No one who understands the subject doubts that the growth of renewables is a good thing. Yet the eight billion people on this planet right now are increasingly hungry for energy, and most of them live in areas where their …
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On Heaven and Hell
Many of us had trouble with the concepts of heaven and hell since we were three or four years old. Is it plausible that a loving God sent the souls of everyone who lived before the resurrection of Christ, or …
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Rapidly Improving Technology
There is no doubt that humankind is the beneficiary of a great many breakthroughs in technology – that applies to medicine, IT, communications, and yes, environmental sustainability. In an interview I conducted for my third book “Renewable Energy – Following …
Why Don’t We Have Solar-Powered Cars?
Like a lot of things we’d like to have but can’t, it’s because of physics. When the sun is high in the sky on a sunny day, each square meter of the Earth’s surface below receives about 1000 Watts (1 …
Evidence and Logic
Here, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris explains why it’s useless to argue with the MAGA crowd.
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Astrophysics and the Future of Humanity
Most of what we know about astrophysics we learned over the past few decades, and that certainly includes the idea that everything we see around us came from stars that exploded billions of years ago. I believe that, within the …
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American Christianity on the Decline
A recent study from the Pew Research Center found that Christianity in America as a percentage of the total population is falling precipitously and could eventually vanish. I would submit the following: “Vanish” is a big word. The graph definitely …
Bachelor’s Degree in Two Years?
I understand why some people might see it this way, but I don’t. Here’s a bit of my reasoning. The point of a bachelor’s degree is to fashion oneself into a reasonably well educated person. That can’t be done in …
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How Much Understanding of Physics Is Required?
I would think that if I showed this to any high school kid, regardless of his prowess in science, he would understand that this simply isn’t going to work. The energy that goes into charging the battery has to come …
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Reaction to Bad Grammar
I know this feeling well. I often physically flinch when I scroll through my Facebook feed.
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