What was it, precisely, that brought us from where we were as few as ten years ago to where we are now? The universality of the Internet? The advent of Trump? How did we come to a point where a …
Category: Renewables – Science
The Use of Hydrogen in Decarbonizing Our Energy
Here’s a fabulous article on hydrogen, which includes a graphic that lays out the many ways in which H2 is derived from natural and man-made processes. Spoiler: Nothing here varies from my findings on the subject, i.e., that hydrogen, though …
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Remembering Einstein
One of the many things we admire about Albert Einstein is his deep humanitarianism. When we think of other quotable people, perhaps Voltaire or Emerson, what we remember them for is their quotes, not their profound contribution in some other …
Languages of the World
If you share my love of these dynamic bar charts that display statistics as they change over time, you’ll love this one on the number of speakers of the world’s most common languages from 1900 – 2022. English does very …
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Why Fox News Wins No Awards
The meme here proves nothing to the Fox News audience base. If you believe there is a planetwide campaign to discredit Fox News, its executives and on-camera actors, it’s going to come as no surprise that they don’t win awards …
Vonnegut on Religion
What the popular novelist and playwright Kurt Vonnegut wrote here is one interpretation of our need for religion, and I regard him as one of the most astute observers of human civilization. Yet I submit the the principal driver of …
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A Message from the Anti-Intellectuals
“When your education limits your imagination, it’s called indoctrination.” Of course, but why on Earth does education reduce one’s imagination? Having a better understanding of how the world works should enhance one’s creative capacities. This is the typical sour grapes …
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Improving Public Education Is Not for Everyone
What will that result in? More and better teachers, and more richly educated young people, stemming the tide of America’s increasing irrelevance in the global marketplace. That may sound noncontroversial, but it’s not. There are plenty of people who don’t …
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What We Say (and Don’t Say) to Pregnant Women
It’s one thing to be anti-abortion and another to be just plain stupid. When we learn that a woman is pregnant, do we congratulate her on her baby? If this is to be her first child, do we think of …
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Christianity in Decline
Here’s an interesting article on the decline of Christianity in the United States, in which the author speculates on the reasons for the erosion: the Cold War, 9/11, and the Internet. I would suggest that Americans’ spiking interest in politics …
