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A curious thing happened this weekend: my websites were listed by Google as being dangerous to vi...

General education is having majors in one field take a smattering of freshman classes in other fi...

I just read the first two paragraphs of Thomas Sowell's The Visions of the Anointed: Self-congrat...

One basic of a scientific theory is its ability to make predictions which can be tested. If those...

I read a blog by a climate scientist, Roger Pielke Jr. He works on the UN climate reports. Recent...

Immigration to the U.S. was open and free until 1914. Anyone who wanted to come just needed to ge...

"Sodium forms a +1 ion because it wants to have a noble gas electron configuration." "Plants e...

Every time I hear the term "settled science" I think, "You're not doing it right." History is pac...

In the journal Inorganic Chemistry this week there is a cover article titled, "MnII/III and CeIII...

Before August, this is the CDC definition of a vaccine: Immunity: Protection from an infectiou...

Using plastic. Driving to work. Eating meat. Not recycling a paper plate. Being white. Being male...

I saw the new Spiderman movie last night. More of the multiverse is in it. The idea that there ...

Out-of-context news reporting is now the standard. It got that way because of clickbait headlin...

Public relations are ubiquitous. Here is an announcement form UVU this morning: On Wednesday D...

I was just watching a NOVA episode about black holes. Every scientist they had told a story of bl...

There is a fine old tradition of predicting the end of the world. It's been happening for millenn...

I have a keen ear for science in the news. I also have a keen ear for propaganda, earned by liste...

We live in a judgmental culture. Very judgmental. Every social media post is held as a document o...

In a free market the producers try to maximize profits, and the consumers try to minimize costs. ...