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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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Daylight Savings Time is Senseless
I understand and appreciate its historical significance during the WWI and WWII eras, but the practicalities that necessitated it during those bygone days haven’t existed for at least two generations. Plus, it’s backwards: why move the clock forward at the point of the year when the days are naturally “growing longer”? I can’t help but […]
Also tagged government, history, misc
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My take on the whole Mac Defender brouhaha
What strikes me as most ironic about this whole story is that it disproves the very premise upon which all the hoopla is based. The whole premise is that smug Mac users–and we are all smug, after all–are in for a rude awakening for ignorantly believing their system of choice is impervious to attack. We’ve […]
Also tagged apple, mac vs. pc
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My thoughts on Season 2 of Top Shot
Great show–really–great show. Season 2, however, was just not as great as Season 1, for the reasons I’ve previously stated: The first season of Top Shot was predominantly about skill and performance; very competition-like. The second season has seen personality become a much more significant factor […] Season 2 also ended on a rather disingenuous […]
Dioxin causes insanity
Trevor Butterworth, writing in The Daily: …but the scientific criticism of the EPA is not coming from billionaire energy moguls, it’s coming from one of the most august scientific institutions in America: the independent National Academy of Sciences. Even the EPA’s own Scientific Advisory Board thinks it’s left the orbit of reason. We’ve known the […]
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Pretty in Pink
Jessica Valenti writing in The Daily on the J.Crew uproar: Suggesting that nail polish has anything to do with sexual preference or gender identity indicates a serious lack of knowledge about homosexuality, transgender issues or child development. […] And no matter how these “experts” shroud their hate in rhetoric about concern for children, their true […]
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Here we go again…
Last year, after a number of years of faithful blogging at a site, the name of which now escapes me ;-), I decided to trash it all. Why you ask? Well, it’s very easy, when you have regular readers, to feel obligated to write something every day, and that has a tendency to make blogging […]