Stewart Brand, one of the pioneers of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s, is now offering some suggestions and some proposals that will likely upset many sacrosanct, long held environmental beliefs.
As he rightly points out, in my opinion, the massive shadow of climate change hovers over all of us and will force us to rethink a great many ideas, be it such things as geoengineering, nuclear energy, and genetically modified crops.
What does science do best? Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine calls it the Baloney Detection Kit.
Part II of Bill Moyers' interview with a former CIGNA insurance executive. Are we Americans completely befuddled?
It certainly should not be a surprise to anyone at this point when a survey published by the Pew Research Center recently reported that there is a considerable “belief” gap between scientists and the public in general.
On such central issues as climate change and evolution for example, the views held by the scientists and the public are widely divergent. At the same time the public, by a large number, has a high opinion of scientists and engineers.
Bill Moyers Journal this past Friday night interviewed a former insurance executive with CIGNA. Yes the rot keeps on giving.
Cappella jazz choir from Slovenia. Watch the opening African thunderstorm.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
(George Santayana)
The death this week of Robert Strange McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, went almost unnoticed. Of course I've always thought that we Americans were not very good at understanding the past, at least any past more than ten years old.
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show suggests that, uh, the free market is, well, maybe deranged. We're all doomed! Go to Humans.
Artists supporting Employee Free Choice Act.
As I watched the climate change/energy debate play itself out in the House of Representatives and listen to the various factions gearing up for the health care “fight,” I find that I can juggle two very different opinions at the same time, well almost at the same time.
