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
- Rare tornado touches down near Richland, Washington
- M6.5 earthquake strikes in Idaho, largest in the state since 1983
- SOTT Focus: Coronavirus - Things You CANNOT Say About It
- Canadian senator calls for immediate release of inmates to curb COVID-19
- Coronavirus brings a 'Bretton Woods Moment'
- COVID-19: The fight for a cure - One gigantic Western Pharma rip-off that follows previously planned agendas
- Coronavirus: You have given your freedom away don't abandon critical thinking too
- Novel method discovers 139 new minor planets in our Solar System
- 'This is NUTS!' Russiagaters see red over Putin's planeload of corona-aid for Trump, queue to look gift-horse in the mouth
- Coup plan B! US tells Guaido he may renounce his Venezuela 'presidency' claim - but they're not giving up just yet
- Iran-Turkey gas pipeline stops functioning after 'terrorist' attack
- Best of the Web: Covid-19's meant to be a new Black Death, but in Britain no more people are dying than NORMAL. What does this say about the virus?
- Follow China, follow Russia, follow America - The politics of COVID-19 alternatives without choice
- Amazon worker fired after organizing strike over coronavirus response
- UK mood shifts after first week of lockdown as Brits blast 'overzealous' police
- Revealed: Monsanto downplayed risks of new crop system, were aware it would damage US farms
- US ban bites into Huawei's profits as company warns of potential Chinese retaliation
- SouthCom ups US military presence in Latin America due to China, Russia 'threats'; Brazil bows and obeys
- Syria: US supports terrorists holding hostages at Rukban Camp
- Washington renews 4 restrictions on Iran's nuclear program for 60 days
- SOTT Focus: Coronavirus - Things You CANNOT Say About It
- Coronavirus brings a 'Bretton Woods Moment'
- COVID-19: The fight for a cure - One gigantic Western Pharma rip-off that follows previously planned agendas
- 'This is NUTS!' Russiagaters see red over Putin's planeload of corona-aid for Trump, queue to look gift-horse in the mouth
- Coup plan B! US tells Guaido he may renounce his Venezuela 'presidency' claim - but they're not giving up just yet
- Iran-Turkey gas pipeline stops functioning after 'terrorist' attack
- Best of the Web: Covid-19's meant to be a new Black Death, but in Britain no more people are dying than NORMAL. What does this say about the virus?
- Follow China, follow Russia, follow America - The politics of COVID-19 alternatives without choice
- SouthCom ups US military presence in Latin America due to China, Russia 'threats'; Brazil bows and obeys
- Syria: US supports terrorists holding hostages at Rukban Camp
- Washington renews 4 restrictions on Iran's nuclear program for 60 days
- Tunisia, Libya: Mercenaries from Syria recruited to create terrorist enclaves
- Iran receives medical goods from European states in first INSTEX transaction
- 'A huge, timely BDS victory': Microsoft dumps AnyVision, Israeli tech firm spying on Palestinians
- Venezuela: Guaido subpoenaed 'among main perpetrators' for attempted coup, assassinations
- 'A voice of clarity'? Biden's podcast shadowed by sex assault charge, mental state, weird interviews
- Putchists lurk in the shadow of coronavirus
- Trump says Russia sent 'very, very large planeload' of supplies to US for Covid-19, not planning nationwide quarantine - WHO fear-mongers
- Covid-19 the new Black Death? British death rates are normal so what does that say about the virus?
