Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
BILL NYETeaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
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Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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