We have previously discussed what the Ancients can teach us. As it turns out, they can teach us much. But things get more dire by the day. Anyone and everyone can make a list of our pathologies. A week of reading the news shows us that as a polity, society, and culture we are in […]
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Read more...Part the First and Only on this Friday Afternoon: One More Revolution of the Accelerating Doom Loop of Science. The following is an update to our previous discussion earlier this week. As everyone should know by now, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has fired the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. […]
Read more...Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.
Read more...The American scientific community is in a difficult place. I started my first job in an academic research laboratory (funded by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the National Science Foundation) in 1975, which somehow was fifty years ago when I was the youngest person in the laboratory instead of the oldest. I have […]
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