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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
- New fabrics grown in fermenting tanks could stop tiny plastic fibres polluting the world's oceans
- Leftist group #AbolishICE helped kill New York's Amazon HQ deal
- Trump tells Europe to take back ISIS fighters, warns they could be released as US pulls out of Syria
- Number of anchor babies in California is twice Wyoming's total population
- Mueller recommends Manafort serve at least 19 years in prison
- New research suggest common gut virus linked to coeliac disease
- Iran says suicide attack on Revolutionary Guards was 'planned and carried out from inside Pakistan'
- Ukraine's neo-Nazis suddenly a problem for western sponsors as their power grows
- Selective censorship? Twitter hides Iranian leader's post recalling Rushdie fatwa in rare policy move
- US reportedly making deals with Daesh to smuggle stolen gold from Syria
- Cancún shooting: five people gunned down in Mexico's resort city
- Chaotic scenes in Albania as opposition attempts to storm PM's residence over accusations of corruption
- Attacks on livestock increased: Return of wolves to Germany pits farmers against environmentalists
- Police say new evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated 'attack' on himself
- Palestinian teen dies after being hit with an Israeli gas canister
- Long live Putin: Haitian protesters call for Russian intervention against US-puppet run corrupt government
- West claims it wants a "normalization of relations" with Russia - Lavrov at Munich Security Conf
- North Macedonia police reportedly prevent ISIS-backer terrorist attack
- MI6 'predicts' defeat of ISIS could lead to resurgence of Al-Qaeda
- Trolling or mocking? Huge Russia flag mounted on Salisbury cathedral
- Trump tells Europe to take back ISIS fighters, warns they could be released as US pulls out of Syria
- Mueller recommends Manafort serve at least 19 years in prison
- Iran says suicide attack on Revolutionary Guards was 'planned and carried out from inside Pakistan'
- Ukraine's neo-Nazis suddenly a problem for western sponsors as their power grows
- Selective censorship? Twitter hides Iranian leader's post recalling Rushdie fatwa in rare policy move
- US reportedly making deals with Daesh to smuggle stolen gold from Syria
- Chaotic scenes in Albania as opposition attempts to storm PM's residence over accusations of corruption
- West claims it wants a "normalization of relations" with Russia - Lavrov at Munich Security Conf
- MI6 'predicts' defeat of ISIS could lead to resurgence of Al-Qaeda
- India refuses to subordinate to US bullying, vows to continue purchasing Venezuela's oil
- The real 'obscene masquerade' is how BBC depicted staged hospital scenes as proof of Douma chemical attack
- Merkel wants Russian gas but supports US sanctions, wants US to stay in Syria and Afghanistan to hold back Russia and Iran
- Taiwan's darkest military secrets revealed by Google Maps
- ISIS begin surrendering in eastern Syria as Trump claims 'virtually 100%' of territory in Iraq and Syria has been liberated
- Nolte: Networks refuse to cover Senate's 'no Russia collusion' report
- Syrian refugees "trapped" in "deplorable conditions" in US held area, Russia to open humanitarian corridors for their escape
- Netanyahu says "Poles cooperated with the Nazis" following a declaration that Poland also helped Jews
- Erdogan signs purchase of Russia's S-400s despite US threats to end Patriot and F-35 deals
- Maduro orders plans drawn up for troops at border with Colombia against US 'provocation'
- Yes, Moscow boosts western anti-imperialist voices. So what?
- Leftist group #AbolishICE helped kill New York's Amazon HQ deal
- Number of anchor babies in California is twice Wyoming's total population
- Cancún shooting: five people gunned down in Mexico's resort city
- Police say new evidence suggests Jussie Smollett orchestrated 'attack' on himself
- Palestinian teen dies after being hit with an Israeli gas canister
- Long live Putin: Haitian protesters call for Russian intervention against US-puppet run corrupt government
- North Macedonia police reportedly prevent ISIS-backer terrorist attack
- Trolling or mocking? Huge Russia flag mounted on Salisbury cathedral
- Houston cop lied about drug buy that led to a deadly no-knock raid
- NYC mayor tears into Bezos for betraying 'everyday people' with Amazon HQ cancellation
- Tim Ballard: I've fought sex trafficking at the border. This is why we need a wall
- Yellow Vests who have lost eyes, limbs demanding justice from Macron
- Amazon HQ decision a win for delusional far left Democrats, a loss for workers
- Grand opening of discount Russian food store sweeps Leipzig, Germany
- Jewish apocalyptic nonsense: Rabbi says Messiah will appear on Purim, just in time for Israeli elections
- Best of the Web: Parents of woman killed by 'poison used on Skripal' blame... UK govt, British media, but not Russia
- Brazilian Vogue editor resigns over slavery-evoking birthday photos
- Russia's Platov International Airport listed among the world's best
- Russia: Several floors collapse at St. Petersburg University, 85 people rescued
- Flashback: Social media is turning us into thoughtless political extremists
- Flashback Best of the Web: The Soviets Were Winning Their Afghan War Against US-backed Insurgency Until Gorbachev Pulled Them Out
- SOTT Focus: How US Hardliners Ensured Soviet Withdrawal Did Not Lead to Peace in Afghanistan
- Flashback Best of the Web: An Eccentric Tradition: The Paradox of 'Western Values'
- Dog burials were common in Neolithic north-eastern Iberia
