A Brilliant College Student (shown below) Builds a Device To Rid The World of Mosquitoes. I like the claim here: “ridding the world of mosquitoes.” And I love how all these wonderful new devices are coming out of brilliant young …
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The rejection of science is a phenomenon that lies at the core of many of the most challenging issues in our world today. Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are impeding our efforts to control the pandemic. Congressional climate deniers are hampering our …
Carl Sagan died in 1996. Maybe it’s good that he couldn’t see what the United States looks like now. We don’t dabble in stupidity. We bathe in it. We elect it president. We have a cult of 74 million voters …
Life in the United States changed radically over the past few years. In particular, many Americans’ respect for science has been replaced with the conviction that scientists are corrupt, and have been cajoled into conspiring with the government to eliminate …
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Not surprisingly, Santa Barbara is home to a group called Friends of Carl Jung. Famous for his theories of the collective unconscious, myth, and the archetypes they contain, Jung is among the most important supporters of the idea that we …
A friend sent me an anti-vaxxer piece today, marvelling at how “well-researched” it was. Yes, it comprised 20 pages of “facts” surrounding big pharma, falsified test results, how vaccines have resulted in disease and death, etc. But where does all …
Glenn Doty notes: Thank God. This could not be more critical. The only other thing that I could have asked is that the former members of the board be fully and deeply audited and if any bribery occurred (almost certain), …
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Cruz isn’t an idiot, but he sure does pander to idiots. Another fine example of demand creating its own supply. As long as there are people stupid enough to believe this, there will be people like Cruz ready to feed …
Filed under the heading: “Would be funnier if it weren’t so tragic,” or “One reaps what one sows.” What we’ve sown is a terrible public educational system that, due to underfunding, is getting worse each year. What we’re reaping is …
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At left is a brief excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. Vonnegut doesn’t have quite the appeal to me that he held in my teens, but I still admire his sardonic wit, his observations that people are both stupid and …
