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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
- Ecuador's Sangay Volcano sees uptick in activity with blasts, ash emissions
- Trump, BLM, the election: American's opinions in this weeks Rasmussen polls
- Occupying Palestine is rotting Israel from inside - no Gulf peace deal can hide that
- Americans have little confidence in coronavirus vaccine
- Strzok interviews reveal FBI's long fall from grace
- Pelosi losing it: House will use 'every arrow in our quiver' to stop Trump Supreme Court nominee
- Scientists say your mind isn't confined to your brain, or even your body
- Officials call COVID-19 the 'largest mass fatality incident in modern NYC history' - no mention of lockdown?
- CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash
- Judge blocks Trump's WeChat app ban, citing first amendment - Trump extends TikTok deadline
- Huge wildfire breaks out in Saudi Arabia's Taif region
- 'F**k you and your dog!': Antifa gang attacks car with hammers, threaten dog inside
- 'Big, fat shots in the ass': Trump again suggests Biden is on energizing DRUGS
- England goes full-on barking mad: Breaking covid isolation to become illegal with fines up to £10,000
- Bill Gates sees 'best case' for end of fake pandemic in 2022.
- Portland pause ends: Police arrest 11 as Oregon wildfires clear and rioting resumes
- Face-to-face connectedness, oxytocin and your vagus nerve
- At least Trump is honest about his political assassinations
- Arizona student journalist 'canceled' over Jacob Blake tweet on sexual assault
- Man finds apparent brain on Racine beach - UPDATE: Medical examiner says 'not human'
- Occupying Palestine is rotting Israel from inside - no Gulf peace deal can hide that
- Strzok interviews reveal FBI's long fall from grace
- Pelosi losing it: House will use 'every arrow in our quiver' to stop Trump Supreme Court nominee
- CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash
- Judge blocks Trump's WeChat app ban, citing first amendment - Trump extends TikTok deadline
- 'Big, fat shots in the ass': Trump again suggests Biden is on energizing DRUGS
- England goes full-on barking mad: Breaking covid isolation to become illegal with fines up to £10,000
- Bill Gates sees 'best case' for end of fake pandemic in 2022.
- At least Trump is honest about his political assassinations
- Assange lawyer says she saw Trump ally Rohrabacher offer to arrange pardon
- War crimes trials over Yemen?
- I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be forced to vote for him this year.
- Best of the Web: The elite's contrived Black Lives Matters war on the deplorables
- Twilight in the desert for Saudi Arabia and Mohammed bin Salman?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg death opens complex partisan chessboard affected by timeline, COVID-19, election
- Secret Service intercepts package addressed to President Trump containing deadly ricin
- 2017 Trump-approved pardon offer for Assange was never realistic, analyst suggests
- NATO's slow-motion blitzkrieg towards Russia
- Russia to spend more on economy than on 'unparalled' weapon development in 2021
- A DARPA-funded implantable biochip to detect COVID-19 could hit markets by 2021
- Trump, BLM, the election: American's opinions in this weeks Rasmussen polls
- Americans have little confidence in coronavirus vaccine
- Officials call COVID-19 the 'largest mass fatality incident in modern NYC history' - no mention of lockdown?
