It’s easy to see where Harrison Ford is coming from here. Personally, I’m not too concerned about the denial of science in its most visible forms, e.g., QAnon and the flat Earthers. Even the COVID and climate deniers don’t scare …
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That last paragraph might be a tad aggressive in a conversation with what you now know to be an omnipotent being. I agree with its content, but I would have kept those thoughts to myself.
What Aristotle said here is vitally important to a successful life. There is a problem, however, in that some things are objectively true and others objectively false. If you try to “be critical and evaluate what you believe in,” and …
From the late 19th Century until Einstein published his work on special relativity in 1905, a great number of scientists believed that physics had gotten to the point of a near complete understanding of the universe. This was probably due …
What was it, precisely, that brought us from where we were as few as ten years ago to where we are now? The universality of the Internet? The advent of Trump? How did we come to a point where a …
Here’s a fabulous article on hydrogen, which includes a graphic that lays out the many ways in which H2 is derived from natural and man-made processes. Spoiler: Nothing here varies from my findings on the subject, i.e., that hydrogen, though …
One of the many things we admire about Albert Einstein is his deep humanitarianism. When we think of other quotable people, perhaps Voltaire or Emerson, what we remember them for is their quotes, not their profound contribution in some other …
If you share my love of these dynamic bar charts that display statistics as they change over time, you’ll love this one on the number of speakers of the world’s most common languages from 1900 – 2022. English does very …
The meme here proves nothing to the Fox News audience base. If you believe there is a planetwide campaign to discredit Fox News, its executives and on-camera actors, it’s going to come as no surprise that they don’t win awards …
What the popular novelist and playwright Kurt Vonnegut wrote here is one interpretation of our need for religion, and I regard him as one of the most astute observers of human civilization. Yet I submit the the principal driver of …
