Not the same thing! In “Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss” (1 Jan 2015, Scientific American), Keith Stanovich writes: No doubt you know several folks with perfectly respectable IQs who repeatedly make poor decisions. The behavior of such people tells us that we are missing something important by treating intelligence as […]
Read MoreAvoid Quarrels
Grammar is a critical aspect of effective communication with ourselves, with those we love, with coworkers, and with people in general. We need to know some basics to let others know what we think, to avoid quarrels and angry disputes, and to get along. So I recommend you learn what you need so you can […]
Read MoreEnvironment Matters For Us Humans
Life, including the human, is conditional. Our lives have requirements and occur in a biological context. We have a specific, objective nature. We need species-appropriate movement, environment, sleep, water, air, nutrition, symbioses, and more. Undercut those things, and you undercut human life. So, to coin a new term, I consider myself an “anthropocentric environmentalist.”
Read MoreGot biology?
Physics and chemistry are lifeless. Biology matters. It’s what survival is about. And it’s what education needs to be based on; it’s what makes education practical and relevant.
Read MoreMy New Book! (Well, Was In August 2018)
Great edition of Walden: it has annotations to help explain the dense work.
Read MoreAll In Modern Medicine That Is Not Inductive and Integrated Is Wrong
Too much medical research cannot be trusted. As Dr. John Ioannidis says in STEM-Talk podcast #77 (November 20, 2018), too much of “modern medicine“ is not good for human health. (If you don’t like this, you can take it up with John. Or the producers of the podcast.) And too many in modern medicine […]
Read MoreBiology Matters: Vultures Help Keep Our Environment and Neighborhoods Clean
Vultures keep our environment and neighborhood clean. They help prevent rabies, plague, anthrax. They help keep our water clean. For free! No “gas footprint” and all that! So be nice to them, please. I used to not like them before I knew better. Now that I now their nature and their role in our ecology, […]
Read MoreComment on the Nature of Science
Fact vs. Fashion
“The lasts over which the footwear of civilization is shaped are rarely modeled in the spirit of truth that would make them conform to the contour of a normal foot. The whim of society and the manufacturers’ enterprise alone regulate their shape. Society, apparently, agrees that the human foot as formed by nature is coarse, […]
Read MoreThat Glyphosate Thing
In “Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance,” Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff say in their Conclusion: “Celiac disease is a complex and multifactorial condition associated with gluten intolerance and a higher risk to thyroid disease, cancer and kidney disease, and there is also an increased risk to infertility and birth […]
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