tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344827936264283032024-03-13T01:25:43.141-04:00The Math Skeptic"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count;<br>everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted." - Albert EinsteinThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-64419089883275242162013-07-19T15:56:00.001-04:002013-07-27T00:20:12.238-04:00Maybe Bees Aren't So Bad After All
As my regular readers are probably already aware, I make no secret of my anti-bee stance. These kamikaze insect assailants have been plaguing humanity for thousands of years, bribing us with their so-called "honey" to make us forget their evil doings.
However, a recent news i have come across on the news has prompted me to re-evaluate this stance just slight-ly.
As it turns out, bees are notThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-30981485395195840922013-07-03T15:17:00.000-04:002013-07-04T15:50:28.246-04:00Hallucinating Robots Are Coming To Kill Us To Death!As part of their ongoing efforts to hasten the robot uprising against all humans known as the singularity, roboticists at Cornell University have developed the first robots that can literally hallucinate humans into existence.
Ashutosh Saxena and his colleagues are working to create robots that can function in human environments such as our homes and offices, where they would function as maids The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-5291698810024557012013-06-29T22:25:00.002-04:002013-06-29T22:28:05.000-04:00New Study: Teaching Math In School Is PointlessThe Post-Apocalyptic United States Department of Education (PAUSDOE) has released the latest report card on the educational achievement levels of U.S. students. The results are simply shocking.
That is, it's shocking if you are not a person well-versed in mathematical skepticism and aware of the inherent fallibility of numbers.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-75695860111185326222013-06-24T23:00:00.000-04:002013-06-24T23:10:47.463-04:00A Courageous Stand Against the Environ-Mentalists!In a post-apocalyptic world where terror, danger, and absolute terror reign supreme, it is nice to know that some individuals are still standing up against the forces of terror, danger, and absolute terror.
In Tennessee, that individual is apocalypse survivor Sherwin Smith, deputy director of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Smith is taking a courageous stand against The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-79364019196869390482013-06-23T20:09:00.000-04:002013-06-24T22:04:20.164-04:00The Plants Have Sided With The Numbers! (DOOM)I don't normally read British news. In fact, one could say that I don't approve of the British, what with their left-side drivingness and blatant misuse of U's. But today I happened to stumble internetarily onto an article on the BBC News that literally frightened me to doom!
The numbers, not content with having vanquished the entire animal kingdom by driving its most important species (us) toThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-51145855424750076562013-06-11T07:56:00.000-04:002013-06-11T12:56:37.987-04:00Math Indoctrination Camps To Indoctrinate Surviving Girls!Despite their victory over the human race with the successful December 21 apocalypse that left all of human society in shatters, the numbers are not content. They are still working to destroy humanity's remaining remnants.
In their latest attack on humanity, the numbers are not only targeting innocent children, but innocent children of the weaker sex! Under the benign-sounding pretense of "free The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-63791909889536639702013-05-10T17:01:00.000-04:002013-06-11T07:07:39.370-04:00"I'm Not Good At Math:" IRS Official Confirms Numerist Conspiracy Even after the downfall of the United States in conjunction with the total global world apocalypse, the surviving members of the U.S. government continue to embroil themselves in SCANDAL.
The latest scandal comes courtesy of my old enemies at the Internal Revenue Service, after a top official admitted that the IRS has been unfairly scrutinizing Tea Party political organizations as political The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-67883154990382056242013-02-15T22:00:00.000-05:002013-07-04T15:46:55.351-04:00THE CHELYABINSK METEOR: MERCURY STRIKES BACK
This is indeed one of those moments in which it is difficult to avoid saying that I told you so.
Because the fact is that I told you so.
I have warned time and time again against the dangers of meddling with the planets of our solar system. Many a time have I cautioned against annoying the inner planets and the gas giants with our space probes and roving rovers and robotic orbiting The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-89731750932169757972013-01-21T18:46:00.000-05:002013-06-11T07:06:38.806-04:00Post-Apocalyptic United States Inaugurates First President!So apparently the former United States is attempting to continue on with "business as usual." Today, President and possible pod-clone Barack Obama was inaugurated once again as the 44th President of the United States - and 1st President of the Post-Apocalyptic United States.
