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
- Gobekli Tepe is huge!- Only scratched the surface of Gobekli Tepe so far
- Veteran reporter Hersh told Ed Butowsky on Trump-Russia 'collusion': "It was a Brennan operation"
- The comforting dreams and visions of the dying
- US & UK doctors issue warning against hormones/surgery for trans-identified kids
- Pepe Escobar: How to kill 10 million Afghans and not win
- Boris Johnson elected new Tory leader - succeeds Theresa May as UK prime minister
- Bird embryos communicate with each other from inside unhatched eggs
- Glass 'pearls' point to meteorite strike near Florida 2 million years ago
- Fading trust is "sign of cultural sickness and national decline": Poll shows Americans don't trust the govt, the media - or each other
- India successfully launches unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon - Follows delay due to "technical snag"
- 'Tensions have never been higher': Germany caught between right-wing and Islamic 'radicalism' and extremism
- 'Big victory' or 'kick the can'? Trump and Dems agree to dump US debt onto next president and future Americans
- Putin takes Lukashenko to Valaam Monastery: What IS he up to now?
- Riots in Israel continue as rampant allegations of racism against Ethiopian Jews persist
- Feces & flesh-eating bacteria: Study reveals shocking levels of contamination at America's beaches
- Comet fragment or Indian rocket launch? Eerie light seen in the night sky from all over eastern Australia
- 'Let me guess, you want to nuke them all': Trump constantly baiting John Bolton in front of officials, report says
- Comey probed Trump on the sly; DOJ watchdog has evidence he targeted Trump from the start
- Since the Russian narrative has imploded, BuzzFeed offers Ukraine as the new 2020 pro-Trump bogeyman
- Giuliani: The Epstein case is 'going to implicate a lot of people'
- Veteran reporter Hersh told Ed Butowsky on Trump-Russia 'collusion': "It was a Brennan operation"
- Pepe Escobar: How to kill 10 million Afghans and not win
- Boris Johnson elected new Tory leader - succeeds Theresa May as UK prime minister
- India successfully launches unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon - Follows delay due to "technical snag"
- 'Big victory' or 'kick the can'? Trump and Dems agree to dump US debt onto next president and future Americans
- Putin takes Lukashenko to Valaam Monastery: What IS he up to now?
- 'Let me guess, you want to nuke them all': Trump constantly baiting John Bolton in front of officials, report says
- Comey probed Trump on the sly; DOJ watchdog has evidence he targeted Trump from the start
- Since the Russian narrative has imploded, BuzzFeed offers Ukraine as the new 2020 pro-Trump bogeyman
- Giuliani: The Epstein case is 'going to implicate a lot of people'
- Questions about the Vatican's hidden finances and real estate dealings persist
- Virtue-signaling gone wrong: May refuses Trump offer to protect UK ships in order to please EU
- Imran Khan: Pakistani intelligence led CIA to Osama Bin Laden
- Europeans planning naval mission to ensure safe passage in Persian Gulf
- Venezuela: Nationwide blackouts blamed on 'electromagnetic attack'
- Pakistani PM Kahn says he'd give up nukes if India reciprocated - 'Nuclear war is not an option'
- Federal judge affirms North Carolina transgender people may use restroom of their gender identity in public buildings
- Russian & Chinese bombers make 'first' joint patrol in Asia-Pacific region
- Turkey meets with US to establish YPG-free safe zone in Syria
- Israeli forces celebrate blowing up a Palestinian house on video - and Western press and liberals ignore it
- US & UK doctors issue warning against hormones/surgery for trans-identified kids
- Fading trust is "sign of cultural sickness and national decline": Poll shows Americans don't trust the govt, the media - or each other
- 'Tensions have never been higher': Germany caught between right-wing and Islamic 'radicalism' and extremism
- Riots in Israel continue as rampant allegations of racism against Ethiopian Jews persist
- Bioethicist warns we are slouching toward a "Brave New World"
- Russian LGBT activist Elena Grigoryeva murdered in St. Petersburg
- Gender-selective abortion? No girls born in 3 months across 132 Indian villages
- Sacking of wildlife biologists and chief medical officer linked to glyphosate
- Devastation, outrage after Israeli forces destroy Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem
- Largest protest in Puerto Rico's history calls for resignation of beleaguered governor
- 'Utter nonsense': Corbyn smeared as anti-Semite because he opposes 'horrendous Israeli policies'
- Registered sex offender and disgraced ex-Congressman Weiner moves back in with his wife Huma Abedin and 7-year-old son
- It's now law: Hawaii decriminalizes marijuana possession and expunges some criminal records
- Syrian town where Christians and Muslims once lived side-by-side is now being rebuilt in region previously infested with terrorists
- Divorce is destroying the finances of Americans over 50
- Jeffrey Epstein pitched a new narrative. These sites published it
- Rugged individualism won't save us, but enlightened collectivism can
- APA advocates 'nonjudgmental posture' to nonmonogamy
- Jeffrey Epstein's company paid a Florida sheriff's office $128,000 during incarceration for prostitution charges
- Report: Gulf Cartel leader 'El Diablo' arrested sneaking across Texas border
- Gobekli Tepe is huge!- Only scratched the surface of Gobekli Tepe so far
- Dostoevsky's thoughtful critique of the Left - still relevant!
