From senior energy analyst and social observer Glenn Doty: “The (Program for International Student Assessment) PISA results showed that 20 percent of American 15-year-olds don’t read as well as they should by age 10. Also, the results showed American performance …
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these refrigerator magnet games. Before the vast dumbing down of the United States, their subject matter was confined either to love and positive messaging, or to absolute silliness. Given the current …
Here’s a toy that is sold to people who don’t have a 6th-7th grade education in science and don’t realize that such a device does not conform to the laws of physics. The (manipulated) video shows the ball continuously falling …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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?
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 …
