No one denies that meat tastes (and smells) good. Anyone who will tell you, for instance, that frying bacon doesn’t smell incredibly good is lying. The problems are a) bacon is terrible for your health, b) animal husbandry is ruining …
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Trump’s Mesmerizing Command Over His Supporters
At left is a reference to Trump’s amazing ability to convince his supporters of things that couldn’t possibly be true. Has the price of gasoline really fallen below $2 per gallon? Well, we could take a short drive and look …
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Qualifications for Trump’s Cabinet
Many Americans are wondering about the content of the meme here. Why exactly are Trump’s picks for important governmental positions so blatantly disqualified? Take Pete Hegseth as an example. Did Trump choose him specifically because he’s an alcoholic and former …
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Did the Human Brain Evolve for All This?
The cartoonist here makes an excellent point. In geologic time, it was just a few minutes ago that we were living in tribes, eating mastodon meat, and sleeping in caves. A few seconds ago, we had the Spanish Inquisition and …
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Is Bernie Sanders Correct about What Americans Are Learning?
The author of the meme here writes: Bernie is right. Under Trump, Americans are relearning the lesson we learned about the oligarchy during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for …
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Sodium Ion Batteries: Vapor?
Sodium-ion batteries have been around for about 30 years, and there are people who believe that a handful of developers may be close to commercializing this class of technologies. That said, if you have to tell us that your investment …
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The Many Costs of Climate Change
Of course the Trump administration will do anything in its power to bury the discussion about climate change and its terrible costs. But in the case of the shut-down of NOAA, we’re talking about the hard, direct costs like rebuilding …
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Living in a Post-Truth World
The most tragic part of life in the United States is that about half of Americans have become indifferent to the truth of a certain statement, if it comes from Trump or one of his lackeys. If you or I …
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Sexuality Is Normally Politicized, But Here’s Some Science on the Matter for Those Who May Care
In a recent post about the meme at left, entitled It’s OK to be Ignorant, Just Keep it to Yourself, I wrote “If you agree, you’re ignorant when it comes to biology.” This type of stupidity has a fantastic level …
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Petitioning Trump on Clean Energy Is a Complete Waste of Time
These folks write: Clean Energy Powers Homes and Lowers Energy Bills in America. Encourage President Trump to support Clean Energy Tax Credits that Power America. When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke, but no, they’re totally …
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