Thinking things through

(cont'd from yesterday's 2021 re-post) Vertical farm 2 (cont'd from yesterday's post) Controlled environment agriculture (CE...

America, like The Netherlands and a number of other countries, has been using alternative farming methods for years now. Check out this post...

The Netherlands is the size of the American state, New Jersey. But the country exports more food than any other country in the world, except...

Take a look at the trouble Christians face in their home country of Nigeria . Attacks on their farms and churches and schools, including mur...

Google has been accused multiple times of suppressing political views they don't like, of favoring the left in their search algorithms. ...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) Nighttime is quite different on the Moon. Since it rotates more slowly than Earth, darkness lasts for...

I t's not only tech companies that invest in new applications of nuclear power. NASA (American Space and Aeronautics Agency) is researc...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) Just as Season 5 of "The Chosen" is released on their app, they've completed the filmin...

Follow up to this post Creator of "The Chosen," Dallas Jenkins, has said on multiple occasions that "The Chosen" will al...

(cont'd from these posts ) Reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk have flooded social media. I didn't realize how well known he was...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) Prayer could be unlawful, illegal, in New South Wales, Australia, says the Attorney General there. He...

Laws exist to restrict bad actions, and of course we want that. Even words can be illegal in certain circumstances. But there can't be a...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) So . . maybe AI won't take over the world and make us into slaves because the real-world requirem...

Follow up to these posts We're going into a new paradigm, according to most experts, where artificial intelligence reaches into all our ...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) Yesterday it started: Charlie's friends and fans pouring out what he meant to them. Here are a fe...

Yesterday Charlie Kirk was doing what he so often did and loved to do: dialoging with people who disagreed with him on a college campus. He ...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) With such a big book, well over a thousand pages long, curiosity alone won't get you through the ...

Central to the worldview and foundation of Western Civilization is . . The Bible, a big book comprised of smaller books written over centuri...

If you could educate your child or grandchild in any way that you believe to be most effective, would you pick a public school? A private sc...

Our children's welfare concerns all of us. When a  book explaining that they're in trouble because of smartphones was published las...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) As they start their second year, the new president gave a Convocation address that might deeply ...

Follow-up to these posts No phones or laptops in class, no grade inflation, no TA's leading discussion instead of professors. Students p...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) It's no small thing to trace the making of the common pencil.  A child could tell you about its p...

Who cares about a pencil?  Back in 1958, every child in America needed a pencil for school work. It was common and under-appreciated. An eco...

Win or lose, "the goal is always to collect as much data as possible," to learn what works and what doesn't, to test for weakn...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) Another use for an ADU would be to post it on Airbnb  if you live in a popular destination area. In f...

Housing is getting more expensive. In some cases, building an ADU can help.  ADU is an "accessory dwelling unit." It's a resid...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) "Staggering" amounts of energy are needed for the coming build-out of artificial intelligen...

Remember the " Metaverse ," that virtual reality envisioned by Mark Zuckerberg? After billions of dollars of investment, there was...

(cont'd from yesterday's post) And why is nuclear power a concern for AI builders? Because artificial intelligence is being develope...