Education, Who Is It For?

by | Dec 23, 2023 | Democracy, Education, Science

Florida says school libraries have right to remove LGBTQ books (tallahassee.com) 673 books removed from OCPS classrooms, analysis shows (mynews13.com)   Asked what “woke” means more generally, [Desantis’ General Counsel Ryan] Newman said “it would be the belief...

Deep Time

by | Dec 23, 2023 | Biodiversity, Biology, Education, Evolution, Scale

50 years ago, scientists thought they had found Earth’s oldest rocks (sciencenews.org) Single cell life, on Earth has been in existence for 3.7 billion years 17,000 times longer than the recent faith that creation was 6000 years ago. The oldest rock known is 4.4...

Descriptions, a Noble Tradition

by | Dec 18, 2023 | Uncategorized

1. “He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill 3. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. – Clarence Darrow 4....

“God”

by | Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized

It is good to be fUrther, however. “God” certainly encourages people to be unethical and based on “his” Biblical description, is a sadist and or a sociopath. Now perhaps “he” is schizophrenic as sometimes “it” appears...

Female Millennial Mortality Spikes

by | Dec 16, 2023 | Public Health

US Millennial Women Now More Likely to Die in Early 20s and 30s: Report (businessinsider.com) The death rate has risen in parallel with a startling increase in maternal mortality rates among women aged 25 to 34, with 30.4 deaths due to pregnancy complications out of...

The Future of Middle-Income Countries

by | Dec 16, 2023 | Public Health

Middle-Income Countries 2023 (worldpopulationreview.com) Mourning and worrying about the future in rural Egypt | Poverty and Development | Al Jazeera   A Modest Proposal; I believe going forward, most households in the world will pay a greater percentage of their...