As shown at left, scientists are under no obligation to respond to idiots.
Category: Renewables – Science
Helping People Learn Science
In their ad, the folks offering “The Most Complete Periodic Table Ever” claim that, if your kid is struggling with chemistry, she can improve with this product, which is essentially tons of useless information. Who discovered molybdenum? In what year? …
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Did Nothing Happen to the Conspiracy Theorists Who Refused the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Not exactly. Unvaccinated individuals face a significantly higher risk of severe COVID-19, including hospitalization, intensive care admission, and death, compared to vaccinated individuals. Studies show that unvaccinated people are roughly 11 to 15 times more likely to die from COVID-19, …
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A Thought from Maslow
Here’s “A thought for today,” from A-Word-A Day: A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. – Abraham …
The Scandinavians Are Quite Different from Us Americans
We often discuss the World Happiness Rankings, and how the Scandinavian countries are consistently at the top. It’s interesting, as I learned when I visited a customer’s home in Denmark, that kids don’t start school until they’re seven years old. …
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Science Is Not a Set of Facts; It’s a Process of Learning More About Our Universe
At left is an interesting thought exercise. Here’s everything I can think of, and it’s not much. When I was in elementary school in the early 1960s, it was believed that: The main types of rocks: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous, …
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Here’s a Renewable Energy Claim for Your Amusement
Ever heard of piezoelectricity, the generation of electric charge in solid materials—such as quartz, ceramics, and bone—in response to applied mechanical stress? It’s real, but it is very limited in scope, and thus it has zero potential application in our …
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Blaise Pascal, Renaissance Man–Literally
I have such respect for Pascal that I considered naming our son after him. (I thought “Pascal Shields” had a nice ring to it, but my wife wasn’t having it. Maybe if we lived in France?) Pascal made important contributions …
Another Exercise in the Difference Between Correlation and Causation
It appears that the idiot who composed the meme at left wants us to believe that the ACA is the reason that healthcare prices have risen. Not shortages of doctors and nurses? Not declining education and worsening diets? Not poverty? …
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American Ignorance Is Flourishing
For a while, it appeared that the United States might be progressing beyond its ignorant “tough guy” ethos of Dirty Harry and moving towards an understanding and implementation of science in our culture. Then Trump came along and gave his …
