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. …
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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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Don’t Think Too Much
The cartoon here reminds me of these lines from St. Augustine’s Confessions, somewhere around 400 CE: What was God doing before he created the Earth? Some people say He was building hells for people who thought too much, but I …
What We Mean When We Say “Trust the Science”
At left are the words of the late British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson. Many of us harbor a misconception about science. We hear people say, “Trust the science,” as if that means trust the current set of results …
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Doing “Research”
Re: the meme here, the precise opposite is true. If you interview the president’s supporters and ask them if they “do research” into Trump’s actions and statements, almost all of them would say, “Of course! That’s why I trust him …
What We “Believe”
The point this fellow is making is the reason that it’s incorrect to say that one “believes” in anthropogenic global warming (AGW, aka climate change). We either understand science or we don’t. We have beliefs in things that are based on …
Preparing Ourselves for the Loss of the National Weather Service at the Hands of President Musk
One might think that alerting American citizens to impending life-threatening weather catastrophes would be something that would survive the “great purge” of the current administration. As shown at left, the ROI numbers are very strong, but, sorry, no. The U.S. …
