Searching for Time Travelers on the Internet | The Volokh Conspiracy

Searching for Time Travelers on the Internet | The Volokh Conspiracy

Yet another scientific study that finds zero data upon which to report. I would expect that, in a more efficient world, we would not require public money to be used in the reporting of failure. Bad enough that we funded the spurious research in the first place.

In a paper pre-published on arXiv, a pair of actual physics professors detail their exhaustive efforts to canvass the Internet for evidence of time travelers.

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Time travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers.

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They go on to explain that they approached the problem by scouring the Web for tweets, Google searches, and other online postings about events—such as a comet or the naming of a new pope—that hadn’t happened yet at the time they were posted. “Given practical verifiability concerns,” the researchers note, “only time travelers from the future were investigated.” That’s understandable: Time travelers from the past presumably wouldn’t have had prescient insights to offer. Sadly, it seems, neither did any time travelers from the future. “No time travelers were discovered,” the researchers report.

The tone might be a bit light, but the money spent on this research was as real as it gets.

Ford: 'We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing' | The Daily Caller

Ford: 'We know what you're doing' | The Daily Caller

Only 96% of new cars have GPS capability, so they do not have all the info on EVERYBODY. Yet.

A top Ford executive made a startling admission about the amount of data the auto maker tracks from its customers at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show this week.

“We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it,” Ford Vice-President Jim Farley told a crowd in Las Vegas during the show. “We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing.”


Of all mass-produced vehicles in 2013, about 96 percent had computers recording and transmitting the type of data Farley was talking about. Police have even begun using such data to investigate car accidents.

What a bizarre boast for an auto executive to make. But then, maybe it was just a gaffe, so everything is OK.

For Every One Job Added, Nearly 5 People Left the Workforce | The Weekly Standard

For Every One Job Added, Nearly 5 People Left the Workforce | The Weekly Standard

Senator Jeff Sessions has the grim facts:

Today’s jobs report underscores a deeper problem facing our economy: a large and growing block of people who are chronically jobless and completely outside the workforce. In December, the economy added only 74,000 jobs – not nearly enough to keep up with population growth –and 347,000 left the workforce. That means for every one job added, nearly 5 people left the workforce entirely. There are now nearly 92 million Americans outside the workforce, resulting in the lowest participation rate in 36 years.

And remember that 36 years ago, many more wives stayed at home and took care of their household.

De Blasio's Horse-Drawn Carriage Ban | The American Spectator

De Blasio's Horse-Drawn Carriage Ban | The American Spectator

Call it Carriage-Gate. The far-left new mayor of NYC has taken it upon himself to make banning New York City's hansom cabs his first priority. Robert Stacey McCain has a neat piece of investigative journalism on the budding scandal. Apparently the socialist mayor is in the pocket of real estate tycoons, and is using humanitarian groups for cover. Read the piece - it's a laugh a minute. The hypocrisy of the left always makes me smile.

Top 10 Media Hate-Crime Hoaxes of 2013

Top 10 Media Hate-Crime Hoaxes of 2013

John Nolte has his list of ten most egregious media hoaxes on 2013 up, but, to me, he missed the biggest of all - global warming. But I will give him some slack, since the CAGW hoax is fomented by a far bigger and more powerful amalgam of interests than merely the MSM. Like the academic establishment, the political establishment, and the religious nuts who are everywhere and always trying to get us to self-flagellate.

Weather Is Not Climate | National Review Online

Weather Is Not Climate | National Review Online

A snippet:

Basic physical chemistry dictates that if you change the makeup of the atmosphere, other things will change, too. The trouble is that, whatever they say, nobody really knows what or on what scale. And they certainly don’t know enough to warn that the end times are nigh. Nevertheless, that hasn’t stopped a diverse cast of prognosticators from trying — safe in the knowledge that being a climate scientist, to paraphrase a 1970s romantic movie that Al Gore claimed he inspired, means never having to say you’re sorry.