Well, it’s real. It’s call piezoelectricity. It’s the phenomenon where certain materials generate an electric charge when subjected to mechanical stress. Now, of course, the stress caused by falling raindrops is extremely small, so we’re talking about amounts of electrical …
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Understanding High School Chemistry Can Help You Spot BS
The meme here is total BS. How do I know? CO2 is one of the products (stuff on the right side of the arrow) in CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O + energy, the combustion of methane, which is …
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What It Takes to be an Anti-Vaxxer (or Climate Denier, Flat-Earther, etc.)
The author of the meme here posits that narcissism is required to be an anti-vaxxer, because without it, people would simply listen to the scientists who have spent their lives studying the subject. True. But the same could be said …
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Trump and Other Pathological Liars
Trump isn’t the only pathological liar I’ve known in my life, and I’m sure most people can say that as well. What makes them “pathological?” They lie when there is no reason to, when there is nothing to be gained. Does …
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Many Americans Have Lost Their Capacity to Think
This guy doesn’t seem to remember that: Trump was the U.S. president for the first year of the COVID pandemic, and The United States is one of 206 sovereign nations on Earth, each of which had its own response. He …
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The Water-Powered Car
If you’re interested in explaining to someone that a “water-powered car” is theoretically impossible, you might want to start with the idea that water is the product of combusting hydrogen with oxygen or the use of hydrogen in a fuel-cell. …
Explaining Our Role in the Universe to Young People
At left, we have the words of American planetary scientist Dr. Carolyn Porco, who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. FWIW, I don’t …
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U.S. Voters “Dumb”
This guy has a point. All this stupidity wouldn’t have been possible as recently as 10 years ago.
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Two Genders?
Here’s something we see commonly on social media. Do you agree sir or madam, completely ignorant of basic biology though you may be, that there are only two genders? This is actually a very interesting topic among scientifically literate people, …
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The Unique Mind of Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller was a one-of-a-kind American intellectual: architect, engineer, and philosopher. As shown at left, he had what today might be considered something of a socialist, or perhaps Quaker or Buddhist perspective on life on planet Earth, urging us all …
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