About Scott
Senior Editor
Name: Scott Ogrin
Scottie is an electrical and computer engineer with a BSEE and MSEE. After working in the automotive and telecom industries in hardware and testing, he ended up as a software engineer.
He joined SOTT in 2003 as an editor, and is currently the webmaster and Chief Engineer for Sott.net.
In his spare time, he works on his popular techie blog.
Latest News
- GMO brewer's yeast used to produce THC and CBD
- How's that blockade working Trump? Not a single European country has banned Huawei
- Scientists 'clear' Alzheimer's plaque from mice using only light and sound
- The illusion of truth: Believing something is true when it's not
- Mueller exonerates Trump - now it's time for 'full disclosure'
- TV ad in migrant's native language enrages Swedish, causes backlash on social media
- Macron wishes 'wisdom' to 73 year old injured Yellow Vest protester
- Erdogan mulls converting Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
- Irish soldier turned 'ISIS bride' says she wants to return home
- French Muslim council to file complaints against Facebook & YouTube for distributing Christchurch shooting video
- Ukrainian side involved in MH17 flight disaster over Donbass - former SBU officer
- Sharks, dying and decayed by the dozens, wash up on New Jersey beach
- Tennis ball-sized hail wreaks havoc in Newcastle, South Africa
- Paul Joseph Watson: The Collapse of Western Civilization
- Why do you want to poison me? Iowa town bans fluoride as chemical's danger becomes increasingly apparent
- Trump's paramilitary plot to overthrow Maduro uncovered in Venezuela
- United Kingdom: Islamophobic incidents skyrocket by 600% during week after New Zealand terror attack
- Microsoft using manufactured DNA-based data storage
- UN Special Rapporteur: US sanctions don't work, are illegitimate, and worsen human rights situation
- CNN roasted for urging US voters to stay off Twitter if they want to understand 2020 elections
- How's that blockade working Trump? Not a single European country has banned Huawei
- Mueller exonerates Trump - now it's time for 'full disclosure'
- Macron wishes 'wisdom' to 73 year old injured Yellow Vest protester
- Ukrainian side involved in MH17 flight disaster over Donbass - former SBU officer
- Trump's paramilitary plot to overthrow Maduro uncovered in Venezuela
- UN Special Rapporteur: US sanctions don't work, are illegitimate, and worsen human rights situation
- CNN roasted for urging US voters to stay off Twitter if they want to understand 2020 elections
- Russia seeks new gas transit deal with Ukraine - energy ministry
- In Ukraine's Presidential vote the joker's wild
- SOTT Focus: It's Official: Russiagate is This Generation's WMD
- NZ shooter 'backed by global forces hostile to Islam' - ex-Turkish minister
- Pepe Escobar: Empire of chaos in hybrid wars
- Trump to appoint a committee on climate security for a much-needed and overdue return to science
- Trump signs declaration recognizing Israel's sovereignty over Syria's Golan Heights - UN rules it null and void
- US' shift on Golan: A disdain for the rights of Syrians under protection of international humanitarian law
- Israel launches another round of airstrikes against Gaza, in response to one rocket strike (which Hamas denies firing)
- Russia gives US a red line in Venezuela then pulls a Syria: S-300 missile batteries now up and active near Caracas
- U.S. air strikes kill a dozen Afghans, battle intensifies in Taliban strongholds
- Kremlin's Peskov gives perfect take on Mueller report: 'Hard to find a black cat in a dark room, if it isn't there'
- Talk of Golan annexation leaves out those expelled from it
- TV ad in migrant's native language enrages Swedish, causes backlash on social media
- Erdogan mulls converting Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
- Irish soldier turned 'ISIS bride' says she wants to return home
- French Muslim council to file complaints against Facebook & YouTube for distributing Christchurch shooting video
- Paul Joseph Watson: The Collapse of Western Civilization
- United Kingdom: Islamophobic incidents skyrocket by 600% during week after New Zealand terror attack
- Russian Orthodox priest calls sex reassignment surgery a 'crime against God'
