Month: April 2024

I was just researching why the national polls are consistently skewed towards Democrats. Part of the problem is who is willing to answer the phone from a strange number, and then respond to a pollster. Maybe Republicans are more likely to be busy working. But really, it’s not a record of who answered what in…

I tried to test the “Allais Effect” during the Total Eclipse. In 1954, the economist Maurice Allais saw the precession of a pendulum reverse during a total eclipse. Subsequent experiments during other total eclipses mostly failed to replicate the result. I suspended a 30 lb dumbbell from a 13′ line. I used a red laser…