Can’t Pretend That Growing Older Never Hurts There was no show last week, because my brain was pretty much fried after a week of stress over my mom having some serious anxiety attacks. She ended up in the hospital and still hasn’t quite recovered. It’s been a challenge for Dad, me, my wife, and, ofContinue reading “dimland radio 8-15-20 show notes”
Category Archives: skepticism
dimland radio 8-1-20 show notes
Planes Crash A Lot I start the show making a couple clarifications to some of what I talked about last week. First I wanted to make sure that I explained the gotcha the YouTuber thought she had when she discovered the all 900 of the three-digit numbers come up in a Google search of newContinue reading “dimland radio 8-1-20 show notes”
dimland radio 7-18-20 show notes
Just Wear A Mask It’s become my mantra on social media lately. I keep seeing anti-mask nonsense being shared and my respond has been to simply write “just wear a mask” in the comments. There may be subtler, kinder, and more nuanced ways of influencing the anti-maskers, but I’m not sure those methods would workContinue reading “dimland radio 7-18-20 show notes”
look at how dumb they are
They are a staple of late night talk shows: The person on the street interviews. There are variations, of course, and a particularly popular variation is the dumb person on the street quiz. Featuring people who are too ignorant to correctly answer fairly simple and basic questions. Audiences lap them up. Jimmy Kimmel has doneContinue reading “look at how dumb they are”
dimland radio 6-20-20 show notes
Scrubbing Floors With Infectious Disease Experts I did not do a show last week due to the big scrub and wax job we do each year. This year I was fortunate enough to be able to work with three infectious disease experts. Yep, the three fellows’ years of experience not working in medical science hasContinue reading “dimland radio 6-20-20 show notes”