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In Promoting New Nuclear Power, Biden-Harris Back Fiction Over Science
In Promoting New Nuclear Power, Biden-Harris Back Fiction Over Science Nuclear fuel assemblies being inspected before entering a pressurized water reactor in the United States – Public Domain Although possibly a sad comment on his predecessors, incoming U.S. president, Joe Biden, is offering the most progressive climate policy so far of any who have previously […]
The Demon-Haunted World
THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD “We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Ha! It’s poetry in motion Now she’s making love to me The spheres are in commotion The elements in harmony She blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) And hit me with technology -Thomas Dolby, 1982 (She Blinded Me With Science) *** […]
Why Hypothesis is no longer about Discovery
Why Hypothesis is no longer about Discovery COMMENT: The old definition of the scientific method was “In a typical application of the scientific method, a researcher develops a hypothesis, tests it through various means, and then modifies the hypothesis on the basis of the outcome of the tests and experiments. The modified hypothesis is then retested, […]
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives A friend of mine quipped that it is one thing to talk about the end of modernism—as the two of us have been doing for over 25 years—and quite another to live through it. It might seem that such notions are far too abstract […]
Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate ‘Denial and Disinformation’
Delaware Just Sued 30 Fossil Fuel Companies and the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate ‘Denial and Disinformation’ Delaware, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, announced on Thursday, September 10 that it is taking dozens of major oil and gas companies including BP, Chevron, and ExxonMobil to court over the rising costs of climate impacts […]
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science
An alternative agriculturist’s guide to science To begin, just a heads up on a couple of new things on the site. First, I’ve posted on the My Book page advanced comments about my forthcoming book that have come in from a number of interesting thinkers. It’s nice to get such positive notices. Currently, I’m pretty busy gearing […]
Siberian Heat Wave Was Made 600x More Likely by the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say
Siberian Heat Wave Was Made 600x More Likely by the Climate Crisis, Scientists Say Scientists say that a record-breaking Arctic heat wave was made 600 times more likely by the man-made climate crisis. PBS NewsHour / YouTube The record-breaking heat in the Arctic saw temperatures soar above 100 degrees for the first time in recorded history. Now, a new […]
Too Much Faith in Models
Too Much Faith in Models Source: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Between 2 million and 3 million Americans will die! That was the prediction from “experts” at London’s Imperial College when COVID-19 began. They did also say if there was “social distancing of the whole population,” the death toll could be cut in half, but 1.1 million to 1.46 million […]
The Infodemic of Fake News in the Era of CoV-19
The Infodemic of Fake News in the Era of CoV-19 In Italy Facebook and Twitter are not the primary social media apps of Italians generally speaking. More than ever WhatsApp and Instagram are the mobile apps of choice for social media messaging and these apps have been the cause of many fake news stories where […]
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer and its active ingredient, glyphosate, caused Johnson to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma), attorney Robert Kennedy Jr said at the post-trial press conference: The corruption of science, the falsification of science, and we […]
Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash—it’s time to talk about near-term collapse
Our climate is like reckless banking before the crash—it’s time to talk about near-term collapse Our food, finance, and logistics systems are worryingly vulnerable to climate shocks, Aled Jones and Will Steffen write. These are not distant existential issues raised by uncertain and abstract models of future climatic risk. They are urgent questions that humanity […]
Imagination, STEM and Reading Lolita in Tehran
Imagination, STEM and Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, explains that the title of her book came from her diary in which she kept track of activities that were no longer allowed in post-revolutionary Iran, but which people engaged in as a form of resistance. One of those […]
The birds and the bees
The birds and the bees North America’s birds are dying at a rate that’s alarming ornithologists. Since the 1970s, the continent has lost 3 billion birds, nearly 30% of the total, and even common birds such as sparrows and blackbirds are in decline, U.S. and Canadian researchers report this week online in Science. The findings raise fears that […]
