Last week, a report issued by the Public Religion Research Institute, a respected polling organization (background info here), contained a stunning statistic: The percentage of Americans who identify with evangelical churches has dropped from 23% to 14% since 2008, a decline of nearly 40% in a dozen[...]
Archive for July 10th, 2021
Understanding quantum computers
For most people, that’s an oxymoron. Putting the word “understanding” in the same sentence as “quantum computers” doesn’t make any sense, except to a handful of people above our pay grades. Quantum computing is based on the physics of quantum mechanics, which is a[...]
Who cares if photons from 6,500 light years away accelerate like crazy?
“Scientists have long known the Crab Nebula [is] a very energetic astrophysical object …. But recently, [they] discovered it is even more energetic than they thought. Using an array of state-of-the-art detectors on … the Tibetan Plateau, a team … detected light particles with[...]
July 10th, 2021 - 5:15 pm § in News Media, Politics
When impersonating the media isn’t a good idea
“A Southern California man has been arrested after being charged with joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol while trying to impersonate a member of the media,” NBC News reported on Saturday, July 10, 2021 (read story here). “Matthew Thomas Purse, 45, was arrested in Irvine[...]
Rightwing inciter
One of the zaniest Republicans in Congress, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC, on the right in photo at left, rap sheet here), “who has lied about being accepted to the Naval Academy and about the car crash that partially paralyzed him,” doesn’t like Biden’s idea of knockin[...]