A learned economist said recently, “We know that COVID-19 is temporary, but we also know that it will cause permanent effects.” Interesting. It doesn’t seem certain that humankind will be able to put pandemics and their variants behind us anytime in …
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Two Viewpoints on Education
A reader sent me this, to which I respond: Keep in mind that there IS an alternative to school. It’s called social isolation, illiteracy, unemployability, impoverishment, and QAnon. Note that I didn’t say it was a VIABLE alternative.
Who Is This Dr. Fauci?
This is what the Trumpers/anti-vaxxers believe. Seems a bit unlikely to me.
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Anti-Vaxxers and Our Society
Here’s an anonymous free-form poem about the pandemic and the anti-vaxxers. Poignant, to say the very least. “We wanted to help people We were smart and driven We loved science and physiology, humans and disease So we made a commitment …
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Don’t Make the World an Even More Idiotic Place To Live
No one can accurately quantify the effect that sharing bull**** on Facebook has on the dumbing-down of humanity, but it must be considerable. This is all a part of the massive disappointment that we call life in America. We believed …
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Overall Educational Strategies
Modern education, at least as it exists in the United States, seems to have very few fans. The major line of criticism is that our schools force kids into ways of thinking that conform with what we want of them …
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An Antivaxxer By Any Other Name
This is from a Trump supporter reader, and no, it’s not a joke. You can call yourselves anything you want, but trust me, you’ll be known as antivaxxers forever more, and that moniker will be the very kindest term used. …
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Carl Sagan, Scientist and Humanitarian
I find Carl Sagan to be one of the most admirable characters in human history, and I certainly understand what he’s saying here. But I also understand that there are people on our only home who must be stopped from …
Some Beings Have a Native Understanding of Newtonian Mechanics, Others Don’t
I’ve been thrown off a horse twice, both after my asking him to canter. The more recent of the two happened when the animal took a few steps, but then halted abruptly and lowered his head, causing me to to …
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Science and God
This reminds me of a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and a televangelist. Tyson was asked, “So we don’t understand dark energy. Couldn’t that be God?” He replied, “If that’s the way you want to play it, sure. But just …