- Is the US able to handle COVID-19? Global prospects hang on the question
- Canadian senator calls for immediate release of inmates to curb COVID-19
- Coronavirus: You have given your freedom away don't abandon critical thinking too
- Amazon worker fired after organizing strike over coronavirus response
- UK mood shifts after first week of lockdown as Brits blast 'overzealous' police
- Revealed: Monsanto downplayed risks of new crop system, were aware it would damage US farms
- US ban bites into Huawei's profits as company warns of potential Chinese retaliation
- Spain's minister says older people have been found 'dead and abandoned'
- Signed by the Governor: Idaho expands "Constitutional Carry" gun law
- Stocks sag in volatile trading as Dow heads for worst-ever first quarter
- A review of 'Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family'
- Instacart workers in US begin nationwide walkout as Whole Foods workers plan sickout Tuesday
- UK media generating confusion about death of Chloe Middleton: Coroner says 21-year-old did NOT 'die from Covid-19' - UPDATE: Guardian deletes article
- Megachurch pastor who promised to cure the US of coronavirus, arrested for service flouting social distancing
- 'Panic' among NHS staff with 25% off sick or isolating, fears over lack of protective equipment
- Store throws out $35,000 in food after woman coughs on it
- Manolis Glezos, a hero of the Greek resistance passes away
- Peter Hitchens: There's powerful evidence this great panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and our economy crippled
- SOTT Focus: 10 MORE Experts Criticising the Coronavirus Panic
- Yes, 12 world experts really did question the need for panic: Countering official claims of 'high COVID-19 mortality rates'
- Company charged millions for pro-America ads that never aired in Afghanistan, lawsuit alleges
- Flashback: Population control: The covert decades-long use of abortion-causing vaccines around the world
- Ancient bones reveal Irish are not Celts after all
- Scientists uncover faint stencils in Timor-Leste cave which sheds light into human colonisation of Australia
- 3,400-year-old Mesoamerican ball court sheds light on the mythic origins of the game
- The eugenicists were mostly the Woke people of their day
- The Black Death, social distancing and summer holidays
- Archaeologists call find at Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site 'another Newgrange'
- Prehistoric artifacts suggest a Neolithic Era independently developed in New Guinea
- Scientists agree: Younger Dryas impact event wiped out ancient civilization
- Pepe Escobar - A meeting of Chinese and Greek/Latin stoicism
- How the Soviet Union defeated a smallpox epidemic in a matter of 19 days
- General Smedley Butler and the 'Wall Street Putsch' against President Roosevelt revisited
- Global human genomes reveal rich genetic diversity shaped by complex history
- Oldest modern bird fossil discovered, nicknamed the 'wonderchicken'
- Chaco Canyon: The life and death of one of America's most mysterious trees
- The legend and the truth about St. Patrick's Day
- Long lost ancient Maya kingdom unearthed in a backyard in Mexico
- Best of the Web: Mysterious 25,000-year-old circular structure built from bones of 60 mammoths discovered in Russia's forest steppe
- Standing at the precipice of a financial collapse: Time for a 21st century Pecora commission
- Ancient Indonesian rock art discovered
- Novel method discovers 139 new minor planets in our Solar System
- Flashback: Controversial research that could make bird flu more risky poised to resume
- Last year, we finally photographed a black hole. What next?
- Best of the Web: How to understand - and report - figures for 'Covid deaths'
- Researchers create a 'funnel' of light
- DNA riddle: how cells access data from 'genetic cotton reels'
- Planetary defenders: Asteroid deflection code validated
- Has your brain evolved to hoard supplies and shame others for doing the same?
