Here’s a concept that purports to be a viable way of growing crops in a device that floats in salt water. As shown in this video, water naturally passes through a filter that traps the salt. Sorry, that’s not going …
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How Science Works
This is not a post on astronomy, but on science generally, and its importance to society. As suggested in the text at the bottom, though we knew that the Milky Way is a spiral-shaped galaxy, we didn’t know until recently …
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Dealing with the Pandemic Rationally
An apparently angry reader says: “PROMOTE THIS!!” I believe we can fulfill everyone’s objectives simultaneously, if we all acknowledge certain truths here: Yes, there is a 1.5% fatality rate, though many will suffer horribly, and a great number will live …
U.S. Pitiable on So Many Respects
New Zealand: Leadership based on science, full compliance from citizenry, all restrictions lifted as case loads vanish to zero United States: Sham leadership based on politics, rampant defiance from citizens/idiots, increasingly onerous restrictions as case loads soar Pathetic.
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In a World Where BS Runs Rampant, We Must Corroborate the Data We Receive
A reader sent me the meme here and comments: What if this is fake being fake and I too am fake? Life is so more confusing since the days before memes and robots, one of which I might be. Good …
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More Maskless Trump Supporters Testing Positive
Natural selection weeds out life forms ill-equipped for survival; this is how species evolve. Here we have a large group of “people” who lack both the intelligence and the compassion required to deal with the current pandemic, and Darwin’s theory …
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Update on Geoengineering
At left are a few thousand climate change mitigation advocates, gathered near the Eiffel Tower during a United Nations conference on the subject in 2015. How many of them support geoengineering, the concept of manipulating the Earth’s thermometer, perhaps by …
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Studying the Pandemic
I have an old friend who is heavy into conspiracy theories; he tends to be skeptical about anything he hears in the media and gloms onto sinister explanations that may be rumored. True to form, he thinks the pandemic was …
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Harvard, MIT Sue Trump Admin Over Student Visas
The Trump Administration has pulled the student visas from everyone whose classes are entirely taught online. If implemented, this would send thousands of our nation’s brightest young people out of the country. There are precisely two elements of reason that …
Americans Struggle To Deal With the Pandemic
Here’s another one in the category: “would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.” Actually, there are many adjectives that could be used to describe the curve on the right. Certainly, stupid works very well, but so do arrogant and selfish. …
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