Young folks may not get the reference here, as the American sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” aired in the late 1960s. This was a time before conspiracy theories and trickle-down economics. When we had a problem, we didn’t ask Donald Trump or …
Category: Renewables – Science
Conspiracy Theorists Surround Us
Quite a few of the people I grew up with in the suburbs of Philadelphia have turned out to be Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists; the meme here came from one of them. I understand that there are distortions in …
Scientific Literacy
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a pointed observation here, but I wonder how true it is. I grant that some of us need to be scientifically literate. Without that, our civilization could not keep up with things like vaccines against …
Most People Are “Other People”
I agree with what Oscar Wilde said here, and I freely admit that it fully applies to me. We have values that we derive largely from what we learn from other people. For my entire adult life, I’ve chosen to …
Did Fauci Set Up His Criminal Enterprise in the 1970s?
Yes, the right-wing narrative on Anthony Fauci does seem a bit odd, but these folks are not backing down. Fox News points out that Fauci has made a great deal of money over the years he’s been an advisor on …
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CO2 –> Fuels
These people’s message to potential investors: “There is no reason to drill when you can capture CO2 directly from the air.” The concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is ~400 ppm, or ~0.04%. This is either a scam or …
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Qatar’s Spinning Resort and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Really? Where does the energy come from to spin the resort? Someone thinks they’ll get more energy out than they put in? I’m reminded of a business plan for generating electricity using hydrokinetics I reviewed long ago, whose author told …
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Faith and Reason
Throughout the millennia, most religious texts have attempted to blend faith and reason. Thomas Aquinas, for example, set out to prove the existence of God using only the laws of logic that had been propounded by Aristotle roughly 1400 years …
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Thinking Rationally
This quote from Hippocrates reminds me of something astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said to an interviewer who asked him, “Well, if there is all this stuff in the universe that we don’t understand, why can’t that be God?” He replied, …
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More on the Future of Christianity
I mentioned my friend Glenn Doty, both a Christian and a chemist/physicist, in a recent post about the future of Christianity, in which I argued that religion is largely impervious to attacks from science, insofar as a significant percentage of …
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