Making the World Better with Chemistry?
Using chemistry to mask odors is one of the many tiny horrors of modern life. There are people who plug room “fresheners” into their outlets, so as to emit a gas that covers up the smell of mildew or whatever else is making their house smell like a men’s locker room or a bathroom at a bus station.
How about identifying the culprit and removing it? That, btw, is what deodorant does; it works by killing the bacteria whose metabolic processes give off foul smelling gases.
The pic here is what made me think of all this. Can you imagine being inside this guy’s car?
One of my favorite high school teachers, Joe Turk, makes this remark: Scientists allowed us to watch live (with a time delay caused by 40 million miles) a rover land on Mars. But some people won’t believe them about climate change.
The Dalai Lama says: Adopting a wider perspective includes working cooperatively with others. Crises that are global by nature, such as problems related to climate change or the modern economic structure, call for coordinated and concerted efforts among many people, with a sense of responsibility and commitment – this is more encompassing than any individual or personal issue. 
We’ve all seen the argument that favors replacing some of our kids’ high school classes with those covering some of the practical life skills discussed in the meme here. Some use sarcastic humor to make this point, e.g., “I’m glad I learned about parallelograms instead of how to do taxes. It’s really come in handy this parallelogram season.”
Of course, this is a bit passive-aggressive, but it’s funny at the same time. And let’s not forget that what makes humor work is the degree to which its concept approximates the truth.
Conservative news sources tell us that science isn’t always right, especially where the politics is concerned. Of course science can be wrong. It could be argued that it’s always wrong. Think of how little of what we “knew” about physics, chemistry, astronomy, cosmology, and biology 500 years ago that we still hold true today.
This isn’t stupidity. This is marketing. This woman was elected by people so ignorant and hateful they eat stuff like this up with a spoon. She’s in the business of making asinine statements that please morons. It’s her brand.
The photo here suggests that there is no way out but to back up. Perhaps that’s what we need to do here in the United States.
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door” is a phrase attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the late nineteenth century.
Here’s something I wrote a friend who happens to be a politically conservative atheist that I thought I’d share:
