Here’s a short video worth checking out. The speaker notes that there is a universal phenomenon that occurs to people who leave the Earth and have the opportunity to see our home from space. To a person, they report wondering …
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As suggested at left, of all the damage Trump has inflicted on American society, it’s possible that the greatest harm has been his bizarre, inexplicable ability to turn truth on its head. Here’s an exercise: think back to any close …
I just read that people who live at the beach are happier than the rest of us. Hmmm. Could the fact that the guy’s house is worth a fortune, enabling him to travel the world, play a role? That beach …
Where will the energy come from that will make this building spin? Strangely, they don’t say.
Reader A asks: How did we discover that the Earth is round? Reader B: Probably fishermen who saw the top of masts coming first when approaching other nearby ships. Me: An ancient Greek mathematician (Pythagoras? Euclid?) asked a friend who …
This from physicist Brian Greene. Sadly, very few young people can name (let alone look up to) a single living scientist. Ultimately, this is due to our society’s fixation on money. Rock stars and football quarterbacks enjoy vast media exposure …
In response to the reader who submitted the meme here, another fellow notes: (The existence of) God is an unfalsifiable proposition, meaning that science can’t say anything positive or negative about it. You’re welcome to believe whatever you want, but …
Young folks may not get the reference here, as the American sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” aired in the late 1960s. This was a time before conspiracy theories and trickle-down economics. When we had a problem, we didn’t ask Donald Trump or …
Quite a few of the people I grew up with in the suburbs of Philadelphia have turned out to be Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists; the meme here came from one of them. I understand that there are distortions in …
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pointed observation here, but I wonder how true it is. I grant that some of us need to be scientifically literate. Without that, our civilization could not keep up with things like vaccines against …
