I Don’t Believe (Most) Flat-Earthers Believe the Earth Is Flat
2018-05-31 – I don’t believe (most) flat-earthers believe the Earth is flat. (I qualify this with the word “most” because I’m sure you can find someone who is a true […]
Tag Archives: Science
How Do You Reason with the Anti-Religious
2018-05-10 – I have a number of friends (real and Facebook) who are anti-religion. I mean ANTI-RELIGION. They see religions as the main provocateurs of racial and ethnic strife, not […]
Ice Cream Is a Zero Sum Game
2018-02-19 – Four adult human beings live in my house full time. And human beings can’t live too long without ice cream. So when we bring ice cream into the […]
Why Don’t Humans Have Floppy Ears? Are We Not Tame?
2018-02-12 – My dog Lefty is a herding dog. He’s not aggressive unless you are a sheep (or a Canada goose, for some reason). Lefty is an Australian Shepherd. And, […]
May You Live to Be 120—But No Older
2018-01-29 – The billionaires now want to live forever. And some of them are apparently spending their fortunes to make it happen. I get where they are coming from, particularly […]
Sexual Predators Are Not “Monogamous”
2017-10-26 – In these days of #MeToo we’ve seen a lot of horrifying statistics about the numbers of women who have raped, sexually abused, and sexually harrassed. Charles Blow, one […]
Apocalyptic Math
2017-09-21 – Happy New Year! There’s a story going around that this will be the last one, however, for on Saturday the world is supposed to end. This is due […]
Many Paths to . . .
2017-08-24 – I’ve been mostly out of touch with the news this week. So I’d like to reflect on the people we met in Wyoming and Montana during and after […]
Total Solar Eclipse
2017-08-21 – wOw That’s my invented emoticon for today’s eclipse. The w’s symbolize the suns corona. The O is the shadow of the moon darkening the sun. wOw We saw […]
Multiple Images of a Solar Eclipse
2017-08-07 – It was probably 1994. I don’t know that for sure, but when I look for partial solar eclipses in the Chicago area, May 10, 1994. I was working […]
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