American toddlers in the mid-1950s wore “baby shoes” like the pair shown here. It turned out that the theory that young feet needed external support in order to walk properly was later discredited. Yet, to have insinuated itself into our …
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Perhaps indeed. Keep in mind, however that voters in states that are economic and moral hellholes are almost completely unconcerned about “quality of life” as you and I might define it. They want their state white, Christian, deregulated, science-blind, and …
This is an interesting observation. One wonders about the future of monotheism in a world that is increasingly scientific, though barbaric at the same time. Personally, I don’t think that individual horrific periods of time, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, that …
Re: the meme here, it’s clear that we’ve lost a great deal of ground since 1993, as if we need another reminder. A cosmetologist told me today that vaccines are a hoax because people can still get COVID even after …
If and when we make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, we need to expect huge differences between the evolution of their civilization and that of our own. The meme here brings up an interesting idea: What if we the people demanded …
Good point being made here. It could be said that scientists and Republicans are the opposites of one another; in fact, most of the people in the U.S. who reject scientific evidence on things like climate change, vote counting, and …
No one expects professional football players to be atmospheric scientists, but can’t we hope that they’ll simply keep their mouths shut? If I tried to tell an elementary school child that our clean air is going to China and that …
I Thought Nothing Coming from Herschel Walker Would Surprise Me, Until …. Read More »
A friend is calling for President Joe Biden to be impeached, based on his failure to provide Americans with enough cheap energy. As source material, he cites this piece from Tucker Carlson. I reply:
How much value would it add to your life if you could use your phone to access the precise weather conditions at your home at any given time? Here’s a device that will set you back $329 that you can …
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: unfortunately this concept has been disregarded for the last couple of years. Obviously, science “happens” when people with the appropriate background and training call into question today’s beliefs and offer new hypotheses for …
