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A Defense of Science: An Essay of at Least One Part Part 0 – Introduction and Glossary So-called “Mainstream Science”, that is, science as it is currently practiced by the vast majority of credentialed and experienced professionals, is deeply...
by Prince Lotor
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 10:32 AM PST
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This is a story about perception. But aren’t they all? My wallet went. missing this week. It had been several days since I needed to leave the house, so I just stashed it in my nightstand as I normally do, along the with keys. The keys came and went,...
by Robert Dobbs
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on Sat Nov 25, 2023 at 09:09 AM PST
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If you haven't watched Katie Phang's television show on MSNBC, I highly recommend it. She is an extremely intelligent attorney and does a great job of getting to the heart of issues. Her guest was Dr. Wayne A I Frederick who is the president of Howard...
by Dem
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on Sat Jul 01, 2023 at 12:45 PM PDT
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This is a reposting of something I wrote in August of 2007. I encountered it when looking for some of the pieces I had done on education at the request of someone in my school who thought those mgith be worthy of sharing with faculty and staff. In...
by teacherken
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on Thu Feb 02, 2023 at 03:57 PM PST
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Less than 24 hours after it became official that the Republican Party would now control the House in 2023, they held their first press conference to warn America that they were about to roll up their sleeves and solve America's problems! You might be...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Nov 18, 2022 at 12:54 PM PST
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This is a purely personal essay. It is quite long. There is also some sexual language and discussion that may make some readers highly uncomfortable and might even be triggering. My first day of Residency the Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology stepped...
by Nonlinear
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on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 10:22 PM PDT
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Each culture has its blind spots as it is part of our humanness to get used to ways of being within a lot of unspoken social norms and constructs. Just as sometimes it can be helpful to get feedback from a friend (or even a stranger) to hear an...
by citisven
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on Sun May 29, 2022 at 01:49 PM PDT
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What I did for my summer vacation. What I learned during the Covid shutdown. The last year and a half have been many things. Frightening, depressing, enlightening, inspiring, perspiring, expiring… It has shown me many things about the human race, some...
by trumpeter
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on Fri Sep 10, 2021 at 11:20 AM PDT
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We are way past overdue for major corporate reform, including the enforcement of existing statutes preventing the establishment of monopolies, such as Amazon's brave new experiment in creating a monopoly by attempting to control as many supply chains...
by DrBobOpEd
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on Wed Jul 21, 2021 at 06:24 PM PDT
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Staring down into our iPhones, desktops, and tablets, we're emotionally sheared off from one another like wool is from its sheep. And, since our emotions have been shorn from us, we don't see death. More accurately, we don't see death as it...
by Bright Creature
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on Tue Dec 29, 2020 at 02:00 PM PST
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I hate diaries that are just, here’s a great article: link. So, here’s a great article: Why Joe Biden is Going to Win. This essay by Kendall Kaut (whom I’ve never heard of before) is 5500 words of just laying it out clearly and simply....
by Bruce The Moose
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on Tue Nov 03, 2020 at 09:54 AM PST
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Children of prominent Republicans are breaking generational bigotry and encouraging individuals to end Trump’s “reign of terror.” First, the daughter of former White House aide Kellyanne Conway, Claudia Conway, made headlines for exposing her mother’s...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 09:49 AM PDT
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Brace yourself for a bold admission: I’m a huge anti-masker. They’re hot and scratchy on my face. My chin starts to sweat, and the elastic pulls painfully on my ears. My breath tastes...weird. Worst of all, the constant pressure against my mouth and...
by SCOTT IN DC
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on Sun Jul 19, 2020 at 03:09 PM PDT
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Ever since the industrial revolution, the ideal of our culture, has been the Now. Machines and mortals alike are ordered, and in many cases driven, to produce results instantly; a new machine, or variation upon an extant machine, is judged by faster...
by rahuputra1
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on Fri Jul 17, 2020 at 12:39 PM PDT
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by Marcus G. Miller A few weeks ago, in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, a throng of protesters clapped along to live music even as they were shouting the names of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, holding signs, and chanting “Black...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Tue Jun 30, 2020 at 11:55 AM PDT
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Cross-posted at my website on 14 June 2020. -cvn I’m science fiction and fantasy author. Most of my blog posts talk about my books, or the thrilling life of an author, and occasionally cats. This is one of two personal essays on topics related to...
by cvannatta
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on Mon Jun 15, 2020 at 05:36 PM PDT
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As a fan of the Good News Roundup, I have been inoculated against despair daily by an amazing team of writers, led by Goodie. After getting my dose today, an observation nagging at me all week came into focus. Politics with a small “p” is not news to...
by eOz
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on Sat Jun 06, 2020 at 12:41 PM PDT
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CRUSH HER!!!!!!!!!! Square yourself with the camera. Put the sparkle in your eye. In deep but tender register say, “It’s on us..” to select prey, not amongst our dears and peers, but through reaching, punching down. “It’s on us..” to ridicule...
by LKN2020
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on Tue May 12, 2020 at 05:21 PM PDT
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If Ramadan was a person and I had a chance to say one thing to them, it would be “I need you.” We’re more than halfway through the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which symbolizes the time of the year in which Islam’s prophet...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Sun May 17, 2020 at 08:51 AM PDT
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A big part of me would love to F-bomb tRump & his merry band of the Worst and the Dullest right back into the Stone Age. Except, that is where they want all of us to go. Superstition, magical ...
by NotNowNotEver
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on Fri Apr 17, 2020 at 04:30 PM PDT
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