- Genomic studies yield more hints of higher-level order in our DNA
- Billion-year-old algae and the discovery of newer genes hint at land plants' origin
- Researchers take 'strange' glimpse into neutron stars and symmetry violation
- NASA data shows gas is leaking from Uranus
- 18-year-old blind pianist is so talented that scientists are studying his brain to learn why
- Tsunami-like rampaging quasars can rip their host galaxies to shreds, new study reveals
- Australia found a way to save water from plastic pollution and we can start doing the same
- Coronavirus and disease from outer space - Q & A with Dr. Wickramasinghe
- Sleep inconsistency may increase risk to cardiovascular health
- Scientists 'reset' the age of stem cells from a supercentenarian who lived to 114
- Finally, an origin-of-life scientist debates evolution skeptic James Tour
- Squids can edit their own genes
- Rare tornado touches down near Richland, Washington
- M6.5 earthquake strikes in Idaho, largest in the state since 1983
- 19 people killed in massive forest fire in southwestern China
- Torrential hailstorm causes icy flooding in southern Spain
- Massive hailstorm smashes hundreds of windows in Middelburg, South Africa
- Homes destroyed after floods and mudslides hit Huánuco, Peru
- Lightning bolt kills 6 farm workers in Maharashtra, India
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Twilight Zone city exodus nobody welcome
- Severe storms spawn '100-year flood' in Cleveland, Ohio
- Breathtaking circumhorizontal arc rainbow captured above Lake Sammamish, Washington
- Winter returns to Germany as snow falls across the country
- 7 killed by floods in northern Syria
- About 100 starlings found dead on road in Switzerland
- At least 17 reported tornadoes hit Central US during severe weather outbreak
- Hundreds of families displaced by flooding due to ongoing heavy rains in western Kenya
- Heavy rains bring flash flooding to Saudi Arabia
- With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles on course to lay SIXTY MILLION eggs this year
- Severe Spring frosts destroy crops across Europe
- Out-of-season snow falls in Tokyo, Japan
- 8 inches of overnight rainfall brings flash flooding to Kauai, Hawaii
- Best of the Web: Massive explosion leaves giant crater in Akure, Nigeria, dozens of buildings damaged - UPDATE: Expert suspects METEOR IMPACT
- Scientist claims massive crater in Akure, Nigeria caused by METEOR IMPACT
- Meteor fireball lit up the night skies over several US states
- New Jersey official believes loud noise, shaking was sonic boom
- Video captures meteor fireball streaking over Florida
- Meteor fireball filmed above Wigan, UK
- Fireball meteor seen over Seville in Andalucía, Spain
- Three fiery meteorites reportedly hit ground in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Oregon and SW Washington see at least 2 fireballs in night sky
- Meteor fireball seen over Ohio
- Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over the Netherlands and Belgium
- Spectacular daytime meteor fireball explodes over Croatia and Slovenia - Shockwave sets off earthquake detectors
- Reports of meteor fireball seen over Aberdeen, Scotland
- Best of the Web: Eerie green meteor fireball turns night into day over Tucson, Arizona
- Two meteor fireballs sighted across the skies of Spain's Andalucia - 3 in 4 days
- Bright meteor filmed over Andalusia, Spain
- A falling meteor fireball caught on camera in Russia's Karelia
- Bolide lights up night sky over Dominican Republic
- Huge meteor fireball filmed exploding over Alberta ski resort - 2nd for the province in 10 days
- Videos show meteor fireball exploding over central Mexico
- US average sleep time drops, increasing health risk
- Are Americans already too diseased to go back to work right now?
- Legal marijuana products too strong for pain relief
- Flashback: What doctors don't want you to know: Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in US
- SOTT Focus: Manipulated Covid-19 Numbers Are Fueling Hysteria and Lock Downs
- SOTT Focus: First, Do No Harm: If Primary Healthcare Remains Shut Down, Toll on Elderly Will be Worse Than COVID-19
- Benefits of massage therapy
- Manufactured pandemic: 'They're testing people for ANY strain of Coronavirus, not COVID-19 specifically' - US scientist
- Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 priorities: Therapeutics now or vaccines later?
- Best of the Web: New England Journal of Medicine: Coronavirus mortality rate may be much closer to a very bad flu
- Long-term analysis shows GM cotton no match for insects in India
- How Grandmother's gargling remedy could help abate the coronavirus
- Boost your immune system with herbs, food, supplements and lifestyle changes!
- This relaxation exercise can help you fall asleep in 60 seconds
- Barbara Loe Fisher: The National Plan to Vaccinate Every American
- US autism rates up 10 percent in new CDC report
- High salt diet weakens the immune system
- Bahrain, Belgium successfully treating coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine
- 'Utterly unreliable'! University of Oxford researchers stop relying on WHO for modeling data
- Not a surprise: Glyphosate-based herbicides are bad for your mental health
- Best of the Web: Memento mori, or love in the age of corona
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Hidden Psychological Depth of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
- People are now stocking Little Free Libraries with toilet paper and food for neighbors in need
- Musical scales are a prehistoric gift to the modern world
- Science review confirms yoga benefits your brain
- Free won't? How Libet's free will research is misrepresented
- How well do you know the back of your hand, really?