- 'F**k you and your dog!': Antifa gang attacks car with hammers, threaten dog inside
- Portland pause ends: Police arrest 11 as Oregon wildfires clear and rioting resumes
- Arizona student journalist 'canceled' over Jacob Blake tweet on sexual assault
- Man finds apparent brain on Racine beach - UPDATE: Medical examiner says 'not human'
- English Councils banned staff from smoking at their desks at HOME
- Professor suspended for telling students she hopes Trump supporters catch coronavirus and die
- Just 51% of Americans would get coronavirus vaccine right now
- Belarusian police disperse anti-Lukashenko 'women's march' in Minsk, more than 100 arrests made
- Stephen Cohen has died. Remember his urgent warnings against the new Cold War
- At least 2 dead, 14 wounded in shooting at house party in Rochester, New York, authorities say
- Study finds 50% of British residents show at least some degree of support for conspiracy thinking about COVID-19
- Radical left threatens riots, war, and to 'burn it down' if RBG replaced
- Atlantic writer of '1619 Project' claims America was founded with arrival of slave trade then changes story when presented with screenshots
- 'BLM Karen' rages at drugstore manager who called police on shoplifters
- Hong Kong priest 'ready to head to Taiwan' to discuss surrender of murder suspect after border reopens - inspiration for failed extradition bill
- Dept. of Education launches probe after Princeton president acknowledges systemic racism
- Sweden nearing herd immunity, Covid-19 "may be finished" there says Danish professor
- Why did the US stupidly invade Iraq in 2003? Remarkable new book is the most exhaustive look yet
- Early evidence for humans in Arabia: Track of 120,000-year-old footprints discovered
- DNA studies show Vikings weren't all Scandinavians
- Mysterious Disappearance: 5 missing aircraft that still baffle investigators today
- First ever preserved grown-up cave bear found - even its nose tissue is intact
- Native American settlement discovered by drones beneath Kansas pasture
- Best of the Web: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tells Ron Paul that he believes JFK was assassinated by the CIA
- New evidence shows ancient hunters stayed in frozen Northern Europe rather than migrate to warmer areas
- Climate change implicated in downfall of Indus Valley Civilization
- Biden teaches history: 'A black guy invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison'
- 'Upside down houses' built for the dead in Stone Age tomb in Orkney
- Trove of undersea figurines point to ancient Phoenician cult
- Lactose tolerance spread throughout Europe in only a few thousand years
- Study of the death beliefs of Bronze Age people
- The long history of comet phobia
- 'Mammoth central' found at Mexico's Santa Lucia airport construction site
- Best of the Web: A warning from history: The Carrington event was not unique
- Parasitic worm infections common in Medieval Europe, grave study finds
- Hadrian's Wall dig reveals oldest Christian graffiti on chalice
- Complete 2,700 year old colosseum-like structure unearthed in Turkey may be sole surviving example
- Russia's Rezonans-NE Radar, capable of tracking hypersonic and stealth targets
- Two asteroids set to cross Earth's orbit just hours apart as another Great Pyramid-sized space rock barrels our way
- Unique supernova explosion discovered by researchers
- Rising in the north, setting in the south: Covid-19 in the USA
- Unmasked
- Study raises questions about sleep's role
- Geologists and seismologists are fascinated by 'precariously balanced rocks'
- Men and women have different circadian rhythms says new study
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Opening One's Mind to the Implications of Intelligent Design
- Flashback: Global warming? Study shows 84% of wildfires caused by humans
- New mass extinction event discovered
- Asteroid threat: ESA's ambitious Hera Planetary Defense Mission awards $153 million contract
- NASA announces Solar cycle 25 has begun, will be weakest since records began in 1755
- Animal's magnetic 'sixth' sense may come from bacteria
- Russian scientists have photographed microorganism fossils likely to be from another planet
- Structure of ATPase, the world's smallest turbine, solved
- The entire universe might be a neural network says Minnesota physicist
- Possible hint of life discovered on Venus
- Dark matter might be even stranger than we thought, according to Hubble
- Best of the Web: Was Covid-19 spreading freely worldwide before last Christmas? The evidence keeps stacking up
- Ecuador's Sangay Volcano sees uptick in activity with blasts, ash emissions
- Huge wildfire breaks out in Saudi Arabia's Taif region
- Aussie town lashed with a month's worth of rain in just 15 minutes
- One missing as severe floods hit southern France after torrential rain - up to 17.7 inches in just 12 hours
- More dead sea lions, turtles found on Baja Sur beach in Mexico
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Nile river signals a massive global rainfall shift
- Southern California is rocked by a 4.5-magnitude earthquake - with tremors felt from Los Angeles to San Diego
- At least 4 killed in floods and landslides in Myanmar - 6.6 inches of rain in 24 hours - Tropical Cyclone Noul also slams Vietnam
- Burning rubber: Lightning strike kills couple on bike in Maharashtra, India
- Deadly storm Ionas washes away entire beach on Greek island of Kefalonia
- Necropsy of massive dead whale under way on Jersey Shore beach
- Large landslide filmed in Sichuan, China
- 50,000 affected by floods in Kankan, Guinea
- 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits Mid-Atlantic ridge
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Will wildfire smoke cause record cold this Autumn?
