How much value would it add to your life if you could use your phone to access the precise weather conditions at your home at any given time? Here’s a device that will set you back $329 that you can …
Category: Renewables – Science
Questioning the Science
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: unfortunately this concept has been disregarded for the last couple of years. Obviously, science “happens” when people with the appropriate background and training call into question today’s beliefs and offer new hypotheses for …
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What Makes Our Life Meaningful?
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 …
Judging American Intelligence
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 …
Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence
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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Banning Abortion Is Problematic To People of Reason
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.
Avoiding the Next Pandemic
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 …
Order vs. Chaos
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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Science Is Beautiful
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 …
New Product Available, Offered To Morons Only
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 …