- Be conscious of what you are thinking
- For the full life experience, put down the devices and walk
- Best of the Web: Viktor Frankl: Saying Yes to Life in Difficult Times
- How nurturing hope can keep you healthier and happier
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Intentional Suffering: Paul and Gurdjieff on the True Meaning of Crucifixion
- People prone to disengage from difficult tasks and goals may experience greater cognitive decline after retirement
- Clash of perspectives on panpsychism: What it does—and does not—explain about consciousness
- Two revision strategies that can prepare you for an exam much better than restudying your notes
- The psychology behind why toilet paper, of all things, is the latest coronavirus panic buy
- 14th-century Italian advice on how to survive an epidemic
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: 'Adulthood of Spirit' - How To Leave Behind Childish Things And Become Spiritually Mature
- Flashback: Is self-control just empathy with your future self?
- Most parents do not successfully transmit their political values to their children, study finds
- Skinwalker Ranch team briefed the US government
- An alien invasion next?
- 'Ezekiel's Wheel' UFO 'bigger than Earth' spotted by viewers of NASA observation mission - UPDATE: It's just a reflection of Venus
- NASA officials 'baffled' after cameras catch UFO pacing ISS for over 20 minutes
- California couple missing for 8 days found alive, police call it 'a miracle'
- Best of the Web: Cosmic phenomenon? Strange waves pulse through cloud in skies over northwestern Syria
- Third Navy crew saw 2004 Nimitz UFO 'forming in front if them' - but were 'ordered to stay quiet'
- Two ring-shaped clouds appear above Russian city, then 'multiply' - UPDATE
- Inside Skinwalker Ranch, a paranormal hotbed of UFO research
- UFO filmed in skies over Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano seconds after eruption
- UK's RAF will unseal entire UFO archives, records to go online 'within first quarter of 2020'
- Proposed Scottish fish farm rejected - after campaigners warn fishermen could be lured to their deaths by fairies
- UFOpen for business: Britain's Royal Air Force to declassify X-Files kept in secret for years
- Canada's Nessie makes another appearance? Footage appears to capture legendary lake monster Ogopogo
- Ominous black ring-shaped 'evil-cloud' looming over Pakistan bewilders residents
- Top-Secret UFO files could 'gravely damage' US national security if released, Navy says
- Missing 411? Woman mysteriously leaves hotel room in middle of night, body found in lake days later
- Mysterious drone swarms appear nightly in US Midwest - no federal agency has an explanation
- Mysterious lights hovering over Mesa, Arizona puzzle residents
- Missing 411? Mystery deepens in death of Michigan mom Adrienne Quintal
- Satire? Britain's new Housing Minister, Liberty Snuff, addresses the nation
- Toilet paper crisis solved as government prints trillions of fresh, soft US dollar bills
- Washington accidentally shuts itself down with ban on non-essential businesses
- If we have to #StayAtHome, we'll take the house with us! Kyrgyzstan residents devise creative workaround for quarantine
- Attempted armed robbery in Nanaimo goes comically off the rails, one man charged
- Jonathan Pie: LOCKDOWN
- Cops take seized SUV for joyride; owner tracks car, locks them inside for 3 hrs
- Best Hits: Russian foreign minister Lavrov's greatest achievements and public gaffes as he turns 70
- Penguin-perks: Penguins take tour of Chicago aquarium during shutdown
- Needing some humor? Bizarre new species of shark spawns smorgasbord of snarky memes
- DNC completes assimilation process - Tulsi backs Biden
- What to do when you run out of toilet paper
- Florida police warn of rogue cow on the run: Loose since January, 'faster than it looks'
- Jonathan Pie: Coronavirus - Survival of the richest!
- Nation's nerds wake to utopia where sports is cancelled, everyone stays at home and social interaction is forbidden
- Disaster at rally as Biden smudges note on hand reading, 'you are Joe Biden and you are running for president'
- Homebound residents across Italy sing together to stave off virus lockdown blues
- Coronavirus - It's Deadlier Than You Thought
- Prince Andrew self-isolates from Epstein investigation says Royal correspondent
- Jarvis Dupont: I'm every womxn
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