According to NPR: The Trump administration has ordered companies to stop construction of a wind farm that’s being built off the coast of Rhode Island. The acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Matthew Giacona, wrote in a …
NPR: Trump Administration Halts Work on an Almost-finished Wind Farm Read More »
Re: the words at left, it depends on whom you ask. In fact, the only reason we’re destroying our planet is that there are plenty of people whose main interest is the profit associated with doing so.
In his heyday, John Cleese and his sardonic wit had great appeal, not only with the Brits, but even with Americans. It’s unclear how all this would play in today’s dumbed-down U.S. society.
Watching one’s country disintegrate is most certainly painful–if you’re an honest intellectual like David Brooks. The problem arises when we realize that, for every David Brooks, there are several hateful morons, and perhaps a few amoral rich Trump donors who …
The Loss of Our Nation’s Honor Is Devastating to Some, But Certainly Not All Read More »
Please take a moment and think about the graphic at left. If I showed you a six-year-old tuna whose heart had been beating continually since it was hatched, would you conclude that the energy in a live tuna heart is …
Is Ocean Current Energy Commercially Viable? Let’s Apply Some Logic Here Read More »
Counter-factualism is a huge part of life in the United States right now. That can mean re-writing the history that is (or was) on display in the Smithsonian Museum, climate change denialism, or the rejection of vaccine science. Most of …
“Knowledge of Immeasurable Value that Belongs to All of Us” Read More »
The words at left come from American musician Jack White. I would say that he’s mostly correct, though he omits an important fact: Where most Trump supporters are intellectually deficient, a significant number are simply morally defective and would happily …
Let’s Not Forget: There Are Two Varieties of Trump Supporters Read More »
I just met a very bright young chemical engineer who’s working on plastic containers that biodegrade at the optimum rate. Obviously, you can’t store milk in a bottle that disintegrates in a few days; it needs to last, say, at …
Of all the distasteful elements of American life today, perhaps the whitewashing of U.S. history is the most offensive. In all honesty, our reporting on the subject was never good. Unless you read Howard Zinn in school, which some students …
I had to laugh when I came across this meme. Does that woman look like a climate change denier from America’s great plains region, or what? It’s gratifying to know that the good people of Wyoming object to being lectured …
