22 Sep, 2024
Science vs Opinion: Consequences
Science vs Opinion: Consequences by Wim Laven 552 words These days it seems like there has been a death of...
22 Sep, 2024
11 Aug, 2021
A gift for the future
Today, a child was born, tiny hands curling and unfurling with the startled shock of cool air on wet skin, oxygen flooding into newly-opened lungs as she cries upon entering this strange new world...
14 Feb, 2021
A Second Civil War?
A Second Civil War? by Winslow Myers 920 words Published in: LA Progressive, Daily Advent, The Chronicle, Sierra County Prospect,...
12 Oct, 2020
Trust Science
Long ago, I concluded that no reliable evidence supports gods, devils, heavens, hells, miracles, prophecies and other supernatural stuff of religion. Those magic claims simply arise from the human imagination, I assume. Instead, I chose to trust the honest search of science to explain ultimate mysteries of existence.
4 Mar, 2020
Is the Creator interfering in the 2020 elections?
“The creator, noted grantor of our rights to be free from government abuse in the Declaration of Independence, appears to...
23 Sep, 2019
Listen to the children
“The Republicans are on the sidelines on the climate crisis. Government scientists are muzzled…” Author: Mel Gurtov Published in: Bainbridge...
13 Oct, 2018
Evolution of Religion
“Science answers many questions but not of morality or wisdom. Human judgment is responsible there. But morality began with evolution....
12 Mar, 2018
Trump’s Attacks Earth, Resistance and Innovation
“In 1992, 1700 scientists from around the world signed a “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity…” Mel Gurtov Published in: Counterpunch,...
1 Jan, 2018
From Swamp to Cesspool
“There is something that has bothered me about Donald Trump’s dishonesty and refusal to face reality, and China has it...
2 Jun, 2017
Anti-Science Trumps Climate Change
“True to form, President Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris accord on climate change, joining Syria and...
26 Mar, 2017
Can Our Social Institutions Catch Up With Advances in Science and Technology?
“H.G. Wells, one of the most prolific and prominent novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…” Lawrence Wittner...
27 Jan, 2017
2 ½ Minutes to Midnight – Our World in Peril
“The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday its latest nuclear Doomsday Clock. In so doing they moved the symbolic minute...