Category: Renewables – Science

Here’s an ad that reads: A political earthquake is coming to the USA and it has 18 wheels and 5 axles. Our Canadian brothers and sisters were the spark that will ignite the light of liberty in the hearts of …

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Of course, Charles Bukowsky was a poet and author, not a neuroscientist, but there is clearly some truth here. It’s how I often console intelligent people who are going through sad periods of their lives: the tears are the price …

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A significant portion of our society here in the United States has always reveled in ignorance; the current pro-Trump, anti-science, white power crowd didn’t just pop up out of the ground. Maybe the only difference today is that this group …

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Actually, you can ask any questions and consult any resources you like. The problem is that, given the sheer enormity of misinformation online, unless you happened to have training in whatever it is you’re researching, you’re more or less bound …

No One Is Stopping You From “Researching,” But It’s Important that You Know What That Means Read More »

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I grant that it’s not completely fair to look to Norway as an exemplar of what the United States should be doing re: taxation/wealth distribution, social services, and environmental responsibility.  The Norwegians have a small, homogeneous population, abundant clean energy …

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One has to think that the meme here is on point. How could the mass stupidity and hatred we have in the United States wind up in Canada if they didn’t learn it from their neighbors to the south?

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This is funny, until you think about it. Yes, we can remove the academics from school and replace them with practical or vocational studies like farming, carpentry, or, in this case, tax prep. But then we accelerate the dwindling spiral …

Who Needs Education? Read More »

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Those wishing to know why present-day Americans are so vehement in their rejection of science, consider this piece from Bertrand Russell: “It is science that has destroyed the belief in witchcraft, magic and sorcery. It is science that has made …

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Re: the question at left, Reader A replies: Maybe as an elective but not part of the main curriculum. Too few people use it. Reader B responds: Not true! MANY people use cursive writing! I know I still do. It …

What Are We Teaching Our Kids? Read More »

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It’s funny how people, I’m talking about good and intelligent people, persist in coming up with analogies re: regulations that help us deal with COVID.  The goal, of course, is to help selfish morons understand that their rights are limited …

Our Rights Have Limits, But That’s a Hard Concept To Communicate To Dullards Read More »

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