No room in the neurones
He who is tired of learning has been doing it for seventy three years and needs to rest
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climate change
40 winks more
Strange how some event which is a “wake-up call” leaves everyone sleeping just as soundly as ever.
Old man in dry month
Rain rain come and play, stay away another day.
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Lament for a lost planet
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa….
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Probably not
When Rupert Murdoch looks at Donald Trump, and the return of Fascism around the world, and the now irreversible destruction of the planet, is he capable of feeling shame?
Down down, IQ is down
After seventy-odd (and seventy odd) years of life I keep thinking I have seen and heard all the worst of human stupidity. But then I read something said by a woman in a red cap, or a crackpot fundamentalist (of any religion), or a loopy flat earther, or a mad-brained creationist, or a Dunning-Kruger climate
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Make a list
When fascists gain power there first instinct is to destroy the environment – boost coal burning, get rid of national parks and conservation measures cut down the Amazon jungle. That will show the World who’s boss.
And we are well on our way
All over the universe, planets capable of supporting life will have evolved intelligent organisms. All over the universe those organisms will have invented systems of living that enable a small number of them to gain a very large share of the resources of the planet. All over the universe those systems will develop patterns of
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And then the rain came
At last, water in the sky, water on the ground, water soaking into ground, water moving into dams.
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No alternative
Religion is to science as alternative medicine is to medicine. No such thing as alternative medicine, any medicine that works is just medicine. Similarly, any part of any religion which actually supplied some real, testable, information about the world we live in would be science.