This is not entirely unexpected. I'm not at all surprised that the numbers allowed the President and senior government The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-6571790067772210072012-12-27T15:14:00.000-05:002013-06-15T21:40:32.042-04:00Venturing Outside - The Live-BlogAs time in my reinforced concrete bunker has passed, it has become increasingly clear that my six months' supply of vodka (and other consumables but mainly vodka) will barely last another week. So I have decided - after much contemplation - to venture outside the safety and security of my bunker for the first time since The End Of The World.
It will not be an easy journey, nor am I entirely The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-84837272420813956352012-12-25T10:01:00.000-05:002012-12-25T10:01:00.283-05:00Merry Christmas, Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare WorldThe Post-Apocalyptic World President issues the following statement to commemorate the First Christmas of the Post-Apocalyptic World:Gentlemen, ladies, and mutated bi-genderal survivors,
Exactly two thousand and twelve years ago today, a baby was born in a barn in Jerusalem or somewhere in that general Middle Easty area. That baby's name was Jesus H. Christ. He came to us from God to save the The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-77837515734562152582012-12-24T21:24:00.000-05:002012-12-24T21:24:00.288-05:00I HAVE ACQUIRED A MOTORCYCLEAs President of the Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare World, I wish to inform all of my surviving constituents that our great nation has acquired a motorcycle. This all-important vehicle -- the Half-Car of Freedom -- will help our fledgling country in the coming weeks and months, allowing us to form a cannibal motorcycle gang that will defend our world-country from rival cannibal motorcycle gangs.
The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-43509030285387857012012-12-23T09:08:00.000-05:002012-12-23T09:08:00.395-05:00Day Two In The Post-Apocalyptic Nightmare WorldIt is now two days after the apocalypse. Still no signs of life outside. Still no radio and television. By the looks of it, I am literally the last human alive on Earth.
Which is a mixed blessing, really. On the one hand, I've never really been all that fond of people to begin with. On the other, I could see this sort of life getting lonely after a while.
Being the self-declared President of The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-65255701927200161832012-12-22T08:19:00.000-05:002012-12-22T08:19:00.571-05:00The Day AfterWell, that was truly a terrifying night.
There were the tornadoes, and the timequakes, and the tornadoes filled with timequakes. It was absolutely horrible. I doubt many people survived.
But by some miracle, I am still here.
It's quiet outside. Too quiet. I wonder if I'm the last human on Earth, or if there are pockets of survivors out there somewhere.
One thing that's certain - most of The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-5568498144572374222012-12-21T01:04:00.000-05:002013-06-15T21:30:15.370-04:00LIVE-BLOGGING THE APOCALYPSE
In this post I will be providing live, up-to-the minute updates of the events of Earth's last day on Earth!
If you see that this page has not been updated in a few hours, it likely means that I'm:
Dead from an earthquake/solar flare/asteroid impact/crustal displacement/what have you.
Sleeping
Unstuck in time and currently in the late 19th Century
Drunk
Stealing my neighbor's motorcycle
And nowThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-43884165110717904242012-12-20T13:18:00.002-05:002012-12-20T21:57:47.779-05:00THE WORLD ENDS TOMORROW!!!Gentlemen!
I do hope that each and every one of you has prepared for tomorrow's Apocalypse! For suffice it to say that if you have not prepared for the December 21, 2012 Mayan apocalypse then you are unprepared for the apocalypse!
Now many of you may be saying "But The Math Skeptic! How can I possibly prepare for the End of all Earth? If all of us are going to die, what is the point of preparingThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-66873044422101661982012-12-18T15:11:00.000-05:002012-12-18T15:16:18.944-05:00Twin NASA Spacecraft Crash Into The Moon!In a shocking preapocalyptic development, NASA has announced that two of its lunar-orbiting spacecraft have crashed into the Moon!
