There are so many tragic aspects to life in today’s United States that it’s hard to name them all. For my money, one of the saddest elements to the American zeitgeist is its glorification of ignorance. Up until recently, if …
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How and Why We Conduct Science
To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.” In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted …
Old Houses
I subscribe to a social media group on old houses, a subject I adore. Some of these are so cheap you could buy them for what we’d pay for a year’s property tax on a place in California. Here’s a …
Generalism vs. Specialization
There is no doubt that our world would be a much better place to live if we used our resources to educate young people across a wider sphere of disciplines. Until the 17th or 18th Century, there was very little …
Iowa Farmers See Climate Change, Doubt It’s Human-Caused
Well, I’ve always said, if you want a comprehensive scientific analysis of something based on Newtonian mechanics, particle physics, thermodynamics, and inorganic chemistry, ask a guy with a high school education who grows wheat. I know how mean and condescending …
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Thorium: Coming Closer Every Day
Here’s a fabulous video in which the presenter offers a crash course on the particle physics associated with nuclear energy. Once this is under our belts, we’re in a position to understand the value of thorium, and essential design of …
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Happy Birthday to a Great Chemist (Or Should I Say Physicist?)
It’s the birthday of Ernest Rutherford, best known for presenting us with the first model of the atom that included electrons spinning around a tiny but relatively high-mass nucleus of the opposite charge. He won a Nobel Prize in chemistry …
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The Struggle for a Sustainable Energy Policy Is Played at a Very High Level
Below I’ve linked to a video gone viral that I wanted to share because it illustrates a phenomenon that we see all around us and, to some degree defines our civilization today. I call it: “The good are getting better,” …
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