Trump’s approval rating is 42.5%, meaning that almost half of America’s parents are likely to put across a favorable image of the former president to their children in a homeschool setting. Now, consider the other option: your kid is in …
Category: Renewables – Science
Math and Physics
I’m occasionally asked if one can understand physics without math. If this is taken to mean understanding physics entirely without math, the answer is No. That said, first year algebra will get you through a base-level comprehension of mechanics and …
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Education Versus Catastrophe
This is from early sci-fi author H. G. Wells, written just over a century ago. If it was true then, we can only imagine its value today, a time in which conspiracy theories abound, and tens of millions of American …
Tagged with: election rigged against Trump
Revering Our Scientists
What physicist Brian Greene says here is true. I would be shocked if more than 10% of high school seniors in this country could name a single living scientist.
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Whackos Are Free to Wield Their Ignorance
As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it, photos like the one here are evidence that we live in a country with a) free speech and b) failed education. Here, you’re free to believe in things like the flat Earth, chemtrails, …
Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, and Ultra-Right-Wing Lunacy
If you’re going to be a part of the cult that is far-right-wing U.S. politics, you need to buy into at least some part (preferably all) of the story surrounding this country’s “corrupt” reaction to COVID-19. This includes: Our government …
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SEC Approved Weakened Climate Rule
According to the Wall Street Journal, after two years of fierce lobbying against the SEC, the regulator has approved a rule that forces listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions, and reveal the risks their operations face from climate …
Bertrand Russell on Religion and Science
There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition. At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard …
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COVID Vaccinations
The chalk drawing photographed here is simply incorrect. You can’t tell me that when an anti-vaxxer is hospitalized, on a ventilator, dying an agonizing death, gasping for oxygen and slowly drowning in his own blood and pus, that a nagging …
Tagged with: Qanon
How All This Stuff Got Here
This is very beautiful, but let’s not forget that it can be taken several steps backwards. All the material in the recycled butterflies, wolf fur, etc. that is now your body came from the explosion of now-dead stars billions of …