- Massive flooding in Misurata, Libya
- Up to 6 inches of early snow hits Kyrgyzstan
- Lighting bolt kills 6 family members, injures 4 more in Cambodia
- Shocking image from space shows a record 5 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin at the same time
- Unusual Mediterranean cyclone 'Ianos' hits Western Greece
- Mysterious tremor, deafening bang that 'shook homes' leaves Snowdonia, Wales residents baffled
- Bright meteor fireball recorded over southern Spain
- Meteor fireball stunningly captured over Djuma Game Reserve, South Africa
- Amateur astronomer discovers kilometer-size asteroid
- Loud boom heard in Kilkenny, Ireland - again!
- Meteor fireball booms over California in stunning video - ''That was a close call'
- Meteor fireball over central Spain (Sep. 4)
- Meteor fireball spotted in background of news bulletin in Sydney
- Meteor fireball over the south of Spain on September 3
- Pennies from heaven: Meteorites worth thousands of dollars rain upon Brazilian town
- Mystery as massive boom shakes homes across Merseyside, UK
- Stunning meteor fireball seen in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan
- Meteor fireball lights up night sky over Greece
- Amateur skywatcher spots 'huge green' meteor fireball over Union, Oregon
- Loud home-rattling boom heard across west Cornwall, UK
- Meteor fireball over the south of Spain on August 22
- Like a full moon: 2nd meteor fireball since July 2 dazzles Japan's skies
- Flashing meteor seen over western Croatia during Perseids
- Kilkenny, Ireland residents baffled by mystery 'loud bang' heard around city
- Very bright meteor fireball illuminates night sky over Shandong, China
- Brucellosis outbreak in China linked to animal vaccine factory sickens thousands
- Best of the Web: Ben Swann: Vaccine study halted over "serious adverse side effects" - UPDATE: AstraZeneca jab showing adverse effects
- Injectable biochip for SARS-CoV-2 detection near FDA approval
- Good news! Butter booms to sales not seen since 1965
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health: - Health News Censorship on the Rise
- AstraZeneca suspends US COVID-19 vaccine trial amid serious concerns, trials continue in South Africa
- How ultra-processed food is ageing our cells
- Sputnik V launched: Russia dispatches first batches of pioneering Covid-19 vaccine to all of its 85 regions
- Best of the Web: Will new COVID vaccine make you transhuman?
- How the 'lost art' of breathing can impact sleep and resilience
- Will safety and effectiveness be ignored due to political pressure for COVID vaccine?
- After reliability of trial data questioned, creators of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine send 'detailed responses' to Lancet questions
- Coronavirus: What do we know about the artemisia plant?
- Drugs that block acetylcholine speed up cognitive decline - study
- COVID-19 vaccine candidate from Oxford University and AstraZeneca on hold after 'unexplained illness'
- Low-dose electrical stimulation reduces dyslexia deficits, study finds
- HealthPartners pauses enrollment in COVID-19 vaccine trial while AstraZeneca investigates reported illness
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Gov. Response Killed More Than Covid - Interview with Denis Rancourt
- 'The cholesterol hypothesis is dead, dead, dead'
- FDA wants to ban NAC now that it's known to combat COVID-19
- Scientists say your mind isn't confined to your brain, or even your body
- Face-to-face connectedness, oxytocin and your vagus nerve
- Meta-analysis indicates the Mozart effect might be the real thing
- Unconscious learning underlies belief in God; stronger beliefs in people who can unconsciously predict complex patterns
- Factors involved in psychopathy and schizophrenia already present in newborn brain cells
- The high price of perpetual fear
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with John Buchanan: Alfred North Whitehead - A Philosophy For Our Time
- Children use both brain hemispheres to understand language, unlike adults says new finding
- Best of the Web: Will you choose freedom?
