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Rejecting Reality
From climate change to vaccines, evolution to flu, denialists are on the march. Why are so many people refusing to accept what the evidence is telling them?
In this special feature we look at the phenomenon in depth. What is denial? What attracts people to it? How does it start, and how does it spread? And finally, how should we respond to it?
Via Skepchick
The end
And it’s good night from the Aral Sea
Once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, king cotton and the command economy have done for it in a few short decades, with its volume falling by more than three-quarters
Following up on a Facebook note by my old friend Sister Edith.
Another win for reality over ideology
Energy in America: A view from England
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: Deep trouble
However you measure the full cost of a gallon of gas, pollution and all, Americans are nowhere close to paying it. Indeed, their whole energy industry—from subsidies for corn ethanol to limited liability for nuclear power—is a slick of preferences and restrictions, without peer. The tinkering that will follow this spill will merely further complicate it.
…. But if the politicians are really as committed to “cleaning up” the energy industry as they now claim, far more could be achieved by reducing the subsidies and introducing a carbon tax. That may seem a long way from the calamity in the Gulf; but in the long run those other murky waters also need to be cleaned up.
From The Economist.
A Win for Reality over Ideology
Ideology vs. Reality
The oil spill
From Politico.
Horror from the deep
Horror from the deep. The Economist on the Gulf coast oil spill.
The Lovecrafty title seems particularly appropriate.
“Spill, baby, spill!”
Eyjafjallajokull
After the volcano: Earthly powers
It is a peculiar, if blessed, sort of natural disaster in which nobody dies.
[….]
One of the things that went missing in the shadow of that volcanic dust was a sense of human power. And as with the quiet skies, this absence found a welcome in many hearts. The idea that humans, for all their technological might, could be put in their place by this volcano—this obscure, unpronounceable, C-list volcano—was strangely satisfying, even thrilling.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 