Of Comets, COVID, and Conceit
Comet NEOWISE visible above the NW horizon of central Oregon, just passing by the Sun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a view like that. Comet NEOWISE was just too faint where Continue Reading →
Comet NEOWISE visible above the NW horizon of central Oregon, just passing by the Sun. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a view like that. Comet NEOWISE was just too faint where Continue Reading →
Lake Superior-no salt added, shark-free, along the North Shore NW of Duluth MN OK so I wasn’t gonna do any research on a topic, just an impromptu essay for the Continue Reading →
Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →
The “Defenders of the New Enlightenment” (D.O.N.E.) YouTube channel of science and secular podcasts hosted by yours truly, Dr.Z, the Unbelieving Scum, is FINALLY in the works. I’m about a Continue Reading →
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 →
Wounded Bull and Ice Age hunter with atl-atl (spear-thrower). From nearly 40,000 years ago to almost 10,000 BC, all across southern Europe in over 400 caves and rockshelters, Paleolithic Cave Continue Reading →
Information Kills Religion. Yes it does. Science; modern knowledge, sweeps away the old myths, superstitions, repressions, and pessimism of religious thought. Normally, I would prepare one of these posts on Continue Reading →
The steady, inevitable, secular advance is readily apparent in the data cited by two recent articles describing significant changes in the US population. First up, James Haught, in an article Continue Reading →
Jase Heap of The Untied Coalition of Reason reports that 367 out 1,041 incoming freshmen at American University in Wash DC identify as a “None” of some kind. “Nones” of Continue Reading →