From the incredible mind of Andy Borowitz: NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Determined to address the “No. 1 concern of the American people during the coronavirus crisis,” Fox News Channel announced on Thursday that it would air a three-part prime-time series …
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“We Need a Way for Trump To Resign”–Ahem
Sorry, but Trump won’t resign. Nobody knows what he’ll do, but facing the truth and acting like a rational human being simply won’t happen. Look at the behavior we’ve seen, perfectly consistent from the day he took office. If something …
Tagged with: coronavirus
Coronavirus in the News: How Far Does Freedom of Religion Extend?
“It’s not a concern,” Reverend Tony Spell said of the pandemic, following his service to a packed house of 1,700. “The virus, we believe, is politically motivated. We hold our religious rights dear and we are going to assemble no …
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Is Humankind Coming Together or Moving Further Apart?
It seems that our civilization’s response to the coronavirus is pulling us together. With each passing day, we see new examples of generosity between groups of people who previously had shared very little kinship. Perhaps we’ll look back on this …
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Tagged with: profound environment challenges
What “Civilization” Means
Check out this quick but deeply moving story about Margaret Mead whose message is To be civilized is to help other people. People a couple of generations ago would have shrugged this off. “Obviously,” they would have said. Now, the concept …
Taking Care of Ourselves
I strenuously object to rap “music,” with its all-to-common promotion of violence, hatred, and misogyny. That’s why I was so pleasantly surprised when I came across this, extolling the virtues of …. wait for it …. the cucumber. So clever, …
Tagged with: sustainable food
Not Sure Whether To Laugh or Cry
Here’s a directive from Norwegian University of Science and Technology to its students living abroad, especially if they happen to be in a “country with poorly developed health services and infrastructure and/or collective infrastructure, for example, the USA.” Now, their …
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Will the Hyperloop Ever Be Built, Given Current Events?
The video below is an explanation of the Hyperloop, the futuristic mode of transportation in which passengers climb into pods that travel at speeds of up to 700 MPH though tubes with very low air pressure. One can imagine that …
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Ocean Wave Power Generation
Here’s a short video on one of the many variations on the theme of converting the kinetic energy of ocean waves into electricity. A couple of points:
We’re Better Than This
Most of us are decent and kind people, yet we live in a society that increasingly takes a joke like this and turns it into real life: There are two people in a wood, and they run into a bear. …
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