Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
The following quote is attributed to Upton Sinclair. He was the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California during the Great Depression in 1934 and lost. He then published a book about the experience titled “I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked”. Various papers published exerts that included this now-famous quote … It Is Difficult to Get … Read more
Religious labels such as “Catholic” or “Atheist” can fool us into thinking we truly understand the people behind such terms: we really don’t
(The posting below is a writing experiment. I’m interleaving cold hard facts, the latest climate data, along with a metaphorical and totally fictitious micro-story about one lone remote cinema. Why? Data can be dull, it is an attempt to say something about how we as a species are not responding to the data in any … Read more
In a rapidly warming world, politicians pay lip service to addressing climate change. Meanwhile CO2 levels continue to climb ever upwards
Dr. Oz popped up to abuse a pre-print of a scientific paper purely for personal gain. His track record of bad advice is long established.
A great deal of excitement has been generated by the JWST launch. I’ve created a list of 5 surprising things about it that are not well known
