I agree with the author of the meme here, and I believe that if we were to follow the course he suggests we’d be a lot less steamed about these issues than we are now. Having said that, it appears …
Category: Renewables – Science
Weapons-Grade Stupidity
If you’re looking for reassurance that Americans are faring decently with their degraded education standards, the meme here is not for you. The consumption of grass by cows is not bad for the planet, but the destruction of the rainforests …
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Re-Inserting Music into Our Schools’ Curricula
Whenever I see examples of government waste, I’m reminded of the fact that, if we were able to eliminate or at least reduce that waste, we could put music back in our public schools. What a fantastic investment that would …
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Who Should Call the Shots in American Public Education?
At left is a brief discussion on the subject of public schooling, and, in particular, the question of who should make the decisions re: curricula. The author suggests that the “client” to be served by public education is not the …
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Is Certainty a Good Thing?
IMO, the content of the meme at left is one of the very best ideas ever propounded by humankind. It speaks to the subject of “cognitive biases,” a big deal nowadays. However, it’s been attributed to essentially everyone in history. …
Tagged with: Albert Einstein
Quantum Mechanics
I don’t think quantum mechanics is capable of being understood, not because it isn’t true, but because the human mind didn’t evolve in such a way to deal with things that fail to conform to our intuition of time and …
Space Migration
From the website Physics Is Fun: Stephen Hawking’s quote, “I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space,” underscores his belief in the existential importance of space exploration. He viewed humanity’s expansion into space as …
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What Is Physics?
I like to answer this question as follows: If it’s the study of anything that’s alive, or that’s ever been alive, that’s biology. If it’s the study of how matter interacts at the level of the electrons that surround the …
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Regarding the Great Aristotle
Saptadip Pramanik submits this question and asserts that the answer is Aristotle. Yes, he wrote “De Motu Animalia,” or, in English: “On the Motion of Animals.” But most of what he put forward there turned out to be simply incorrect. …
Let’s Apply a Little Thought Here
“Object permanence” is a term developmental psychology used to mean the point at which infants, usually at the age of perhaps six months, come to understand that the things around them like bottles, toys, and people don’t disappear simply because …
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