I was skimming through an exceedingly long critique of "woke" culture and I found myself agreeing with most of its comprehensive analysis even though personally I hate the word "woke" but don't consider myself "anti-woke" either because there's no generally accepted definition for "woke ( Read more... )

OK, I was out the hotel room door at 6:25am for a quick hotel breakfast, then the drive to the ferry, then the ferry to the island, where I received a pretty good tour of the facilities and the island.  Except I did not want to go "into containment" -- I was not interested in whatever naked showers and scrubbing and containment suits were necessary ( Read more... )

Yeah, in practice science deals with uncertainty, it's not as tidy as those equations we learn in our physics and chemistry textbooks, and science progresses via a system of falsification - showing that previous theories are false ( Read more... )

“The president has said unmistakably that he wants school to reopen,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a briefing Thursday. “When he says open, he means open and full, kids being able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this.”Read more... )