Category: Renewables – Science

I hope the author of the meme here doesn’t judge the value of his life by his success or failure on any of this. I don’t want to sound cynical, but there is no reason to believe humankind evolved here …

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What Lincoln wrote here is a much more eloquent statement of what I like to say about current-day Americans, i.e., OK, we’re stupid, but we’re not that stupid.  Every time I’ve gone down this line, I’ve eaten crow.  We live …

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As suggested at left, some folks believe that psychiatric drugs cause gun violence, reasoning that many shooters are, in fact, on such drugs. Apparently it doesn’t occur to them that anyone who commits such a crime is mentally ill, and …

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The anti-abortion folks have a ton of problems if they are to back up their beliefs with rational thought. Here’s one of them.

Unless you’re a QAnoner and you believe Bill Gates is trying to enslave the world’s population, you regard him as one of Earth’s most effective philanthropists, primarily for his work in infectious diseases. His current focus is helping our civilization …

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A Radiolab podcast that I happened across a few weeks ago presented the work of certain scientists to the effect that there are probably no overriding principles of order to the universe, and that, in general, “chaos reigns,” as they …

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It could be argued that the meme here is an attack on religion, and that’s partly true.  Yet what makes it so remarkable is the idea that there are no “universal truths.”  That’s quite a statement, when you think about …

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With each passing year, as the ignorance of the average American becomes ever more profound, products are being put on the market, designed to extract money from their wallets. For $329, you can have this “meticulously designed Tempest Weather System …

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Actually, let’s all think back on that.  Did any of us grow up disbelieving in science? We certainly all had people in our lives who sucked at science, but up until recently, they were thought of as merely stupid, and …

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If you have to believe something that isn’t founded in science, I suppose omnism is as good as anything. It certainly sounds better than nihilism, i.e., that we live meaningless lives, alone, surrounded by an icy cold universe that is …

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