- Scientists induce psychedelic-like experiences from a placebo alone
- More entitled people get angrier after experiencing bad luck
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Interview with Alan Francis: The Fourth Way, Taoism and Spiritual Development
- Massive study suggests dreams are really continuations of reality
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Dark Triad Politics: The Psychology of the Far Left and Alt Right
- What personality traits predict psychopathy and sex drive?
- New guidance on brain death
- Dark Triad traits and entitlement linked to both authoritarian political correctness and white nationalist beliefs
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: First Sight, Polyvagal Theory, and Contemplative Practices
- Best of the Web: John Waters: On escaping viral entrancement
- A mutilation of young lives: How the radical transgender bandwagon is wrecking girls' bodies and destroying their mental health
- Were ghosts caught on film at Gettysburg Civil War memorial?
- Eyewitness in Odessa, Ukraine: 'I filmed UFO over the Black Sea'
- UFO response protocol sent to Japanese military after Pentagon video release
- Mysterious lights in South Carolina sky spark UFO debate
- Unexplained lights seen in night sky above Largs, Scotland
- 'The seventh observable': An examination of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena from a scientific perspective
- Missing 411? TV producer Terrence Woods vanished while filming on The 'Gold Rush' franchise for Discovery
- Pentagon forming task force to investigate military's UFO encounters
- 'Barbaric' horse killings put French countryside on alert
- "The CIA simulated UFO abductions in Latin America as psychological warfare experiments" says Dr. Jacques Vallée in latest book
- Best of the Web: Investigations task force possible after more cattle mutilations in eastern Oregon
- Missing 411? Teen found alive in woods after going missing for 8 days and is unable to explain what happened
- Exorcist claims possessed woman threw 4 men across room and spoke demonic language
- Cow found mutilated in Eastern Oregon, investigators bewildered
- Evidence suggests UFO whistleblower Bob Lazar was telling the truth all along - world owes him an apology
- Best of the Web: Drip-drip disclosure: Pentagon UFO unit 'to publicly release some findings' after ex-official says 'off-world vehicle' found
- New never before seen pictures of Area 51 revealed
- Flashback: Greek merchant mariner recalls Burmuda Triangle UFO sighting
- 'Templar' crop circle appears in French field
- Mysterious lights spotted flashing in Houston, Texas sky
- Nobel prize? Trump forges peace deal between elves, dwarves
- Miracle cure! Mental health experts suggest logging off social media, then backing over all your electronic devices with a van
- Democrats reveal they have planted dynamite all around nation and will blow it up if Biden isn't elected
- U-Haul introduces new line of armored War Rigs: Perfect for Californians fleeing state's post-apocalyptic wasteland
- Babylon Bee explains it all for you: Creationism versus Evolution
- Rioters beginning to worry they can no longer loot safely
- Ingenuity, resolve, class: Man avoids wearing face mask on Tenerife flight by making tube of Pringles last four hours
- Breaking! Anonymous White House source claims Trump punched a baby!
- The woke creation myth: The genesis of injustice
- Best of the Web: Hancock's Half-Hour
- Eavesdropping on the Russkies: Let's poison somebody!
- Move over NFL: With professional sports canceled, Jordan Peterson to host first televised lobster fights
- Satire with a sting: Hollywood elites rush to normalize pedophilia before they're all outed by Ghislaine Maxwell
- CNN hires this is fine dog to report on riots
- Award-winning investigative journalist ridiculed on Twitter after calling out Ivanka Trump for 'LEGOGATE' fib
- Powerful: Protesters spell out 'love' with burning homes and businesses
- Cat lobby endorses Trump in hopes Americans will go back to work and leave them alone
- Approaching asteroid surges to the top of the polls
- Kamala Harris, 'pranked' by Russian comedians posing as Greta Thunberg, 'accepts' hoax kompromat on Trump
- Biden exceeds all expectations by speaking coherently for over 20 minutes!
Unfiltered photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco on September 10th, 2020... at 10:45am
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