Saturday Learning Series - Fake News Exposed (indisputably and for real)

Taking a break this week from the recent Saturday Learning Series focus on geography to take a look at two recent scientific items in the news that are in all truth, fake news and clickbait.

Anton Petrov's "What Da Math" looks at these two instances of hyperbole and brilliantly puts some truth to them. Firstly let's look at the giant asteroid expected to destroy life on earth in 2023.

Here's the other fake science news being exposed. A gamma ray burst from Apep.

When you watch the media, always, ALWAYS question what they tell you.  They might be right, but there are facts, there are distortions, there are opinions and there is often hyperbole.  It's up to you to sift through what they say and discern for yourself what part is fact.  That's because they do not limit themselves to to facts, more and more they are about the rest of that list.  Fake news is a strong term but it is a necessary term as so much of what the media shares is bias-filled, clickbait focused tripe.

Ask yourself:  If the media can lie about our imminent doom, why can't they do it for immigration, politics and climate change (formerly known as global warming)?

Saturday Learning Series Bonus - Unexplained space stuff

Stuff in space that we just can't explain.

Friday Musical Interlude - An hour of epic space music

Some background music for your space adventure...

Sharing the best of it

I was catching up on my reading and viewing yesterday and I got to the Pajamas Media PJTV offerings and I saw a number of pieces that made me think to myself "I've got to re-post that!"  I couldn't possibly re-post them all or else I'd look like a local affiliate of Pajamas TV.  The Canadian affiliate I supposed.

Bill Whittle was recently here in Toronto and unfortunately for me, I missed it. I wasn't able to attend, though I'd hoped to do so  After his trip, Bill had some complimentary things to say about Toronto and about Canada and our relationship with the U.S. and some not so complimentary things about our institutionalized multiculturalism. He could not have been more correct. To see his thoughts, on the subject, check this out. I hope he comes back again, I will be sure not to miss him next time.

And again from Bill Whittle, there's a monologue - a eulogy almost - about America's future past and why space exploration is was one of the somethings that made America great.  He leaves it to his audience to infer for themselves that the money for space exploration, which is a drop int he fiscal bucket (now even less than a drop), was better spent than so many Utopian progressive spending efforts that have supplanted the right type of government investments.  He does briefly give credit to private individuals who are attempting to fill the void. But the real learning he provides comes at 5:09.

But that still wasn't the video I decided I'd share.  Instead I wanted to share this discussion that focuses on the recent hot topic of media/polling bias in the presidential race.  Here's the take of Scott Ott, Bill Whittle and Stephen Green on Trifecta.