And! According to the scienticians and engineerlings at NASA, the crash of the GRAIL probes - nicknamed Arthur and Patsy - was deliberate.
To which I say BALDERWASH!
You may or may not be a movie "buff" and therefore may or may not get this "reference" but if you The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-31244931839051073882012-12-15T23:26:00.000-05:002012-12-15T23:42:45.907-05:00The Numbers That Stole Christmas!Around this time of the year, the pro-Christmas faction of conservatism and the anti-Christmas faction of liberalism engage in the annual holiday ritual known as the War on Christmas. This so-called "war" consists mainly of rhetoric and court cases and sternly-worded Letters to Editors as we Conservatives try to mind our own business and enjoy this festive occasion in the manner that Jesus The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-19920931160980987842012-12-14T16:47:00.002-05:002012-12-15T22:23:11.707-05:00The World Ends One Week From Today!Have you ever heard the expression "Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life?"
Well, today is like that. Only a more accurate expression would be "Today Is The First Day Of The Last Week Of Your Life".
And indeed this statement may well be true. Nevertheless, there is a very slim chance that you will survive next Friday's Total Global Apocalypse and/or Timequake, which as we all know wasThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-40151916454471738192012-12-12T16:56:00.003-05:002012-12-12T17:42:05.875-05:00NASA Confirms Apocalyptic PredictionsA new video leaked by the NASA public affairs office confirms what I and other conspiracy theorists have been speculating for years: the world is indeed going to end on December 21st.
Though the video, titled "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday," was obviously intended to calm public fears about the December 21 apocalypse, it is having much the opposite effect. Why?Because it is dated December The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-16083109775570654092012-12-11T23:18:00.001-05:002012-12-11T23:18:48.447-05:00US Students Rank Number One in Math and Science ResistanceIn these preapocalyptic days, it's always nice to hear some good news. And we got some great news today courtesy of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Fourth- and eighth-grade students in the United States were far outranked in math and science by their peers in Europe and Asia, demonstrating that American students remain the best in the civilized world at resisting The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-16223644560852004942012-12-07T13:30:00.000-05:002012-12-09T11:04:33.189-05:00So Apparently You Need A LICENSE To Buy A Motorcycle Now!Well, suffice it to say that my preparations for the impending apocalypse have hit a minor snag.
It is a well-established fact that the post-apocalyptic nightmare world to come will be ruled by warring cannibal motorcycle gangs. This is simply the default human response to a breakdown of law and order - we return to our baser instincts and resort to tribalism and motorcycle maintenance. We need The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-63466745743893450132012-12-06T10:35:00.000-05:002012-12-15T20:22:47.175-05:00If This Isn't A Sign Of The Impending Apocalypse, I Don't Know What Is!When I opened my internet-box this morning to scan the incoming news-feeds for incoming news, I was shocked to see what I saw.
A bunch of animal-rights whackos in New Zealand have been teaching DOGS to drive CARS!
In what was apparently a publicity stunt to raise awareness of the existence of dog adoption or somesuch nonsense, the New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-76677178118279959782012-12-05T11:09:00.002-05:002012-12-05T17:13:09.617-05:00A Brief Synopsis of the End of the World"Some say the world will end in fire, others in ice.
I say it's probly gonna be a little of both."
One thing is absolutely certain: the world is ending on December 21. There is no question about that, as confirmed by the overwhelming consensus of 2012 Doomsday believers who believe that doomsday is coming this month.
Many readers have written to ask me how the world is going to end. The details The Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534482793626428303.post-32632290563956454112012-12-01T11:17:00.001-05:002012-12-02T00:27:34.838-05:00Undisputable Proof of the Climatist-Numerist ConspiracyA shocking exposé of climate science by James Lawrence Powell, executive director of the National Physical Science Consortium, has uncovered what I have been saying about Global Warming since the 1970s. It is nothing less than a gigantic conspiracy coordinated by thousands of scientists over more than 40 years.
Powell, author of The Inquisition of Climate Science, studied nearly fourteen thousandThe Math Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18437241217400239016noreply@blogger.com1