What physicist Brian Greene says here is true. I would be shocked if more than 10% of high school seniors in this country could name a single living scientist.
Category: Renewables – Science
Whackos Are Free to Wield Their Ignorance
As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it, photos like the one here are evidence that we live in a country with a) free speech and b) failed education. Here, you’re free to believe in things like the flat Earth, chemtrails, …
Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, and Ultra-Right-Wing Lunacy
If you’re going to be a part of the cult that is far-right-wing U.S. politics, you need to buy into at least some part (preferably all) of the story surrounding this country’s “corrupt” reaction to COVID-19. This includes: Our government …
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SEC Approved Weakened Climate Rule
According to the Wall Street Journal, after two years of fierce lobbying against the SEC, the regulator has approved a rule that forces listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions, and reveal the risks their operations face from climate …
Bertrand Russell on Religion and Science
There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition. At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard …
Tagged with: religion and science
COVID Vaccinations
The chalk drawing photographed here is simply incorrect. You can’t tell me that when an anti-vaxxer is hospitalized, on a ventilator, dying an agonizing death, gasping for oxygen and slowly drowning in his own blood and pus, that a nagging …
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How All This Stuff Got Here
This is very beautiful, but let’s not forget that it can be taken several steps backwards. All the material in the recycled butterflies, wolf fur, etc. that is now your body came from the explosion of now-dead stars billions of …
Religion, Science, and the Future of the Two
At left is what Bertrand Russell said perhaps a century ago. My take on this may be slightly different, in that I call religion our prescientific understanding of the universe. Human beings with our newly formed big brains were called …
The Work of the Devil
Even as a small boy, I was a tough sell on religion, but the concept of a Devil whose work is to pull us away from Christ is arguably more ludicrous. Of course, I don’t speak for everyone on this point. …
Socrates on Teaching and Thinking
Who doesn’t completely admire this man, if for only his sheer humility? As a tutor, I essentially teach. If I have a kid in front of me who wants to learn math/science or any of the humanities, I’m pretty effective. …
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