When we think of Texas, we tend to call to mind tough-minded ranchers, pickup trucks with gun racks, cowboy boots, death penalty advocates, high school football as a virtual religion, and perhaps a few oil tycoons–each one a societal element …
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Texas Governor Removes All COVID-19 Restrictions–Deaths Stemming from Power Outages Weren’t Enough
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Why Liberals and Conservatives Can’t Change Each Other’s Minds
The chart below suggests that Republicans/conservatives perceive the world as a more threatening, less beautiful place than their counterparts. This was also the finding of a related study, one performed in a university that measured unconscious or pre-conscious thought. The …
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Dealing with the Cost of Energy
Here’s an article that begins: People often complain about both the high cost of energy and the fact that “they don’t have time to exercise.” This invention certainly solves both problems. Not exactly. Professional cyclists put out 200 – 300 Watts, …
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Making the World Better with Chemistry?
Using chemistry to mask odors is one of the many tiny horrors of modern life. There are people who plug room “fresheners” into their outlets, so as to emit a gas that covers up the smell of mildew or whatever …
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Science Isn’t Infallible, But It’s All We Have
Conservative news sources tell us that science isn’t always right, especially where the politics is concerned. Of course science can be wrong. It could be argued that it’s always wrong. Think of how little of what we “knew” about physics, …
Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Real and God Is Not a ‘Magician with a Magic Wand’
The post title above comes from this article, which is certainly interesting, though it seems to raise more questions than it answers. It appears the Pontiff believes that God created evolution and Big Bang, but in a way that isn’t …
Censorship in Academia
The conservative reader I wrote about here responded to my earlier post: The Democrats are destroying presenting two sides in academia, by banning conservative speakers. Well, first, as I mentioned, there is a difference between “conservative” opinions and language that …
“Fake” Meat?
Here’s an article from Dr. Vandana Shiva (pictured) called: Fake Food, Fake Meat: Big Food’s Desperate Attempt to Further the Industrialisation of Food, which begins: The ontology and ecology of food Food is not a commodity, it is not “stuff” …
To Create a Nation of Insanity, the First Casualty Must Be Truth
What four-star general, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell said here may sound trivial or obvious at first, but when we let it roll around in our heads for a few …
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Mass Exodus of Scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The most recent “Take a Cool Guess” called for readers to take a stab at the number of scientists who left the EPA during the Trump administration. Below is a breakdown of their fields of specialization. Will these folks be …
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