- Scottish nuclear submarine collision, a cold war secret for 43 years
- 12th-century three-person toilet found in London's river Thames goes on display
- New book blames CIA operative Robert Maheu for murder of RFK - gets coverage in WaPo
- SOTT Focus: 1919-2019: UK Has Been Blackening Russia's Name For at Least 100 years
- Iguana-sized cousin of dinosaurs discovered in Antarctica
- 'History of the County of York ' tells of medieval nun who faked her own death to escape convent
- New research says stone megaliths was spread by a mysterious seafaring culture from northwest France
- Key to Hitler's success were attacks on capitalism that were considered 'progressive'
- Understanding the horrors of modern Africa via Indian Ocean slave trade, from clans to Al Shabab
- Just get over it: Asia rules
- The results of US 'regime change' in Latin America & the Caribbean
- Lost city discovered in South Africa
- Archaeologists puzzle over mystery woman in early Christian cemetery
- Denmark's government muddled the waters over Iraq invasion to fulfill US wishes
- Tomb of Persian king Darius yields new trilingual inscription: Persian, Elamite and Babylonian
- Mysterious stone structures discovered in Western Sahara
- New fabrics grown in fermenting tanks could stop tiny plastic fibres polluting the world's oceans
- New research suggest common gut virus linked to coeliac disease
- Mountains buried 400 miles underground 'could be bigger than Everest'
- Creators of AI text generator say it's too dangerous to release
- Can DNA be hacked? Yep!
- Pew survey reveals growing middle ground of opinions about evolution and creationism
- SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Darwinian Delusions: Why Darwin Is More Dangerous Than You Think
- Russia's new heavyweight drones
- Flashback: Dolphin sounds generate images, research team discovers
- Muons reveal the whopping voltages inside a thunderstorm
- Train wreck of a review: An in-depth response to Lenski et al. in Science
- Flashback: The case for plate tectonics, intelligent design - and how to think about minority science views
- Hydrogen peroxide may have played critical role in origin of life
- Best of the Web: Chelyabinsk to Cuba: The Meteor Connection
- Moscow cops may get AR-googles with automatic facial recognition
- Scientists: Chimp sign language & human communication follow the same rules
- Pied Piper device that lures tumors out of the brain hailed as a 'game changing' breakthrough
- New live-imaging technique reveals cellular repair mechanism for plugging leaky biological barrier
- New study demonstrates controllable electron flow in quantum wires
- rDNA's role in aging discovered
- Attacks on livestock increased: Return of wolves to Germany pits farmers against environmentalists
- Squaw Vallley in California sets February snowfall record before the month is over at 17 feet
- Storm snow totals surge to 5 feet at some Lake Tahoe area ski resorts in 48 hours
- Farmer snaps rare 'ghost apples' in Michigan orchard
- Ice Age Farmer Report: Retail food prices pop - Meat as taboo - Hawaiian snow - Decentralized food!
- Mudslide kills at least 57 gold miners in Liberia
- Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano lights up the night sky
- Signs and Portents: Calf born with two heads and two mouths in Himachal Pradesh, India
- At least 60 feared dead in mine flood after dam collapses following heavy rainfall in Zimbabwe (UPDATE)
- Woman injured in suspected wolf attack in Red Lake, Ontario
- Landslide triggered by heavy rain kills four people in Bogor, Indonesia
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record snowfall, cold and wind speed in Hawaii
- SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - January 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
- Mudslides, snow, and flash floods: An atmospheric river has soaked California
- Lake Tahoe ski resorts hit by another 3 feet of snow in 24 hours
- Lightning strikes kill at least 12 across Uttar Pradesh, India
- Black snow falls in Siberian region
- Australian river swells to 37 miles wide due to flooding, creates its own weather system
- Shallow 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits northern Mid-Atlantic Range
- Impressive gustnado forms in Guatemala
- 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
- Spate of mysterious booms rattle people from Arizona to New York
- Bright meteor fireball soars over Venezuela
- Hunt on for meteor fireball seen across Victoria, Australia
- Likely meteor fireball trail spotted in Colorado
- Mysterious booms reported in the Tucson, Arizona area
- Home surveillance camera captures mysterious boom in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Amazing meteor fireball over the Mediterranean Sea on 6th Feb
- Mysterious booms rock two counties in eastern North Carolina
- Meteor fireball flies over Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico
- Meteor fireball seen over England, Northern Ireland and Scotland
- Flashback Best of the Web: Meteor explodes above Cuba, shockwave shakes homes - 13 Feb 2013, same day as Chelyabinsk blast in Russia
- Best of the Web: Meteor EXPLODES, shatters windows in Pinar del Río, Cuba - after streaking over Florida Keys
- Bright meteor fireball seen over the province of Albacete, Spain
- Loud boom, rumble heard in Panama City Beach, Florida
- Mysterious boom rattles residents and homes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Corn derivatives lurk in many surprising places
- New study on Cannabis and Autism supports parents' longtime claims
- WHO, Pharma, Gates & Government: Who's calling the shots?
