The Changing Face of the Western Hemisphere
My favorite math teacher of all time posted the map below on social media.
Hope you enjoy.
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Climate Denial Requires Two Parts
There is a great deal of truth in the words at left. Yet any significant amount of climate change denial needs two components: Big Oil — and a huge population of uneducated people.
The whole deal is akin to Trumpism , which itself requires two related components: amoral rich people and a vast ocean of ignorance.
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The Role Chance Plays in Our Lives
For all those fans of NPR’s The Hidden Brain, here’s my very favorite episode.
How orderly are our lives, and the paths that our lives take? We like to think that we’re in control, but is it just simply an illusion?
For those wishing to explore these ideas, you’ve hit pure gold.
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Solar Thermal
In the year 2009, the year 2GreenEnergy was launched, the world of renewable energy had high hopes for the technology shown at left. At the time, solar thermal had a huge advantage over competitive approaches to clean power, in particular, the fact that the energy generated by the array was heat, and the storage of heat energy in huge vats of molten salt was extremely inexpensive, compared to the storage of electrical energy in batteries.
While the storage issue remains alive today, the cost of energy from solar PV and wind has sunk to the point that solar thermal is no longer competitive.
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Trump “Doubles Down” on Revolting Comments Following Air Disaster
One of the most remarkable aspects of Trump’s character is that he has zero sense of restraint, regardless of the amount of rebuke that is cast about him.
Will any of this shut him up? Of course not. Sullenberg simply gets added to the “enemies list.”
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Trump Places Blame, His Supporters Buy It 100%
With Trump it’s always a matter of “what you can get away with,” and with the MAGA base, that means pretty much anything.
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As the U.S. President Heaps Blame on Any and All, We Harken Back to Better Days
There was a time when the motto of the U.S. president was, “The Buck Stops Here.”
Those days seem long gone.
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Trump at His Best
Love the cartoon here.
Anyone who expects anything at all virtuous from this sociopath is a fool.
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Trump’s Failure to Think Logically Will Eventually Hit a Wall
There must be a limit as to how far this lunacy can go on.
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Our American Culture Makes Us More Stupid By the Day
Quick! Any fifth- or sixth-grade kid! Why can’t this be true?
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