations (IV). How to Kill the Rich In our times, the Knight Templars have gained the fame of exceptionally good warriors. That may be more than a little exaggerated because when the time came to defend their leaders, arrested by the King of France, they vanished into thin air. Yet, the history […]

Continue Reading →

The Age of Exterminations (III). Why you Should be Worried. Very Worried

October 4, 2021

The Age of Exterminations (III). Why you Should be Worried. Very Worried Disclaimer. I am no prophet and I have no crystal ball. I am just trying to find patterns in history. And I think many historical events can be explained simply on the basis of the tendency of people to try to make money […]

Continue Reading →

Ilaria Perissi explains why mousetraps are like oil wells and why the mousetrap experiment describes the Hubbert curve of oil extraction

September 28, 2021

Ilaria Perissi explains why mousetraps are like oil wells and why the mousetrap experiment describes the Hubbert curve of oil extraction https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP85oId2rjjNujQlqY4GM44Hjuu9_WWmiFmg24wfx4pL8vT3_pYdyy3Utl-0x1kJw/photo/AF1QipOwGJoFJG-J8mDS4k9265aJQSXzW9iRGFQQQeWf?key=aVJ5V25GSkFLZ0g3dHFrSG1lUFJpTzdVQ0l5Q0FB

Continue Reading →

The Age Of Exterminations (II) — How to Exterminate the Young

September 28, 2021

The Age Of Exterminations (II) — How to Exterminate the Young In 2018, I published a book titled The Shadow Line of Memory.” It was the biography of an Italian intellectual, Armando Vacca, who did his best to fight for peace at the beginning of the Great War. He was eventually defeated and punished by being sent […]

Continue Reading →

Why did the Taliban Win? Lessons From Ancient History

September 22, 2021

Why did the Taliban Win? Lessons From Ancient History How did the Taliban manage to defeat the most powerful army in the world? One word: corruption. It is not new, it has already happened in many other cases in history. Here, I propose a comparison of the recent Taliban campaign with the case of the Numidian wars […]

Continue Reading →

The IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Something Went Badly Wrong with the Environmental Movement

September 18, 2021

The IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. Something Went Badly Wrong with the Environmental Movement Performers from Hawai’i at the 2021 IUCN Congress in Marseille. I am not sure of what sense did it make to come by plane all the way from Hawai’i to Europe to discuss how to reduce carbon emissions. But I […]

Continue Reading →

9/11, the Coup that Failed. The Role of the Memesphere

September 11, 2021

9/11, the Coup that Failed. The Role of the Memesphere Octavianus Augustus Caesar (63 BC – 14 AD). Perhaps the most successful leader in history, he didn’t just become the absolute ruler of the Roman State, but took over the role of the highest religious authority (the “Pontifex Maximum”) and transformed himself into a living […]

Continue Reading →

The Age of Exterminations: Who Will be Next Victims?

September 7, 2021

The Age of Exterminations: Who Will be Next Victims? Detail from the book, “England’s grievance discovered…” by Ralph Gardiner, 1655. Note, on the right, the scene described in the text as, “Witchfinder takes his money for his work.” The book was written when the witch-hunting age was already in decline and it emphasized how killing witches […]

Continue Reading →

Climate Change: What is the Worst that can Happen?

August 23, 2021

Climate Change: What is the Worst that can Happen? A Brontotherium, a creature similar to modern rhinos that lived up to some 35 million years ago in a climate that was about 10 degrees centigrade hotter than ours. In this scene, we see a grassy plain, but Earth was mostly forested. We may be moving […]

Continue Reading →