I know I’ve mentioned that I tutor at the local schools and the junior college in Santa Barbara and that I, like anyone who’s had these experiences, learned quickly that there are effective and ineffective ways of getting certain concepts …
Category: Renewables – Science
Political Protest Marchers Have a Certain Look
As someone who marches in favor of things like science in policy-making, Black Lives Matter, women’s rights, banning new oil pipelines, or whatever, this made me smile. There really is a certain look that compatriots and I have, and, correspondingly, …
EPA Finalizes Rules to Limit Use of Science
From Ars Technica: With the days counting down to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration has been undertaking a series of actions that will make it more difficult for its replacements to reverse any of its policies …
Doing One’s Own “Research”
My cousin-in-law voted for Obama in ’08 and ’12. A few years later, after a short but steady diet of Fox News, she told my wife, “Obama is a terrorist,” and “Trump is making America great again.” My wife gently …
Marcus Aurelius, Stoic Philosopher: “Live a Good Life.”
At left we see why it’s hard to think of a figure in history more worthy of our admiration than Marcus Aurelius. The things we regret in life are not misfortunes, but our own failures to live up to the …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: U.S. Coal Consumption
Question: 2019 was the first year the U.S. consumed more renewable energy than coal since what year? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Hint: Burning wood was the main energy resource until the advent of electricity, at …
We Wish You a Happy New Year, But Caution You Not To Expect a Miracle
Those who don’t understand that January 1 represents nothing more than an arbitrary point in our Earth’s path as it revolves around the sun would do well to check out this video.
Tagged with: Earth's path
Politics Permeates Every Aspect of American Life
Politicization is the watchword of our American culture as we head into 2021. If something, regardless of how cut and dried, can take on a political spin, that’s exactly what will happen–as asinine as that may seem to outsiders.
Tagged with: climate change and epidemiology
Rapidly Degrading Plastic
I have to believe that the video here is BS, and that this plastic compound doesn’t degrade in water in five minutes. And even if I’m wrong, how useful is the product? Yes, we do have a problem with the …
Tagged with: Rapidly Degrading Plastic
Science Is Living on the Brink
From Historic Moments: This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. In 1922, at the University of Toronto, scientists went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Imagine a room full …
