All this is true, but sadly, these people occupy important positions in our government, and their decisions have disastrous effects on many millions of people, and, at a certain level, everyone on Earth. Their actions make the planet a more …
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New Google Earth Feature: Understanding Climate Change
A new feature of Google Earth enables the user to compare Earth’s surface in 1984 to what it looks like today. If you’re up for it, check out melting glaciers, disappearing forests, and land mass loss due to sea-level rise. …
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The U.S. Is Home to a Rarified World of High Quality Goods and Services
I learned during a Zoom meeting yesterday that the acceptance rate at Ivy League schools is now 3 – 5% (i.e., the rejection rate is as high as 97%). When you subtract out those who are admitted merely because their …
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Some Americans Don’t Think Too Clearly
Televangelist Pat Robertson makes a somewhat controversial statement here, doesn’t he? This is the level of thinking going on here in the good ol’ USA.
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The Problem Facing Environmentalists
Re: the meme here, that’s part of the problem, to be sure. But imagine that climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and other breakdowns in our environment were happening, say, three times faster than they now are, and middle-aged …
Predictions Are Hard To Make–Especially About the Future
Here’s a reminder that predicting the future is impossible. That huge mainframe computer was the state of the art in IT just 70 years ago. What the fellow is saying turns out to be perfectly true, but the point here …
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Life in 21st Century Politics Sure Is Complicated
Given all the political entities in the Middle East associated with Syria: The al-Assad government, the rebels, the Russians, the Kurds, the Shia, the Sunnis, Iran, al-Qaeda, and the Turks, it’s a virtual certainty that if you pick an enemy …
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What Makes People Kind?
I found the meme here interesting, but I disagree. Speaking for myself, I think most people who know me would say that I’m a kind person, but it’s not because I’ve been wronged; in fact, I can count on the …
We Are All Connected
Not surprisingly, Santa Barbara is home to a group called Friends of Carl Jung. Famous for his theories of the collective unconscious, myth, and the archetypes they contain, Jung is among the most important supporters of the idea that we …
Cognitive Biases and a General Failure To Think
A friend sent me an anti-vaxxer piece today, marvelling at how “well-researched” it was. Yes, it comprised 20 pages of “facts” surrounding big pharma, falsified test results, how vaccines have resulted in disease and death, etc. But where does all …
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