Here’s a product for people with virtually no understanding of science. The efficiency of electric heaters is very close to 100%. If I were Elon Musk, I’d have a team of people hunting down criminals who were using my likeness …
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Tocqueville wrote this in the early 19th Century, and there is no doubt that he made an excellent point, given the times. Had he been alive today, however, I doubt he’d be singing the same tune. Technology, while it is …
Carl Sagan left us in 1996. If this is what he thought while he was still on this planet, it’s hard to imagine the pity and contempt with which he would regard this nation in its current mentally defective condition.
Among the many reasons that American society is having trouble functioning right now is that many of its members don’t think very well. Take the meme here. Are proponents of a woman’s right to choose abortion saying that pregnancy is …
Twain was a humorist and not an anthropologist, and thus we can accept what he said here with a grin, even though it’s clearly untrue. Religion was one of humankind’s first attempts to explain natural phenomena, before science came along …
There are a great number of theories as to why human civilization has as yet been unable to make contact with other forms of intelligent life. Sci-fi legend and public intellectual Arthur C. Clark offers a totally plausible suggestion here. …
Thom: What you say here is fine, but keep in mind that virtually none of the Americans who admire today’s GOP has lived a year in Germany. Most of them couldn’t find Germany on a map. In general, you’re talking …
I note all the “amens” in response to this post on social media. I grant crackpots, religious or otherwise, the right to refuse to comply with the dictates of the scientific community in the event of a horrible spike in …
This certification should be provided for: rejecting science, and, in so doing, raising hospitalization rates, while lowering one’s life expectancies and that of everyone coming into contact.
The video here actually isn’t a scam; the machine and its user will generate some electrical energy, though the title is a bit misleading; the energy doesn’t come from the magnet. In the 1830s, Michael Faraday discovered the relationship between …
