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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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Nashville School Shooting and the Metro Nashville Police Department
The Nashville school shooting is awful. Horrendous. What can you say, except that you feel for the victims and families. Now, right up front I need to tell you I am, in general, no fan of police. Because of my race, sex, gender and age, most people assume I am, but I am not. I […]
Nashville School Shooting
NewsChannel5 (WTVF) in Nashville: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Seven people are dead — including three children — at The Covenant School on Monday morning after a shooting inside the building. Three adult staff members are also dead. The shooter, who is also dead, is identified as Audrey Hale, 28. This person had no criminal history. […]
Nashville Announces First Coronavirus Death
BREAKINGCoronavirus In Tennessee: Metro Nashville Announces First Coronavirus Death https://t.co/73Ayl6SEvN — WPLN News – Nashville Public Radio (@WPLN) March 21, 2020
Tennessean: Nashville will recover from this terrible tornado and become stronger
Opinion and Engagement Director David Plazas at The Tennessean: Nashville proved during the flood of 2010 it was resilient. Residents banded together to rebuild and restore the damaged parts of the city. They are doing so again in 2020 […] Thank you to our firefighters, our police, our health care workers, our electrical workers and […]
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Twitter: Wow. I am speechless at this photo.
Heather Mathis (@NC5_HMathis) Tweeted: Wow. I am speechless at this photo. Jenny Pearcy took this from her balcony of SkyHouse Nashville as a tornado tore through downtown. @NC5 https://t.co/1t15fKWsoi Wow. I am speechless at this photo. Jenny Pearcy took this from her balcony of SkyHouse Nashville as a tornado tore through downtown. @NC5 pic.twitter.com/1t15fKWsoi — […]
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Nixle alerts work
If your community uses the Nixle Alert system, you should subscribe. Nixle alerts, starting from 12:37AM: Chrissy and I were just about to return to bed when we got the 12:46AM message stating, “The tornado warning continues. Stay in your safe place.” Nixle alerts, starting from 1:06AM:
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