If you’ve ever wondered how the physicists who have been studying how to extract the most energy out of the wind for the last three hundred years, whose work has been greatly accelerated in the last few decades, these people …
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Whenever We See an Artist’s Rendering, Rather than a Photograph of a Working Prototype, We Need to Wonder
This artist’s rendering at left suggests a device that its proponents say will, one day, capture CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere, and mitigate the growing threat of climate change. But let’s think about this for a moment. The concentration of …
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Newly Elected Argentine President Will Push Right-Wing Agenda
I’m sorry to report that “the Donald Trump of Argentina” Javier Milei has won his country’s presidential election. Milei has all the earmarks of the world’s rising numbers of extreme right-wing leaders. He believes that climate change is a hoax …
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Young Voters
Here’s an article that says that, among young voters, Trump leads Biden in a hypothetical election between the two. I’m suspicious. Yes, I know that our educational system is failing, and that young people are less altruistic than they were …
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Trump Must Survive
Re: the meme here, Donna Schlesak writes: I’ve never wished anyone dead and I’m opposed to the death penalty, but I can’t say I’d be sorry. Imagine if Hitler died years before he did. So many millions wouldn’t have lost …
Lock Him Up?
Fistfights at sporting events erupt spontaneously–even in the absence of provocative statements like the one this fellow is making. Now, this is a baseball game, so perhaps a brawl is a bit less likely here than had it been football …
CO2 –> Fuels
These people’s message to potential investors: “There is no reason to drill when you can capture CO2 directly from the air.” The concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is ~400 ppm, or ~0.04%. This is either a scam or …
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Ron DeSantis: Our Country Is in Trouble
I don’t think anyone of any political philosophy disputes that the United States is in trouble. When Donald Trump, facing 91 felony charges from four separate indictments, is the runaway leader in one of two parties, that qualifies as trouble …
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Monica Crowley Is Hawking “Alternative Facts”
Here we have the words of Monica Crowley, political commentator, lobbyist, and Fox News contributor. It seems, however, that she faces a few problems with her remarks here: The whole world watched the insurrection on live television. The U.S. House …
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Celebrating Noam Chomsky
MIT linguistics professor emeritus Noam Chomsky belongs in the same class as Bertrand Russell: a small group of extremely intelligent people whose contribution to society is a blend of a penetrating understanding of the world, married with a profoundly humanistic …