- Cosmo writer reveals how pro-abortion men pushed 1960's feminists to embrace legal abortion
- Roman coin stash 'may have been linked to Boudiccan revolt'
- Oldest Christian papyrus dated to 230AD reveals valuable insights into early Christianity
- Stonehenge and the buckets of lard
- Vast, developed 9,000-year-old settlement found near Jerusalem
- Secret stash of Puerto Rican figurines could be a remnant of unknown civilisation
- Ancient Rome revealed in stunning detail by 'most accurate model ever' that took historian 35 years to build
- The Revelations of Wikileaks: No. 4 - The haunting case of a Belgian child killer, corruption, trafficking, government cover-up
- Island's drill cores unravel mysteries of ancient Maltese civilisation
- Best of the Web: The Secret Origins of Silicon Valley: What The Big Tech Companies Do Not Want You to Know
- Israeli miscalculations and hubris led to the rise of Hamas
- Prehistory Decoded - An ancient fish tale
- Chaco Canyon and food scarcity
- Skulls provide earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia
- The first Europeans weren't who you might think
- Seven or more human types inhabited the planet before homo sapiens
- Ziklag? 3,000 year old city found south of Jerusalem ignites biblical debate
- The British roots of the Deep State: How the Round Table infiltrated America
- Bird embryos communicate with each other from inside unhatched eggs
- Glass 'pearls' point to meteorite strike near Florida 2 million years ago
- Astronomers have found a rare kilometer-wide asteroid with the shortest year known
- Stuff no one asked for: P&G launching 'smart diapers' with help from Google
- Ring-like formations discovered around lakes on Titan
- A newly discovered neural pathway processes acute light to affect sleep
- Could Giant Solar Farms make fuel and help solve climate change? Not likely!
- Elon Musk claims brain microchip has allowed monkey to "control a computer"
- Space-station cameras reveal how thunderstorms trigger gamma-ray bursts
- Plant viruses may be essential for maintaining biodiversity and helping plants adapt to their environment
- Shocker! The single-celled organisms prior to animals were "amazingly complex"
- Europe: Galileo GPS system is back online after a six-day outage failure
- The sweetest sound: Flowers can hear buzzing bees and it makes their nectar sweeter
- Astronomers come up with a new way to measure how fast the universe is expanding
- Coral reefs dying because of pollution, 30 years of unique data reveals
- Facebook AI's "alt text" feature likely to be abused by spooks & hackers
- 11-month old infant becomes youngest patient to receive novel treatment for rare lung disease
- Resurgence of wildlife at Chernobyl disaster site a boost for Intelligent Design
- A crisis of bad data analysis and replication in scientific studies
- 115 million year old lily found in Brazil is world's oldest, has fossilised flower and intact cells
- Extreme weather has had massive impact on food production in Andalusia, Spain
- Very rare seabird from Brazil drops in on Bermuda - 4,300 miles away from usual nesting sites
- Severe drought in its 4th year in Klein-Karoo, South Africa badly affecting crop production
- Man dies after being struck by lightning on Indiana lake
- Lion population has declined by 50% in 25 years - only 25,000 left in Africa
- Deadly floods hit south and east China - 6 inches of rain in 3 hours
- Shallow 6.0-magnitude quake hits Balleny Islands region in the Antarctic Ocean
- Hailstorm events on the rise in Alberta
- Flock of 58 native birds die after falling from sky bleeding from eyes in Australia
- Thai farmers asked to delay rice planting as drought bites
- Monsoon death toll tops 650 with 10 million affected as rains unleash flood fury in South Asia
- Dead blue whale found floating in Marbella, Spain
- Lightning kills 32 in a day in Uttar Pradesh as monsoon batters India
- The strongest summer Jet Stream to hit the Pacific Northwest EVER!
