Of all locations on the surface of the Earth, Australia is among the most vulnerable to the ravages of climate change, according to scientific reports.
Moreover, the intensity of the current fire season validates scientists’ predictions: Australia’s bush fires will become more frequent and more intense as climate change worsens. (more…)
There are dozens of different conjectures as to the cause of this retrograde era in the U.S. where white people seem to be doing things as despicable as anything they had done in the past.
To be sure, there’s nothing new about racial hatred and violence in this country; in fact, it could be argued that the exploitation of people of color is the actual brick and mortar, the real substance on which the American Empire was built: (more…)
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Yes, 2019 brought us great sadness in terms of environmental and humanitarian disasters, but it also packed a huge passel of joy for our Christmas stockings. In particular, the electric transportation space continued its expansion with the introduction of a bumper crop of cars that sport ranges over 200 miles, thus removing, or at least greatly reducing this key concern from the mind of prospective buyers.
This industry will soon reach an inflection point, at which the demand for gasoline- and diesel-powered cars will fall to the point that automakers begin a rapid phase-out in favor of EVs.
Speaking for myself, I’ve spent my last dime on internal combustion engines. When it’s time to lose my Prius, I’m following the mantra we hear so often today: “No plug, no deal.”
We commonly think of mathematics as an objective discipline. Regardless of one’s sexual turn-ons or aesthetic sensibilities of favorite novelists, 2 + 2 still equals 4. One might think this applies to political opinions, but here, things starts to get a bit twisted. (more…)
Just a bit more than half a century ago, the right wing here in the United States was represented by our popular Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who left us with this: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. (more…)
The pic here is a good example of what psychologists refer to as functional fixity. We so strongly assume the mistake is in the array of numbers that our minds are “fixed” and we find it difficult to look elsewhere.
The turning over of a new calendar year may be a good time for us to challenge our assumptions.
Hell, maybe Trump is a good and honest person and perpetual motion is possible. OK, let’s not get carried away.
Most of us don’t need an expert in crimes against humanity to tell us that what the United States has done to 5400 children and their parents on the southern border is disgraceful. For the rest of us, let me introduce Benjamin Ferencz.
This conduct is vile and heinous. It’s sickening.
From the New York Times: In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in policymaking while disrupting research projects nationwide. Experts say the effects may be felt for years. (more…)
What would the American political scene be like if more people had the financial resources and emotional bandwidth required to immerse themselves into it?
Think about this, for example: (more…)
New Zealand is the fifth most admired country on Earth (the list goes: Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands). It’s hard not to love a nation that seems to do everything right when it comes to taking care of its people and the planet as a whole. (more…)