- Banning of Christchurch shooter's manifesto sparks free-speech debate in New Zealand
- Monsanto takeover 'a good idea' despite lawsuits says Bayer CEO
- WikiLeaks probe: Supporters say Manning in 'solitary confinement'
- Twitter roasts both Koran-burning and hardline Islamist rally in Denmark
- 'Protecting money at expense of children': Jailed whistleblower's wife details his confinement to RT
- Viking Sky cruise ship safely arrives at Norwegian port after engine disaster
- Russian bar patrons narrowly escape a 'chainsaw massacre' as man goes berserk
- Yale rescinds student's admission as defendants charged in $25 million college entrance scam set to appear in Boston federal court
- Fake News for sale: Guardian and Open Philanthropy Project ink deal to pen stories
- 'The left has gone too far': Jordan Peterson gives warning against 'totalitarian tilt' coming from the left
- DoS attack forces New Zealand Police to shut down gun confiscation website
- French soldiers allowed to 'open fire' if lives are threatened by Yellow Vest protesters this weekend as the military is drafted to help police
- Tens of thousands rally against EU copyright bill
- Unearthed relic in Turkey shifts metallurgy's origin story
- 'Sorry, we didn't know it was invisible': How an F-117 stealth jet was downed during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- Humans in Australia 120,000 years ago? Evidence disputed
- Flashback Best of the Web: Parenti: NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 wrapped up 'rational destruction' of Yugoslavia
- Secret internal memo warned 17 years ago that Bush's Iraq invasion would create a "perfect storm"
- Pilgrims came from afar to 'worship at Moses' last stand' in Jordan
- 20 years on: RT documentary reveals the toxic legacy of NATO's 1999 bombing campaign against Yugoslavia
- Why did US defense giant Northrop Grumman test a 75yo Nazi prototype stealth bomber?
- Secret report reveals how NATO war against Gaddafi could have started in mid-80s
- Unknown ancient Mesopotamian city discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Ancient monkey bone tools pushes back date for human migration into jungles
- The first farmers were direct descendants of hunter-gatherers and not migrants, new study reveals
- Oldest astrolabe discovered in sunken Portuguese ship
- Virgin with laughing child: Scholars unveil Leonardo da Vinci's "only surviving sculpture"
- Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberian Peninsula
- Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus' puzzling description of large trading boat right
- A new generation of people in Arctic and Northwest Coast communities are reviving indigenous tattooing
- Mexico, 1968: When 'mystery snipers' opened fire on their own troops
- Best of the Web: Economist Ricardo Hausmann's 'morning after' for Venezuela: The neoliberal brain behind Juan Guaido's economic agenda
- New research suggests Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar lived near a US base in Afghanistan
- Scientists 'clear' Alzheimer's plaque from mice using only light and sound
- Microsoft using manufactured DNA-based data storage
- New, massive storms forming on Neptune
- Ben Shapiro interviews Stephen Meyer about intelligent design
- 'Enhanced' geothermal plant implicated in South Korea's second most destructive earthquake
- Asteroid Ryugu is surprisingly dry, Japanese spacecraft finds
- Turns out we didn't understand viruses: Plant virus distributes genes into separate cells - all work together
- Global AI development threatened by Boeing's recent crashes
- Electricity-eating microbes fix carbon dioxide using electrons
- "Mindblowing" haul of fossils over 500 million years old unearthed in China
- Michael Behe responds to his Lehigh colleagues' inability to grasp the first rule of adaptive evolution
- Dynamic genome discovery: Harvard scientists uncover 'DNA switch' that could lead to human limb regrowth
- Michael Behe: One man's battle with Darwinian evolution
- Roscosmos chief Rogozin: The new space race has begun
- Robots used to aid communication between bees and fish
- Can zapping the brain with lasers cure alcoholism? Scripps scientists think so
- Scientists meet to investigate the 'Great Silence': Are we in a 'galactic zoo'?
- Devolution as evolution?
- Huge new sunspot AR2736 forms rapidly as Solar Minimum underway
- Rogue waves are becoming rarer and more extreme
- Sharks, dying and decayed by the dozens, wash up on New Jersey beach
- Tennis ball-sized hail wreaks havoc in Newcastle, South Africa
- Violent flash floods hit Shiraz, Iran killing at least 18
- Woman still in hospital after 100kg fur seal bites her 'to the bone' in Victoria, Australia
- Austrian court jails woman over fatal dog attack on toddler
- Landslide triggered by heavy rain kills 6 family members in Pakistan
- Dead gray whale washed ashore on Malibu Beach, California
- Afghanistan and Iran - further floods leave 13 dead, thousands affected
- Cyclone Veronica: Destructive winds and rain lash Australia - Second storm system within 48 hours to hit country
- Strong 6.1-magnitude quake jolts eastern Indonesia's North Maluku province
- Rare south Atlantic tropical storm forms off the coast of Brazil
- Pet owner dead, 'attacked by her two pit bull terriers" in Irving, Texas
- U.S. Government warns of historic, widespread flooding "Through May" - Food prices to skyrocket as 1000s of farms are destroyed
- Lagoon's 'incredible refuge' may hold secret to coral survival
- One-year-old boy mauled to death by two dogs in Fresno, California
- Hundreds of birds die as massive hailstorm hits Newcastle, South Africa
- Passenger video shows cruise ship issue mayday during stormy weather and engine failure off coast of Norway
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: How much food prices will rise after Midwest USA floods
- Dust devil hits Mexico's Chichen Itza a day after Spring Equinox
- Cyclone Idai: Satellite images show extent of flooding around Beira, Mozambique - new lake forms measuring 80 by 15 miles
- Bright meteor fireball observed over Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Streaking fireball, believed to be meteorite, spotted over Gadsden County, Florida
- Meteor fireball spotted over parts of New York State [VIDEO]
- Best of the Web: HUGE meteor exploded over Russia's Far East in December last year - Blast was 10 times more powerful than Hiroshima
- Meteor fireball falls in Russia's territory
- Search begins for meteorite that fell on desert in Abu Dhabi, UAE - UPDATE: Second meteor fireball spotted in ONE week
- Impressive meteor fireball reported over SW France
- Meteor fireball seen in Houston area, Texas
- Meteor fireball reported over Canadian Maritimes
- Source of loud boom heard, felt in Charleston, South Carolina still unknown
- Video shows meteor fireball blazing over Kansas
- Meteor fireball explodes above French island of Mayotte
- Meteor fireball sighted in 5 countries in Europe, photographed by 3 sky cameras
- Mysterious house-shaking booms reported in Louisville, Kentucky
- Meteor fireball spotted over Sugarland, Texas
- Mysterious fireball spotted over Cornwall, UK
- Meteor fireball caught on doorbell camera in Anchorage
- Dashcam captures meteor fireball flying over northern Spain
- Meteor fireball blazes over Florida night sky - UPDATE
- 'Aurora-like airglow' in the sky as meteor passes over central Wales, UK
- GMO brewer's yeast used to produce THC and CBD
- Why do you want to poison me? Iowa town bans fluoride as chemical's danger becomes increasingly apparent
- US: Organic and regular avocados recalled in six states after listeria found in facility
- The dark side of green smoothies
- Statins war of words: Matt Hancock dragged into ongoing debate over cholesterol-lowering drug taken by millions of Britons
- Terminally-ill British mother shocks medics after tumour shrinks by 75% following alternative treatment in Mexico
- Genetic risk scores alone aren't that good at predicting health
- Data from medical research: The right to know, or not know
- Saffron: A safe and effective treatment for postpartum depression
- Will more genetically engineered foods be approved under the FDA's new leadership?
- Barbara Loe Fisher: Taking no prisoners in the vaccine culture war
- CVS Pharmacy to sell CBD products in 800 stores in 8 states
- Vitamin A: Vitamin or villain?
- From a desert to a paradise: Regenerative agriculture finds solid backing as decades of success show renewal
- Scientists discover mounting evidence that Parkinson's starts in the gut - not the brain
- Pesticide residues found in 70% of produce sold in US even after washing
- Los Angeles County Board bans use of Roundup for all county departments
- Buyer beware: Dangers of gluten-free foods
- Fungi enthusiasts: Advocates for 'mycoremediation' use mushrooms to clean up waste
- Teen's bizarre sudden-onset schizophrenia caused by cat scratch disease
- The illusion of truth: Believing something is true when it's not
- New test of 'light triad' traits explores the saintlier side of the human personality
- Thought crime science: Case studies in becoming an enemy of liberal orthodoxy
- The toll of excessive text communications on your psyche
- Kids are missing out on climbing trees
- Social media is making Americans unhappy, but can they ditch it?
