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The Beatles Get Back: An Inexpert Review
Read More →: The Beatles Get Back: An Inexpert ReviewI really like the Beatles so I was excited to see that “The Beatles Get Back” was now available on Disney. It was a three-part series with each part lasting…
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Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Viable Option?
Read More →: Is Carbon Capture and Storage a Viable Option?The countries of the world have reached a consensus that we need to reduce our carbon emissions. One proposal to do that is to switch to a hydrogen economy. The…
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The Effect of the Increasing CO2 on the Earth
Read More →: The Effect of the Increasing CO2 on the EarthScience is about using observation and reason to understand the physical world. Here are some of the latest observations showing how increasing greenhouse gases are changing the Earth. CO2: Man is…
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Poorer
Read More →: Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor PoorerThe 2017 (TJCA) really did a job on the American people. The results were predictable. A similar tax cut in Kansas in 2012 was a disaster for Kansas. It benefited…
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Observations of Climate Change in Kolkata
Read More →: Observations of Climate Change in KolkataThis is a guest post from Pabitra Mukhopadhyay, who is a hydrological engineer in Calcutta. It was originally written in Bengali, and a rough translation is below. ” · আজ থেকে দশ…
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A Road Trip in an EV
Read More →: A Road Trip in an EVDarrell Hart took his EV on a road trip from Wichita to Virginia and back. It should put to rest concerns about charging anxiety.
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Please Stop Stereotyping Republicans
Read More →: Please Stop Stereotyping RepublicansThere are a lot of articles and posts on social media lately which blame Republicans for a variety of ills in our society. The people responsible for those ills…
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Sustainability Comes to Wichita
Read More →: Sustainability Comes to WichitaThe Wichita City Council voted on June 15, 2021, to form a Sustainability Board. This was due to the work of several environmental groups, especially SOAR, which had that as…
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Mank: A Warning about Fake News
Read More →: Mank: A Warning about Fake NewsThe movie, Mank, explores the fake news used to defeat Upton Sinclair when he ran for governor of California.
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The Mythical Magic Hydrogen Economy
Read More →: The Mythical Magic Hydrogen EconomyThere’s a little bit of truth to every myth, and the hydrogen economy is no different. Hydrogen fuel cells would be wonderful for the environment. They combine hydrogen with oxygen…
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Thermodynamics: A Tour through the Three Laws
Read More →: Thermodynamics: A Tour through the Three LawsI’m not sure how they got to be laws, but they do appear inviolable in most instances. The First Law: “Energy is conserved, i.e., it can be neither created…
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Global Warming: The Rise of Methane
Read More →: Global Warming: The Rise of MethaneNew Greenhouse gases play a huge role in keeping the surface of the Earth warm. Without the greenhouse effect, the temperature of the Earth would average about -18°C, and all…
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Global Warming and the Jet Stream
Read More →: Global Warming and the Jet StreamThe Arctic is much warmer now than it was 30 years ago. They even had 100° days in Siberia last summer. The warming Arctic has caused changes in the jet…
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Apparatuses of Justification
Read More →: Apparatuses of JustificationIn his internationally renowned work, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty says that extreme economic inequality can only be sustained by “apparatuses of justification.” He states, “ The existence of such “apparatuses”…
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The Problem with Addressing Induced Earthquakes
Read More →: The Problem with Addressing Induced EarthquakesMany people believe that man’s activities are so inconsequential that they could not possibly induce earthquakes. However, there have been cases as far back as the 1960s where the…
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Earthquakes in Wichita?
Read More →: Earthquakes in Wichita?Earthquakes in the Wichita area are very rare. However, beginning in November 2020, a cluster of earthquakes occurred with the epicenters under Northeast Wichita. There were 21 earthquakes with a magnitude above…
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Eisenhower’s Republican Platform
Read More →: Eisenhower’s Republican PlatformThe National Republican Party did not adopt a new platform this year, so I thought I’d provide one from Eisenhower in 1956. The platform is rather long, but this is…
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Think Tanks: Why Kansas Has Bad Laws
Read More →: Think Tanks: Why Kansas Has Bad LawsThink tanks are a body of experts assembled to provide ideas and advice on specific political or economic problems. The think tanks in the illustration below have much in common.…
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E. Calvin Beisner: Will a Carbon Tax Hurt the Poor?
Read More →: E. Calvin Beisner: Will a Carbon Tax Hurt the Poor?A carbon fee will not hurt the poor, but a carbon fee and dividend solution as opposed by the citizen climate lobby would certainly help them more.
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