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At left is an interesting thought exercise. Here’s everything I can think of, and it’s not much. When I was in elementary school in the early...
In the copper-rich mountains of southeastern Ecuador, Shuar people are combining ancestral knowledge and modern science to protect their forest from a Canadian mining giant. Story...
For a while, it appeared that the United States might be progressing beyond its ignorant “tough guy” ethos of Dirty Harry and moving towards an understanding...
I agree with what Ricky Gervais says here; I would only add that there are dozens of ways religion impinges on others. In my view, the...
Controversial though it may be, exposing school kids to science has my approval. In 1971, one of our teachers took us down to the Schuylkill River...
If by “modernism” we mean further development of science and the use of the scientific method to find answers to life’s most persistent questions, then yes,...
Those who are involved in science are concerned that American society is threated by misinformation. Of course, MAGA crowd, the antivaxxers, the climate deniers, etc. believe...
During the lives of us Boomers, science has completely or virtually eliminated smallpox, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and whooping cough. Looks like the...
Learn new skills in maths, science, and data with Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/simonclark (use my link for a 20% discount!) Let’s talk about methane. Where it comes from,...
If I were to show this to a science classroom of high school students who have B-or-better grades, the majority of them would understand instantly that...
