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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) at p.32.
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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
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Friday 21st of February 2020
“That Confederate monuments were erected as a result of the era’s racial animus is hardly a matter of dispute” –> Virginia Is Poised To Let Cities Remove Confederate Monuments. It’s About Damn Time Source: paullandry.micro.blog
Tagged micro.blog
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Tuesday 18th of February 2020
“Barr’s big complaint is that the president is so overt with the sleazy pressure” –> Bill Barr Knew He Would Be a Hatchet Man for Trump Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 13th of February 2020
“What this budget tells us is that this Republican president is a big spender […] confirming that Republican presidents can’t be trusted to restore fiscal sanity.” –> Trump’s Budget Follows in the Footsteps of Giant Spenders Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Tuesday 11th of February 2020
Cato: “We are marching into a fiscal crisis and our elected leaders seem to have no idea how to tackle it and do not even seem to care.” –> Federal Budget Policy Is a Disaster Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Thursday 6th of February 2020
Looking for the answers to ax² + bx + c = 0? A mathematician has rediscovered a technique that the ancient Babylonians used. –> This Professor’s ‘Amazing’ Trick Makes Quadratic Equations Easier Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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TheOnion: Rush Limbaugh Admits Presidential Medal Of Freedom Less Of An Honor Knowing That Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou Also Received It
News in Brief, from The Onion: WASHINGTON—Saying his initial enthusiasm had faded after learning about the award’s history, conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh conceded Wednesday that receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom was less of an honor knowing it had been bestowed upon Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou, too.
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Monday 3rd of February 2020
“A young Waylon Jennings, playing bass in Holly’s backing band” –> Waylon Jennings’ role in ‘The Day the Music Died’ Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Monday 3rd of February 2020
February 3rd: The Day the Music Died (1959). Source: paullandry.micro.blog
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Will Bolton Get To Testify Against Trump? All Signs Point to Yes.
Reason Roundup: Firing Bolton may be the best idea Trump has had in office, and we’re all safer and better off because of it. (It would have been nicer if he had never hired Bolton in the first place, but let’s call that water under the bridge for now.) Bolton turning on Trump once fired […]
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Colin Kaepernick to publish memoir
Variety: The activist and former San Francisco 49ers quarterback announced plans to release the book through Kaepernick Publishing, his own newly launched publishing company that is meant to “reinforce the importance of Black ownership” and “give power to Black and Brown voices globally, offering unprecedented ownership options to collaborators and bringing greater diversity and representation […]
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