- Pink slime just reclassified as 'ground beef' by the USDA
- Deprescribing: Are you better off medication free?
- Cadets create indoor 'organic farm' inside shipping containers
- Drinking two or more diet beverages a day linked to high risk of stroke, heart attacks
- Do vaccines really prevent 2.5 million children from dying each year?
- Pharmaceuticals drive magnesium levels lower
- Quality Supplements: Is this the beginning of the end?
- Glyphosate found to raise the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41%
- Charged with neglect: Vegan parents almost starve their five-month-old son to death
- Facebook to silence 'anti-vaxxers': Social media giant says it may reduce or remove 'harmful posts' about vaccinations as WHO says misinformation is to blame for global surge in measles
- 5G wifi: A global health catastrophe in the making
- Protect Fido! Studies link canine cancers to lawn chemicals
- Flu shot sends man to hospital, unable to speak, walk, see or even BREATHE
- Doctors admit vaccines are harmful and turn our immune systems against us
- SOTT Focus: Objective: Health - Law or Flaw? Let's Talk About Abortion
- Monsanto Roundup attacks healthy gut bacteria, lawsuit says
- Los Angeles firefighters report neurological damage after cell tower installation near their station
- Silence is vital for our brains
- Train your mind to work smarter, not harder
- We could use new guidelines for working with men in therapy - just not the APA guidelines
- Dolly Parton gives the gift of literacy: A nonprofit library program of 100 million books
- Actively religious people are happier than those who don't participate in a faith
- The Transcendental Treasure of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Flies in The Face of Materialism And Postmodernism
- How can we unlearn the fear that affects us negatively?
- Study shows people are strongly influenced by gossip even when it is explicitly untrustworthy
- Benefits of garden-based learning for children
- The new APA guidelines: A symbolic castration of men?
- The 'silent treatment' is a sign of an unhealthy relationship
- Is DNA to blame? Should killers with a violence gene get lighter sentences?
- Yes, the rich and famous actually are quite narcissistic
- Proper breathing brings better health
- How to unwind your busy monkey mind
- 'We hear what we listen for' - The art of listening well
- The APA guidelines are wrong. It's ok to be stoic, competitive, dominant and aggressive - but don't take it to the extreme
- Flashback: Carl Sagan said 'reincarnation deserves serious study': Years later the results of those studies are in
- Why does it feel good to see someone fail?
- SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: You University: The Value and Art of Self-Education
- 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'
- UFO caught on camera in Kamloops, British Columbia
- Pilots report close encounter with a UFO off the coast of Ireland, or was it a meteorite?
- Fast moving flying saucer filmed over Lake Tahoe
- Bizarre case of Angelique, the electric poltergeist girl
- Mysterious green object spotted just above the surface of Jupiter
- The 'Green New Deal' carbon footprint reaches dangerous levels as reprints mounts
- Intruder sneaks into abandoned house to smoke pot...finds a tiger!
- 'No English' says AOC when asked for details of Green New deal
- Watch out for snoops! EU diplomats warned to stay out of pubs & cafes to avoid Russian & Chinese 'spies'
- Snowed-in Russian driver rescued by camel in unusual road video
- The vegan lobby - Meat-free diet for everyone
- Bomb de terre: WW1 grenade found in French potato shipment to Hong Kong
- Groundhog Day: Phil forecasts an early spring despite chilling polar vortex!
- Complete agreement from both sides: Endless foreign wars
- Delegates at Davos confirm we are all peasants!
- Snopes to debut a 'factually inaccurate but morally right' fact checking system
- The lighter side: Petrov & Boshirov's European adventures turned into board game in Russia
- Dog accidentally ran half-marathon after being let out for a pee - and she finished 7th!
- Are you or a loved one suffering from toxic masculinity? Know the warning signs
- Canadian intelligence reports claim Russia stealing magnetic North
- Brexit vote delayed till 30th of February announces May
- Finishing touches put on new breed of cat
- Ocasio-Cortez continues to claim she grew up on the streets of Mos Eisley
- Loud death threats bring Aussie cops to investigate!
- Kentucky cops publicly mourn the tragic loss of a Krispy Kreme donut truck
Quote of the Day
When we talk about compassion, we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoch
Recent Comments
Lies. If the MI6 is financed by the government, it can publicly only come to conclusions that are desired by the government.
Just a small step ahead from censorship is to put outright lies into peoples mouth.
"In Pursuit of Silence - A Documentary Film" A meditative feature film about the value of silence, our relationship with sound, and the impact of...
At the end of the day Germany "has to" send tanks to Ukraine. Well. They, if anyone, have experience in it.
Look at this development this way- America is Israel's poodle. India thinks Israel is a equal partner. Israel is gleeful to be the shadow policy...