- US heatwave prompts concerns about elderly, homeless & inmates
- Massive wildfires hit Portugal
- Floods wreak havoc on croplands in Bangladesh
- Mount Bromo in East Java erupts
- Heavy rain hits western Japan, tens of thousands ordered to evacuate
- Mini tornado causes damage in Manchester, UK
- Comet fragment or Indian rocket launch? Eerie light seen in the night sky from all over eastern Australia
- ANOTHER meteor fireball seen from across Florida - Second such event in two weeks
- Boom heard, felt across four western Illinois counties - Remains mystery
- Loud boom of unknown origin shakes homes in south Texas
- Very rare meteor cluster recorded in Maranhão, Brazil
- Meteor fireball streaks across Australian skies
- Meteor or 'space junk'? Something broke apart in the sky over South Florida
- Mysterious bangs, flashes over NSW, Australia sky likely a meteor
- Astronomers spotted a car-size asteroid just hours before it exploded over Puerto Rico
- Mysterious 'loud boom' heard over small English town spooks residents
- What was that loud boom near Clemmons, North Carolina? No one knows
- Unexplained boom heard across Hamilton, Ontario remains a mystery
- Residents concerned after they hear, feel loud boom in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Nuke sensors detect asteroid explosion in the atmosphere over the Caribbean
- Meteor fireball sends shockwaves over Queensland, Australia
- Meteor fireball seen over Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New York and New Jersey
- Reports of meteor fireball seen over west Texas
- Meteor fireball flying over the Ozarks in Arkansas captured on skycam
- Meteor fireball seen flying over Flagstaff, Arizona
- Meteor fireball soars over Qujing in China's Yunnan province
- Feces & flesh-eating bacteria: Study reveals shocking levels of contamination at America's beaches
- Panic attacks and anxiety episodes may be linked to vitamin deficiencies
- From vaccines to statins: Dr. David Brownstein replies to fake news in JAMA Cardiology
- Motor neurone disease researchers find link to microbes in gut
- Kids with ADHD are being denied help by 'radical postmodernists'
- Move over Beyond & Impossible, the "Smart" burger is 100% beef
- Dr. Drew: Los Angeles facing an 'imminent outbreak' of bubonic plague
- SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Stress is Not the Best so Give it a Rest!
- It's the Insulin Resistance, Stupid: Part 2
- Europe faces 'looming syphilis epidemic' thanks to dating apps and reduced fear of HIV
- Transgender and non-binary autism link
- Processed foods are a much bigger health problem than we thought
- Impossible Burger goes after Regenerative meat rancher Will Harris
- Henry H. Bauer: All vaccines are not equally safe and effective
- The truth is that 'healthy' plant-based meats are just highly processed 'foods'
- Psychiatric diagnosis 'scientifically meaningless and not fit for purpose'
- Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to Goma, a large city and transport hub near Rwandan border
- "Throwing up blood": Georgia man, 31, becomes 13th US citizen to die on vacation in the Dominican Republic
- A bacterial invasion? People all over the US East Coast are suddenly being attacked by flesh-eating disease in 2019
- Are Statin makers eyeing the 'Anti-Vaxxer' censorship model?
