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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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The real problem with Romney’s ’47 percent’ gaffe
W. James Antle III writing at The Daily Caller: The problem is that Romney isn’t basing that figure on dependency on government programs. He’s using the rough percentage of people who pay no federal income tax. There are two reasons the percentage of Americans who don’t write checks to the IRS has spiked in recent […]
Tagged government, money, politics, taxes
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States Vary Widely in Number of Tax Filers with No Income Tax Liability
Scott A. Hodge writing at TaxFoundation.org back in 2010: Southern States Have Highest Percentages of “Nonpayers” Generally speaking, the most populated states have the most nonpayers. More than 6 million tax-filing Californians paid nothing to Uncle Sam for the 2008 tax year. That was 37 percent of the 16.4 million tax filers in California. The […]
HP introduces new Apple iMac
Matthew Panzarino writing at The Next Web: The Spectre One desktop, which was released in a PR flood at midnight last night, looks like absolutely nothing other than a complete clone of Apple’s iMac. Note that even the keyboard and touchpad are nearly complete clones of Apple’s offerings. This is just a sad day for […]
Tagged apple, bullshit, computers, mac, mac vs. pc
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Gary Johnson on the Stossel show
Gary Johnson on John Stossel’s show this past Thursday. Damn, what a president Gary Johnson would make! I wish they had posted John Stossel’s wrap-up segment, “Stossel’s Take”, but fortunately I was able to locate it on YouTube. This isn’t the best video quality, but John Stossel in his closing remarks to this past Thursday’s […]
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‘This Could Be Big’ drives bigger interest in MTSU hybrid
MTSU News and Media Relations via MTSUNews.com: September 10, 2012 This could be big? Overnight, it’s become huge for MTSU engineering technology professor Dr. Charles Perry. Television journalist Bill Weir and the ABC News/Yahoo! News “This Could Be Big” online collaboration has rocketed interest in Perry’s plug-in hybrid retrofit kit motor project into a new […]
Tagged awesome, cars, environment/environmental, innovation, money, tennessee
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Tesla on Edison
via Mental Floss (@mental_floss) on Twitter: Tesla on Edison: He had no hobby, cared for no amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene.
Essential Rules of Gunfighting Everyone Should Know
(You may someday have to apply one or more of these…) 1) Bring a gun; when possible, bring at least two guns, all of your friends that have guns and FOUR TIMES the ammunition you think you could ever need. 2) Guns have only two enemies: rust and inexperience. a) Practice. Practice reloading one-handed and […]
Kirby Ferguson: Embracing the remix
TED Talk by Kirby Ferguson. Great artists steal, except from me! Excellent talk, except for one inaccuracy: popular myth has it that Apple “stole” the original Mac’s features from Xerox PARC, but the fact of the matter is that Apple purchased “engineering visits” to PARC in exchange for selling Xerox 100k shares of pre-IPO stock […]
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I don’t know you, but I was tearing up last night during the speech!
I don’t know about any of you, but I was tearing up last night during the speech; I don’t know if I’ve ever been more proud to be an American. Of course, I wasn’t watching the DNC – I was streaming “Tommy Boy” via Netflix!!! 😉 But MAN! That speech that Chris Farley as Tommy […]
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The Obama GITMO myth
Glenn Greenwald writing at Salon.com: New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp During the Bush years, the plight of these detainees was a major source of political controversy, but under Obama, it is now almost entirely forgotten. On those rare occasions when it is raised, Obama defenders […]
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