This fellow claims that his plane’s propulsion mechanism consists of two wires that are charged to have a potential difference of 40K volts, the first of which ionizes nitrogen atoms, causing them to be strongly attracted to the second, via …
Category: Renewables – Science
America’s Cult of Ignorance
Illinois State Professor Emeritus George Kiser gave us the marvelous quote here. It’s not clear when he actually wrote this, but, since he’s obviously referring to the United States, it was probably fairly recently. Yes, as suggested below, America has …
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Ether
The meme here raises some interesting points, but it’s loaded with errors. The existence of ether was an assumption in pre-20th Century physics, before the nature of light was understood. It was believed that the propagation of light waves must …
Questioning the Science
The concept here is one we frequently hear from grocery store clerks, landscape architects, right-wing news anchors, and others whose lack of scientific training render them completely incapable of “questioning the science.” Btw, doesn’t Charles Schulz have any living descendants? …
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Event Planners Would Do Well To Avoid Venues in Moral Hellholes
I’m with you, pal. I used to attend the large tech conferences in Orlando. I wonder how many event organizers today are thinking: Ya know what? People of intelligence and compassion resent the living hell out of this state. Let’s …
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American Ignorance on Display
This guy makes a good point. What we have here is the Dunning-Kruger effect in spades. People who are completely ignorant of science don’t have the tools to know how ignorant they are.
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Cognitive Bias
In a recent post Why Do Americans Revel in Deceit? in which I suggested that we Americans need to start asking ourselves why we want to be led by overtly deceitful people. I wrote: I for one would rather elect …
Another Exoplanet (Earth-Size, Habitable Zone) Found
Every time we get another reminder that we may be on the cusp of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, a thought runs through my mind: It’s possible that these “people” evolved to be a lot like us, though …
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Those Who Reject Science
The meme here is great, but most of the people who reject the findings of science do so because they are on the receiving end of false data they believe to be scientifically valid. If you turn on Fox News …
Jesus Christ, the Greatest American of All-Time
A reader sent me this and notes: “The greatest #American of all-time Jesus Christ stands with the #truckers in #Ottawa #Canada against the #covid_19 #covid #vaccine.” I normally refrain from ridiculing others’ religious beliefs, but this calls for an exception, …
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