Following up on our conversation about the purposeful dumbing down of America, I though that I’d share this tweet, sent out today by renowned American astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is in reference, for those of you who don’t know, to the fact that, earlier today, physicists near Geneva, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, officially […]
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Something to think about as you’re lighting up Chinese fireworks in celebration of our country’s unsurpassed greatness
Posted in Science, Uncategorized Also tagged American exceptionalism, anti-science, bets, dumbing down of America, European Organization for Nuclear Research, fireworks, Fourth of July, god particle, Gordon Kane, Higgs boson, July 4, Large Hadron Collider, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Higgs, Science, Stephen Hawking, subatomic particles, University of Michigan 96 Comments
Creationist indoctrination
Sometimes I like to post stuff here just because I want someone else to be as infuriated as I am… The following video, shot at Kentucky’s Creationism Museum, falls into that category. It was given to me today by a fellow named Chris Collins. He likened it to child abuse, and I can’t see anything […]
The mystery of the Woman Without a Face
I can’t remember if we’ve discussed it here before, but, for the past several years, German authorities have been hot on the trail of a mysterious serial killer. Called “the woman without a face,” the killer was thought to have murdered dozens of people over a span of 15 years. Here, by way of background, […]
Posted in Other Also tagged bad police work, contamination, DNA, Germany, phantom killer, serial killer, the woman without a face 8 Comments