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[snip] In this episode, Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA delves into their hits, songwriting, avatars and discusses the emerging role of AI in music creation. [snip]

Bjorn Lomborg notes in a November 12 piece in The Wall Street Journal that the momentum for re-ordering the world in a decidedly socialist and wealth-confiscating direction by dramatically reducing carbon emissions to “save us” from “environmental catastrophe” seems to have slowed. And while Lomborg’s voice has been valuable for the non-alarmist side of this debate — his book, and now movie, “Cool It” has garnered worthy attention — many of us “skeptics” still have bones to pick with the amiable Dane. The WSJ today published a letter of response by Heartland Institute policy advisors J. Scott Armstrong of The...

This is a response to "Why Can't We Innovate Our Way To A Carbon-Free Energy Future?", a "Perspective" by Bjorn Lomborg that ran in this space a week ago. Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It," is right about the need to focus on critical health and economic priorities. But he is wrong about human carbon dioxide emissions causing what is now being called "global climate disruption." By demonizing the gas of life, in league with Al Gore and Bill Gates, Lomborg commits several serious scientific errors. As independent scientists, with broad training in mathematics, physics, chemistry,...

I haven’t followed professional tennis for years, but as an aging baby boomer I acutely remember the Bjorn Borg – Jimmy Connors matchups of the late 70s and early 80s. These contests were the stuff of legend showcasing two of the most physically dominating players ever to take the court. What made the contests particularly watchable and fun was the sharp differences in the styles of play employed by the two men. Connors was the smaller man but his competitive fires were stoked to white-hot temperature that could blister the tele-ether and make viewers squirm in discomfort. Famous for his...

Burn, Baby Bjorn, Burn! The Report From the Committees on Saying McCarthyism in Danish By Charles Paul Freund Did you see where the Greens in Denmark have burned Bjorn Lomborg at the stake? A Danish institution with a deeply impressive (even pluralized!) name stenciled on its door, The Committees on Scientific Dishonesty, has reviewed Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, a statistical inquiry into the claims of Wild Environmentalism, and has made its pronouncement. Having examined the complaints against Lomborg, the Committees placed the Wig of Judiciousness on its head and lit the straw at the Danish statistician's feet. "Objectively...