But if you do the arithmetic, you find you’d need to build about a hundred trillion dollars’ worth of batteries to store the same amount of energy that Europe has in storage now for this winter. It would take the world’s battery factories 400 years to manufacture that many batteries.--Mills
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"This latest shooting, in which at least five people in Colorado were killed late Saturday night when a gunman once again opened fire inside an LGBTQ nightclub, follows six years in which far-right leaders have led American politics down a fearful blame spiral fueled by homophobia, xenophobia and racism."
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Humans could stay on the Moon for lengthy periods during this decade, a Nasa official has told the BBC.
Howard Hu, who leads the Orion lunar spacecraft program for the agency, said habitats would be needed to support scientific missions.
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The World Cup rules recall some strange COVID rules actually devised by grownups. Downing Street set rules that prohibited pub customers from singing, especially loudly, because it was considered a transmission risk. The government's guidance covered any hospitality venue for that matter, not just pubs, and included restaurants, bars, and similar places serving food or drink as well. I don't know about singing in the shower, as logic is clearly not in play here.
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The World Cup rules recall some strange COVID rules actually devised by grownups. Downing Street set rules that prohibited pub customers from singing, especially loudly, because it was considered a transmission risk. The government's guidance covered any hospitality venue for that matter, not just pubs, and included restaurants, bars, and similar places serving food or drink as well. I don't know about singing in the shower, as logic is clearly not in play here.
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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced this week that it would allow Sikh students to wear a kirpan, a ceremonial knife, on campus.
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Can anyone explain that strange World Cup opening?
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Scientism
From an article by Kheriarty:
Scientism is the philosophical claim—which cannot be proven scientifically—that science is the only valid form of knowledge. Anyone who begins a sentence with the phrase, “Science says . . . ” is likely in the grip of scientism. Genuine scientists don’t talk like this. They begin sentences with phrases like, “The findings of this study suggest,” or “This meta-analysis concluded. . . .” Scientism, by contrast, is a religious and often a political ideology. “It has been evident for quite a while that science has become our time’s religion,” the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben observed, “the thing which people believe that they believe in.” When science becomes a religion—a closed and exclusionary belief system—we are dealing with scientism.
The characteristic feature of science is warranted uncertainty, which leads to intellectual humility.
The characteristic feature of scientism is unwarranted certainty, which leads to intellectual hubris.
Scientism is the philosophical claim—which cannot be proven scientifically—that science is the only valid form of knowledge. Anyone who begins a sentence with the phrase, “Science says . . . ” is likely in the grip of scientism. Genuine scientists don’t talk like this. They begin sentences with phrases like, “The findings of this study suggest,” or “This meta-analysis concluded. . . .” Scientism, by contrast, is a religious and often a political ideology. “It has been evident for quite a while that science has become our time’s religion,” the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben observed, “the thing which people believe that they believe in.” When science becomes a religion—a closed and exclusionary belief system—we are dealing with scientism.
The characteristic feature of science is warranted uncertainty, which leads to intellectual humility.
The characteristic feature of scientism is unwarranted certainty, which leads to intellectual hubris.
Science is a process, not a state of affairs.
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