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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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Author Archives: Paul
Apple Q&A on Location Data
3. Why is my iPhone logging my location? The iPhone is not logging your location. Rather, it’s maintaining a database of Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers around your current location
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 […]
Tagged bullshit, environment/environmental, government
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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 […]
Kevin Smith announces the SModcastle Lounge
Almost makes me wish I lived in L.A… Kevin Smith, writing at his Silent Bob Speaks blog: In May, SModcastle is closing. However, also in May: SModcastle is re-opening at The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club at Universal CityWalk as SModcastle Lounge. Taking over the entire top floor of The Lovitz, SModcastle Lounge will eventually serve […]
Tagged smod, thatkevinsmith
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Apple employees join ‘It Gets Better’ campaign
Apple employees join the It Gets Better campaign (link to YouTube). Adobe employees too (link to YouTube).
Tagged adobe, apple, employees, itgetsbetter
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State of the Franchise: Titans
NFL Total Access report on the state of the Titans (video, Flash required).
Recalling “Kaputnik” and the early days of the space race
Rose Lichter-Marck writing in The Daily: On Dec. 6, 1957, Cape Canaveral was swarming with journalists. In the distance stood the 70-foot-tall Vanguard Test Vehicle 3, or TV-3, with its nib-like black nose. The cameras rolled as the countdown began. The slender rocket trembled against the blue sky as the boosters kicked in. Orange flames […]
Tagged space
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Top Shot goes “reality”
I’m a big fan of the TV show Top Shot on the History Channel. My son and I watch every episode and we really enjoy the different challenges and weapons. But I must say that I don’t much care for the direction the show is taking. The first season of Top Shot was predominantly about […]
WordPress for iOS
I must say, the WordPress for iOS app has really matured since I last used it (it was called WordPress for iPhone back then…).
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 […]