Science & Society

For Young Children Etc: "Doomsday Clock" Announcement Doesn't Mean World Will Blow Up In 2 Mins 30 Secs

I have written this for young children and others scared the world is about to blow up. If you read the news announcements today, you can understand why they seem to say this. Take them literally and that is exactly what they say.  Summary: They have just ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 27 2017 - 12:23am

Scientists For Donald Trump Not “Scientists” Against Donald Trump

Y es of course it is damn scary when once ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 30 2017 - 10:52am

Google, Facebook, Who's Leading In Orwellian Dystopias Of The 21st Century?

Fictional metaphors matter, and in the battle to safeguard our civil liberties few metaphors matter more than George Orwell’s 1984. Although first published almost 70 years ago, the lasting salience of this most archetypal dystopia is undeniable. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 3 2017 - 9:40am

The Many Ways Farmers Control Pests

The post originally appeared on the  Putting Pesticides in Perspective (PPIP) Blog  on 2/7/17 on which there are also 6 related sub-posts ...

Article - Steve Savage - Feb 7 2017 - 4:23pm

Rational Suckers

Why do people skip queues, cause traffic jams, and create delays for everyone? Who are these misbehaving creatures lacking basic cooperation skills? Are they really all that different from you? Are you perhaps one of them? ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Feb 8 2017 - 4:53am

Advanced Racism For Dr Duke And Prof Slattery: Why Hate Jews?

Never compare between only Blacks (B) and others for example, or only Caucasian Whites (CW) and B. One should consider at least three together instead of only two. For example, consider also the North East Asians (NEA). Why? Without considering NEA, B and ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - May 2 2018 - 7:58pm

Technological Singularity?, Inflection?, or a Mix ofBoth?

For most of human history, technology changed very little during a person’s lifetime. Certainty, their life was not constant with the hard agricultural life being interrupted by war, disease, and famine. However, very few new technologies would come into ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Mar 19 2017 - 5:48pm

Russia: A Broken Mirror of the U.S.A.?

A while back I wrote about the program I was involved with ...

Blog Post - David LePoire - Mar 24 2017 - 3:56pm

The Way I See It

Where by "It" I really mean the Future of mankind. The human race is facing huge new challenges in the XXI century, and we are only starting to get equipped to face them.  The biggest drama of the past century was arguably caused by the two world ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 4 2017 - 12:34pm

No Science Distorting Populism For High Trust Society

The prospect of a peaceful right wing revolution from the heart is no more but an April fools’ day joke to those high on hate such as Andrew Anglin. I would not be surprised if, as the hole at the other end of Ezra Levant’s dildo also suspected, such is su ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 7 2018 - 9:58pm