Category Archives: Science

Demographic Studies: Red v Blue, Abortions, Social Services, and Mortality Gaps

Posted on Saturday 30 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Two items today that fit neatly together. They are illustrations of demographic trends that seem always to align. Red states, religion, support for authoritarian politicians, disapproval of abortion, disapproval of certain books, distrust of science, and lack of social services. … Continue reading →

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Intercessory Prayer and Science

Posted on Sunday 10 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

About a month ago I put together a post in part about how belief in prayer reflects a fundamental inability to understand cause and effect in the real, actual, physical world; that post is here. I had a current link … Continue reading →

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Climate Change Denial and Christian Nationalists

Posted on Tuesday 5 July 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today, links about the threats, to American democracy and the survival of the planet, from conservatives, especially the religious ones. NYT, Paul Krugman, 4 July 2022: Another Step Toward Climate Apocalypse

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Ed Yong’s New Book

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Another quick post. Ed Yong, the science writer, has a new book out today — in fact my copy is running late, and will be delivered tomorrow — called An Immense World — about how animals perceive the world much … Continue reading →

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More Thinking about Women and Men

Posted on Sunday 19 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

To follow up on yesterday’s post, two items today.

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Aesthetics: Color Theory: 60:30:10

Posted on Monday 13 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s another item I saw just recently, which shares with the previous post how a design principle can be crystalized in numbers. Via Boing Boing, Devin Nealy, 31 May 2022: The 60-30-10 percent rule of color

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Aesthetics: The Starship Enterprise

Posted on Sunday 12 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

I was quite struck some years ago, 2014 it must have been, by an analysis of the design of the original starship Enterprise that showed how it relied heavily on the “Golden Ratio,” the artistic proportion of 1.618. And how … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Privileges

Posted on Sunday 5 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Claimed for knowledge that came first; claimed by those in power to preserve their status.

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Musings: The Sky; Living in History

Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly
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LQCs: Replacement theory, High School biology, Y2K, Macho puffery

Posted on Sunday 15 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The New Yorker, Kathleen Belew (assistant professor of history at U of Chicago) interviewed by Isaac Chotiner, 15 May 2022: Making Sense of the Racist Mass Shooting in Buffalo, subtitled, “An expert on the white-power movement and the ‘great replacement’ … Continue reading →

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