In fourth grade, at age 9, we learned how eclipses work, and why the garbage at left is impossible. How sad that, a generation or two later, we live among morons. As a clever reader notes: This world couldn’t get …
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DEI in Today’s Workplace
From Newsweek: Cracker Barrel has been targeted by a law firm seeking to defend President Donald Trump‘s policies amid allegations that the restaurant’s diversity drives are “discriminatory.” America First Legal (AFL) has called for an official probe into the Southern …
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You Can Own Shares in “The” Company Replacing Wood, But Think About this for a Second
I’m trying to guess how many replacements for wood we have around us. For decks alone, there are at least eight. We don’t have “a” company replacing wood as building materials; we have many dozens. If you’re an expert in …
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Why Are We Trifling about Trump’s Letters to HIs Friends?
Being on some criminal’s “list” and writing letters about “beautiful secrets” are not crimes. By contrast, statutory rape is a crime. How hard would it be to take this monster down for his actual crimes?
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The Trump Phenomenon Is So Weird
The strangest part about the Trump phenomenon in the United States is that, until very recently, this country had a profound reverence for its Founding Fathers and their perspective on how American government should function (see left).
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“We’re Supposed to Elect the Best of Us . . . .”
The rest of the globe still can’t believe this has happened to the United States. Sure, it’s the type of thing that happens in developing countries constantly, but not here, where until recently, we were the envy of most of …
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Gagging the Free Press
Trump and his administration are working hard to control what Americans see and hear; they’re suppressing independent journalism, the only profession that’s specifically mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. Destroying the free press is always among the first actions taken by …
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You Cannot . . . .
Of course you can. It’s done by many millions of Americans on a daily basis. We do all kinds of indefensibly stupid things, in case you haven’t noticed.
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Are Ocean Waves Now Powering Homes?
Yes, but it’s a very tiny number, and one that is extremely unlikely to go much higher. Ocean wave energy is a subset of hydrokinetics, and, just a few years ago, it seemed that some flavor of extracting energy from …
EPA Dismantles Its Scientific Research Arm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be reorganizing, eliminating its scientific division, known as the Office of Research and Development, a move that will affect the career paths of many hundreds of its scientists. This seems to follow the trend towards …
