Is there a correlation between the tantrums of infants and the atrocious behavior these people display when they become adults? Probably. This, I’m sure, is more of a joke than anything, but it does shed light on the terrible conduct …
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In Science, Pride Goeth Before a Fall
Imagine you’re a physicist in the late 19th Century. Everything pertaining to mechanics, electrodynamics, and the wave theory of light is already in the bag. Einstein is still working in a patent office in Switzerland. The idea that light can …
Tucker Carlson on Vaccinations: Your Freedom Is at Stake
We live in a time in which unfettered greed has driven us to places of unimaginable cruelty. Tucker Carlson is the Fox “News” anchor with the highest ratings of all these pigs, and thus brings in the most ad revenue. …
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COVID-19 Vaccinations
Here’s a conversation I had with an elderly friend that I thought I’d share. Friend: When are you going to get vaccine booster? Me: I’m not sure. Whenever I’m told to. Is there any other way to proceed? I mean, …
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Another Post on Quantum Physics
It’s hard to argue against the father of our understanding of the atom, Niels Bohr, but I’ve always been taken by what the more recent physicist Richard Feynman said, “If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don’t understand …
Quantum Physics is Befuddling
This made me smile. Most of the physics that have been developed in the last 120 years is counterintuitive, to put it mildly. This is a reminder that the human mind did not evolve so as to comprehend the secrets …
Neat Piece on Perpetual Motion
Many readers that have seen bogus examples of perpetual motion machines may recall the device shown at left. In the video linked above is something that looks similar; masses (of children) slide back and forth, closer to and farther away …
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Virginia Unlikely To Elect a Trumper
Virginia is one of those states that is fairly close to being evenly divided between urban professionals, many of whom commute to the capital, and under-educated rural folks. Fortunately, the former population is a bit larger, and, as time passes …
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Parents’ Rights and Duties
The meme here, obviously, is from an anti-vaxxer. My response: Parents who believe they, rather than doctors, are the authority on medical matters should not have had kids in the first place, and run the risk of criminal prosecution if …
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What Actually Happened To Science?
Social media was certainly a big factor in beginning and expanding the anti-science “movement,” if you will. But the election of Donald Trump had even more impact. All at once we found ourselves in a world in which the concept …
