Here’s Lucy Biggers, social media powerhouse, explaining how solar and wind energy actually aren’t free, because they require materials that need to be mined from the Earth. Yes, Lucy. I think most of us already knew that. It’s hard for …
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Once one understands that science is not a body of truths, but our best method of finding truth, one realizes that there is no reason to “question” it. For a moment, think of the most rapidly evolving arenas within the …
As shown at left, scientists are under no obligation to respond to idiots.
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? …
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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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 …
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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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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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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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 …
