Saptadip Pramanik submits this question and asserts that the answer is Aristotle. Yes, he wrote “De Motu Animalia,” or, in English: “On the Motion of Animals.” But most of what he put forward there turned out to be simply incorrect. …
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Creating Massive Suffering with Misinformation
How much misery can be created by inventing stories about Haitians’ eating Ohioans’ pet dogs and cats? I don’t know, but it’s limited. Trying to convince folks that climate change is a hoax, on the other hand, is deliberately creating …
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What Does Team Trump Plan to Do About All the Money It Owes?
It’s very difficult to feel sympathy for those who get stung by Donald Trump and his well recognized habit of stiffing vendors. Imagine that you’re the mayor of Minneapolis, MN and the Trump team wants you to open up a …
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How Much, If at All, Do We Honestly Care about Our Children?
The author of the meme here has nailed something very important. It’s the reason people sound so selfish and stupid when they say something like, “Oh, I’m not interested in politics.” It’s just another way of of saying, “I don’t …
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Trump: “National Disgrace”
Perhaps the single strangest aspect to American political life today is that an entire party, one that not too long ago defined itself in terms of a strong military, now pays no attention to the observations of our top generals …
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Let’s Apply a Little Thought Here
“Object permanence” is a term developmental psychology used to mean the point at which infants, usually at the age of perhaps six months, come to understand that the things around them like bottles, toys, and people don’t disappear simply because …
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Are Celebrities Allowed to Speak?
Remarkably, there are people who believe that it’s wrong for our most visible artists and athletes to share their progressive political viewpoints. I use the word “remarkably” because generally, the folks most critical of, for instance, Taylor Swift, are staunch …
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Republicans Are Abandoning Trump
Those of us who were paying attention to the 2016 Republican debates that winnowed the field of GOP hopefuls will remember John Kasich, then governor of Ohio. He’s not unlike Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney in that he really doesn’t …
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The Vice Presidential Campaign
This lady brings up a good point here, but the answer to the question she poses is obvious: everyone is so wrapped up around the concept that Donald Trump may be re-elected that we have no mental bandwidth for anything …
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Playing Fast and Loose with the English Language
A reader asks: My wife just said about some left over green veggies “ Don’t worry about those, I will salad them.” Grounds for divorce? Ha! My interpretation here is that your wife regards the English language the same way …
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