Meat, Potatoes, and Mortality: How Understanding Dies in a Cyberspatial Car Crash
Q: When are car crash fatalities more likely: when a population has more cars and drives more, or when a population has fewer cars and drives less? A: Hold that thought…*
- 22/08/2018
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A Climate of Lies
First thing this morning, I hugged my son - a strong, stoic, steady young man - as he sobbed about the prospect of a ravaged planet, and a blighted future. I could think of little more constructive to do than join him. Later, when my daughter called, on her way to now seemingly pointless classes in “environmental studies” at her university, and cried into the phone - I joined her, too.
- 20/08/2018
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Misinformation: Bad Medicine for Any Disease
I rather doubt ignorance is genuine bliss. It’s just a holding pattern; the proverbial calm that anticipates a storm. While the arc of the moral universe is long and bends toward justice, the arc of understanding is long and bends toward truth. It finds us all, eventually. The most ignorant are simply the last to get the memo. Ignorance is delay.
- 14/08/2018
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Dieting in Neverland
The signature feature of Neverland, a hot commodity these days, is not, of course, the Hook. It’s not the crocodile, either, nor even Tinkerbell, pixie dust, or Peter. The signature feature is the one great law of the land: you can never grow up. But one needn’t go nearly so far as Neverland to honor that statute; just sign up for breakfast, lunch, or dinner in America.
- 13/08/2018
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Seeking Science at the Sweet Spot- Past Denial, Dismissal, Delusion, and Despotism
Paul Simon told us some time ago that we lived in an age of miracle and wonder. The rest of his lyrics for The Boy in the Bubble, however, made it clear he did not mean the kind bestowed upon us by supernatural forces. He meant the kind we devised ourselves. He meant technology, and he was right- for better or for worse.
- 06/08/2018
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