- The comforting dreams and visions of the dying
- Understanding and appreciating science can actually boost faith in spirituality and God
- Cow hugging: More people are turning to a variety of animals for mental health
- Meditation: Wisdom in the silence
- Mindfulness meditation training may help people unlearn fearful responses
- Latest study shows trigger warnings might actually make things worse
- More anti-free will idiocy from Darwinist Jerry Coyne
- Swearing when hurt actually works, using F-word improves pain tolerance
- Why we see what we want to see: The neuropsychology of motivated perception
- Seneca on the antidote to anxiety
- The dancing species - how moving together in time helps make us human
- Nature heals: Viewing green spaces linked to more positive mindset and reduced cravings for harmful substances
- How to stop emotional eating as a coping mechanism
- Singing can create cohesion: Why the community that sings together stays together
- 'Real world' knowledge: Bring back home economics - our kids lack basic life skills
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: "Everybody Knows That!" - Mass Beliefs and the Ideas That Shape Them
- Cause of near-death experiences still unknown and controversial
- Brain-to-brain network established by researchers in the US
- New research shows racial bias has its roots in sensory perception
- The four stages of life and the search for meaning and purpose within each
- Another snake-like UFO spotted as mystery object 'emits energy beam' over Washington
- Plane passengers stunned as 'UFO splits into six pieces and vanishes in mid-air'
- Video shows mysterious lights in sky over Tucson, Arizona
- Navy source reveals that UFO sightings were 'daily occurrence' across multiple squadrons in 2014-15
- Mysterious floating White Orbs spotted in Kansas City sky
- Blackbird of Chernobyl: Staff claimed to have seen creepy Mothman-like creature before blast
- US senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
- David Paulides: 'Bow hunters are now being found in bizarre circumstances'
- 'Wow, what is that?' Navy pilots report Unexplained Flying Objects
- 'Look at it fly!': Navy pilots report seeing UFOs
- The Paranormal Roots of the Pentagon's UFO Program
- Famed UFO researcher, Stanton Friedman, dead at 84
- Churches combine forces in Rome to learn best exorcism practices because of rise in possession cases
- UFO researcher claims there's an underwater alien base under the Great Lakes
- Best of the Web: What The Hell Is Going On With UFOs And The Department Of Defense?
- 'Yeti' footprint photographed near Nepal Base Camp, says Indian Army
- 'UFO falls from sky' against double rainbow after being 'struck by lightning'
- Secret US aircraft or UFO? San Antonio woman films mysterious 'craft' flying over neighborhood
- Best of the Web: UK police: 'Drone' that shut down Gatwick Airport for days last December 'could see what was happening on runways, was eavesdropping on radio communications'
- From AAWSAP to AATIP: How the Pentagon's UFO program changed names, and focus
- 'Clever pooch': Mongrel unties & kidnaps pedigree dog left outside shop
- Moon Landing, 50th Anniversary of the Biggest Lie Ever Told?
- New study confirms all your opinions, world views, beliefs, are correct
- Lobstergate scandal! Israeli embassy caught in laughable kosher cover-up
- Lunatic stage: The first Democratic debate, summarized and translated
- California town accidentally misspells stop sign
- War looms between unstable, warmongering, rogue nation and Iran
- A nervous Obama personally thanks Trump for taking the blame for pesky photos of immigrant children in cages
- John Bolton urges military action against the Sun after uncovering evidence it has nuclear capabilities
- Hundreds attend wedding ceremony for two frogs in India
- Jonathan Pie: The race to number 10
- 'When has the government ever lied about attacks on ships in a gulf somewhere just to provoke war?' - John Bolton
- Flashback: 50-foot dead parrot placed in Potters Field Park as London celebrates Monty Python reunion
- Vatican announces new changes to the Lord's prayer
- Stunned Finnish Coast Guard spots '3-headed sea monster'... turns out to be a 'Russian yacht'
- Giant 'Yoshi the Fish' helps keep Indian beach clean
- Key asset: Police dog sniffs out car keys lost in woman's backyard
- Google deploys squads to destroy offensive books, videos, websites
- Curious shark checks out swimmer at Panama City, Florida beach
- Hillary refers to herself 106 times during high school graduation speech
5.3M earthquake in Athens, Greece, on 19 July 2019 topples a cross atop the 10th century Church of the Pantanassa
Quote of the Day
Truth wears no mask
Bows at no human Shrine
Seeks neither place nor applause
She only asks a hearing.
- Carl A. Wickland
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