A photo from the 1940s. Holy cats. This doesn’t show a marvelous command of Newton’s Laws of Motion, does it? 300 years later, some of us seem to have a tough time predicting what will happen to that baby in …
Category: Renewables – Science
Quantum Mechanics Will Shake You Up
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1924, the principle on which solar PV is based. Yet it was really Max Planck who set the stage for this two full decades …
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Disinformation Can Be Deadly
As we look down the barrel of the first, and almost definitely not the last, of the variants of COVID-19, we are dealing with the very significant percentage of the U.S. population that refuses to get vaccinated, a phenomenon that …
Living in an Anti-Intellectual Culture
Dr. George Kiser, Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State made the comment at left. It’s a vicious cycle, in that anti-intellectualism emboldens ignorant people, whose statements tend to dominate social …
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For Some, Scientific Illiteracy is a Marketing Brand
From this: When it comes to dangerous misinformation about the pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is among the most ridiculous politicians in the country. It was just last week when the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was pushed over the edge by Johnson’s hostility …
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Home Composter
Here’s one of those kitchen appliances that turns table scraps into compost. Anyone who thinks there is a net environmental benefit to plugging in a heating element and running it for 4 – 20 hours is a moron. Here are …
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Biden Administration Embraces Science
No wonder Trump supporters are pulling their hair out when they see the progress the Biden administration is making. Scarcely a day passes without something good happening for the American people–anything from controlling the pandemic, to reducing cruelty to children, …
Truth and Politics Have Long Since Parted Ways
I wrote yesterday in my post Applying Logic To Politics that someone had just sent me a meme he’s published to the effect Biden is killing the economy, as evidenced by the rising unemployment numbers. But all unemployment numbers fell …
Applying Logic To Politics
Apparently, almost no Republicans are concerned about their party’s abrupt shift from conservatism to delusion. A friend and I talked about this the other day, during which discussion she said that progressives don’t have a lock on truth. This, of …
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Anti-Vaxxers and the Glorification of Stupidity
Here’s a Facebook post of an old friend. I guess that means she’s an anti-vaxxer. And probably believes the pandemic is a hoax? So sad. Even worse that she advertises it. It’s bad to be ignorant; it’s worse to be …
