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Popcorn Shorts for January, 2020

Posted on January 23, 2020 by tomdwyer

Cool stuff that’s too small for a big article Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really need a large article to explain them. From the sublime to … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 January, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters, Popcorn Shorts, Uncategorized | Tagged ai, climate lawsuit, education, environment, fossil fuels, global warming, national parks, subsidies, xenobots | Comments Off

Why We Needed A Science March In The First Place

Posted on April 28, 2017 by tomdwyer

Millions worldwide, and tens of thousands in Portland alone, took to the streets recently. Was it an anit-war protest, a tax resistance protest, a “throw the bums out” protest? No. Embarrassingly, these millions were in the streets to support science. … Continue reading →

Posted in 2017 April, News To Make You Furious, Newsletter Columns, Newsletters | Tagged america, cancer, committee on science space and technology, consensus, doubt, dumbing down, education, fracking, furious, global warming, im not a scientist but, incompetence, intellectualism, lying, march for science, national science budget, News To Make You Furious, objective, reality, science denal, scientific prostitutes, smoking, texas, texas railroad commission, tobacco, us house of representatives | Comments Off

News To Make You Furious- The Dumbing Down of America

Posted on August 25, 2016 by tomdwyer

Where does the word “idiot” come from? It goes back to the inventors of democracy, the Greeks, who coined the term to describe people who didn’t (or couldn’t) participate in public life. Athenian “idiots” lived under laws and rules written … Continue reading →