RNA Discussion Forum

Here’s another thought to chew on. Yes, we can metaphorically chew on thoughts: “ The grand juror who might have said too much” That’s my today’s daily Politico Playbook email feed headline/subject line. The first part of the email/story/article reads this way: “ Did EMILY KOHRS just save DONALD TRU...

I may as well add this YouTube video clip from Second Thought, entitled, “Why There’s No Such Thing as an Ethical Business under Capitalism”. https://youtu.be/idBdAw5PuTI At 11:48: “Under a capitalist system you cannot be unprofitable. And that will always take precedence over any concern for social...

This YouTube 11 min video isn’t a perfect followup to the previous link about manipulating gaming participants for profit, but it is the same general track. It is titled, “YouTube Ads are Getting Insane and I Hate It”: https://youtu.be/_--LvdAHfVo The general idea in this video is that Google (which...

This YouTube video is titled, “What Went Wrong with Gaming” … I could have posted it in several places but I chose “Other Science” because it’s generalization is all about publicly manipulating human nature specifically for profit … I encourage members to hear it all or at least scroll through it: h...

Ben, I would like a little clearer picture of how you see the 2nd Law affecting the direction of life or affecting the direction we might choose to take in life. I have usually viewed life as having to overcome the 2nd Law’s drive towards lowering entropy in order to “accomplish” new feats, like exp...

Twice now elementary school children have brought loaded guns to their classrooms (both times in Virginia as it turns out): “Another six-year-old boy brings gun to school in Virginia” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64685367 The first time the child fired the weapon injuring his teacher. ...

I will continue posting things which I hope invite vommentary and exchanges of ideas. However, I will slow down just a bit to hopefully allow a cadence to develop. So others, including newcomers … create some new topics and/or extend some of the existing ones. The Forum should be a great place for n...

Tony,
Thnx. I agree. I moved tge Q to the RNA Central Story section under RNA Core, and cited a piece written by Ursula for NPR back in 2014.

Later,
- E

Here is a recent PBS clip on melting permafrost as a tipping point issue. Melting permafrost isn’t actually new science or even nee as a climate topic. It hasn’t played a large role in climate models mostly due to lack of data, not lack of theory. The lack of data is mostly due to the lack of fundin...

Once again, this may not be the right category for this, but … we really can’t expect teachers to be able to teach our youth about facts and inferences and truth when the role models, like media giants and political leaders at all levels snd cotporate executives almost everywhere … don’t even try to...