Funny stuff. On top of everything else, she has “there” misspelled. While most people of science are non-religious, that’s not true of all. There are people who say that there is no conflict between faith and reason, though, frankly, it’s …
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According to Vanity Fair: Trump’s new pandemic adviser is pushing a “herd immunity” approach to the coronavirus—a stance that has concerned health experts and underscored White House officials’ use of the coronavirus crisis to win political influence. Scott Atlas, a …
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According to the American Energy Society, in 2019, there were 38 days when US utilities got more electricity from hydroelectric, wind and solar generation than from coal. Through June 2020, there were 122 days when hydro, wind and solar out-produced …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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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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 …
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 …
