I coined the term “cultural inertia” some time ago to describe the phenomenon that some ideas just hang around if widely-held, if they are the majority view, and the average Continue Reading →
Gen Z, those born between 1995 and 2010, many of whom are 18-24 right now and of voting age are, according to this NYT article Young Voters Keep Moving Left Continue Reading →
I’ve posted 3 times here on the idiocy of American attitudes toward breastfeeding, in public, or just the sight of bare breasts displayed by women (Oh, horrors): here, Here, and Continue Reading →
Do we have free will, or does our brain choose everything we think or do as a result of previous brain states and sensory inputs, and it could not have Continue Reading →
I’ve blogged numerous times on the apparent inevitability of liberal progressive ideas eventually overcoming the undying resistance of Conservatism: here, Here, and HERE…and there are 1/2 dozen more blogs on Continue Reading →
Kids explore, Kids build, Kids figure out how stuff “works”. It’s built-in, innate. Nobody teaches them to zoom across the living room floor to get into…everything. And then start touching, Continue Reading →
With running voter registration drives, and teaching 7 classes and playing a lot of guitar, Ive been very gratifyingly busy as hell and so the Unbelieving Scum videocast will kick Continue Reading →
I’ll be remodeling my old office in the basement in September/October to turn it into a video studio/library for all my science and secular books as backdrop to the video Continue Reading →
A few consciousness researchers and some of the more philosophically inclined that ponder what consciousness is all about, propose that inanimate objects and mere matter, maybe the Universe itself, all Continue Reading →
Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen supporting the kids from Parkland pushing for gun control. Its an excellent commentary, 4 minutes, do watch it. It is rather refreshing to see another old Continue Reading →