- Keeping the candlelight illuminated: Thich Nhat Hanh's final mindfulness lesson - how to die peacefully
- How science fixed my wandering mind
- There's a hidden cost to reminders
- Atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method, prize-winning physicist says
- Study: Short-acting psychedelic found in toad venom helps relieve depression, anxiety
- Brain perceives objects better with attention
- New study: Trigger warnings are effectively useless
- How to actually, truly focus on what you're doing
- How to daydream your way to better learning and concentration
- Different meditation types train distinct parts of your brain
- What happens when you spend a year using science to improve your brain?
- Humans have an inbuilt compass
- Incidental negative emotions can reduce our capacity to trust others
- Mothers are drowning in stress
- Drone films site of mysterious death of Russian hikers 60 years ago as probe reopened
- Helicopter pilot sees UFO through his night vision goggles over Las Vegas
- Oldest pyramid on Earth is hidden in Antarctica claims researcher
- DNA testing needed to help identify mystery animal that attacked and killed North Carolina teacher
- Australian police post video of strange light emerging from thunderstorm
- Possible Big Foot sighting: Young boy lost in the woods says he made friends with a "bear"
- Russia's Prosecutor-General's Office reopens mysterious 1959 Dyatlov Pass case - UPDATE
- Strange 'pill-shaped' object seen pulsing in NC sky
- MH370 sighting claimed to be spotted on NASA satellite photo
- Missing 411? 3 y.o. boy found alive two days after vanishing from family home
- Area 51 whistleblower Bob Lazar appears on Larry King's show
- Harry Reid urges senators to push for more substantial UFO research
- 'Weird red sphere' filmed over South Carolina's Kiawah Island on Christmas Eve
- More mysterious electrical sky events over Dublin, Juarez and amazing explosions in Kenner, Louisiana
- Sightings of UFOs and strange phenomena increasing over New Zealand
- Sky over NYC lit up with mysterious blue light as Queens residents report explosions
- London's Gatwick airport faces second day of chaos after 'drones' repeatedly breach restricted airspace
- Radar anomaly seen across Illinois, Kentucky possibly part of war games?
- UFO? North Carolina fisherman captures video of lights multiplying over ocean
- Texas resident records mysterious 'cigar-shaped' object in the sky - 'motionless for 20 minutes'
- 'It's easier to fly nude': Moscow airport police detain naked man who tried to board plane
- 'Justin Beaver' sighting portends bad news for Washingtonians!
- US psychiatric wards on alert for influx of deranged liberals should Mueller report not prove collusion
- Jonathan Pie: Brexit - What the f**k is going on?
- BREAKING: Everyone who opposes war is a Russian antisemite
- OCD mouse does midnight tidy of UK pensioner's workbench
- Leprechauns enjoy final St Patrick's Day having driven all snakes out of Ireland to Westminster
- The key to stopping mass shootings is to pass sensible legislation against thoughts and prayers says AOC
- New government guidelines require police supervision for knife use
- Bear bandit raids Siberian ranger hut in search of... a newspaper?
- New edition of Harry Potter series to include sections on World History so millennials will actually know something useful
- The fastest growing disorder in America? Trump Derangement Syndrome! Are you a sufferer?
- Russian granny walks 90 miles a week to deliver mail to village
- True progressivism knows the truth: 'We're the last possible hope for mankind'
- Georgia woman wins $10K for actually reading the fine print in her insurance policy
- Upcoming Eurovision song contest overshadows Israeli war crimes
- Pennsylvanians in shock as Punxsutawney Phil is arrested for fraud
- 'Salah's my favorite player, he's polite & good-tempered' - 7yo Iranian viral sensation on football hero
- Neo-Nazi group's new leader is a black man who vows to dissolve it
- After impactful Gillette ad released toxic masculinity drops to all time low
Quote of the Day
Confucius has no interest in falsehood; he did not pretend to be prophet; he claimed no inspiration; he taught no new religion; he used no delusions; flattered not the emperor under whom he lived.
- Voltaire
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