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December 2018

Climate Change Deniers 'This is not a time to be passive and allow this calamity to happen to us,' says one psychologist..... <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-psychology-1.4920">https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-psychology-1.4920</a>... Discussion Climate Change Deniers 3 Likes Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of Our… We've all heard about the Deep Field observations of the Hubble Space Telescope, how, almost on a whim, the device was aimed at what was thought to be an empty, unoccupied section of sky and a long t… Discussion Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of Our… 3 Likes Authenticity and introversion self acceptance How Introverts Can Make It in an Extraverted World New research shows how introverts can learn to become happier with themselves. The other component of the introversion-happiness relationship, Lawn… Discussion Authenticity and introversion self acceptance 2 Likes Religion in Government – The "Back Door" Prob

My copy of FFRF’s Freethought Today recently went upside my head with a statement quoted on Page 3 of their November 2018 issue:

The bottom line is that while church and state…

Blog Religion in Government – The "Back Door" Prob 5 Likes Canada Not a Loud Nation Canada is a proud nation but not a loud nation. British newspaper salutes Canada . . . this is a good read. It is funny how it took someone in England to put it into words...... Salute to a brave and… Discussion Canada Not a Loud Nation 2 Likes

November 2018

the largest machine ever built (DelanceyPlac… The "Large Hadron Collider" (LHC) is the largest, coldest, most magnetic, and most expensive machine ever built: "The collisions [scientists will] study at the LHC are akin to those that took place i… Discussion the largest machine ever built (DelanceyPlac… 5 Likes Democrats Finally Acknowledge Secular Voters From Secular Coalition for America citing Psychology Today: The recent midterm elections reflect the increasing clout of secular voters, a group that has grown significantly in recent years, and at l… Discussion Democrats Finally Acknowledge Secular Voters 2 Likes Funding Can anyone fill me in on what happened with Amazon's policy? Discussion Funding 1 Like Get thee back, Satan!

photo Get thee back, Satan! 4 Likes Mind Control Speech Pathology Conservatives have gone fully fact-free: So how the heck do we even talk to them? Amanda Marcotte's advice on dealing with fact-free conservatives helps me grasp the issues. Conservative trolling stu… Discussion Mind Control Speech Pathology 3 Likes Conversion Therapy, Revisited

I am FURIOUS … again. With the advent of the new film, Boy Erased, and renewed attention to the “business” of conversion therapy, I am reminded once again of the arrogance displayed by the…

Blog Conversion Therapy, Revisited 3 Likes Childhood Asthma Improves With Mediterranean… Diet rich in fish helps fight asthma The international study found children with asthma who followed a healthy Mediterranean diet enriched with fatty fish had improved lung function after six months.… Discussion Childhood Asthma Improves With Mediterranean… 3 Likes New Rule: Win or Go Home (Real Time with Bil… In case you hadn't noticed, we have a mid-term election coming up in three days, and it's more than a little important. With it we can take back at least one if not both houses of Congress from the… Discussion New Rule: Win or Go Home (Real Time with Bil… 5 Likes Slightly Sort Of Self-Delusional Climate Sci… Climate scientist Kevin Anderson explains the unspoken economic and career pressures which prevent his discipline from challenging the neoliberal capitalist underpinnings which cause climate change.… Discussion Slightly Sort Of Self-Delusional Climate Sci… 4 Likes Extinction Rebellion Group and Climate Crisi… New research indicates that we are further down that bad climate change road than we'd thought. The ocean has been storing 60% more heat from global warming than we'd estimated, which means that clim… Discussion Extinction Rebellion Group and Climate Crisi… 2 Likes

October 2018

Glimpse Our Future World Surely you know that climate destabilization increases heavy rainfall events. Remember atmospheric rivers? The strongest atmospheric rivers carry as much water, in its gaseous form, as a Category 5 h… Discussion Glimpse Our Future World 1 Like Humanist Economics Consider excerpts from venture capitalist Nick Hanauer's 2018 Harvard and MIT Humanist of the Year award speech. If … we accept a prosocial behavioral model that correctly describes human beings as u… Discussion Humanist Economics 2 Likes Social costs of capitalism bring neofascism,… Umair Haque weaves a poetic shivering story of fascism, capitalism’s biological and social externalities, and catastrophic climate change -- which my title totally butchered. Why Catastrophic Climate… Discussion Social costs of capitalism bring neofascism,… 2 Likes Anthropocene Complexity Most of us think in terms of gradual linear change, but Earth's systems are complex. Complex adaptive systems demonstrate sudden change, often to a different stable state, when tipping points are bre… Discussion Anthropocene Complexity 1 Like On the IPCC 1.5ºC Special Report Are you confused by various takes on the IPCC 1.5ºC Special report? Can we avoid going through 1.5ºC? As Gavin Schmidt says, “… the IPCC used a few circumlocutions to avoid giving a direct answer to… Discussion On the IPCC 1.5ºC Special Report 3 Likes Face Our Pain to Embrace Our Climate Truth Jeff Turrentine’s article connects feminist consciousness and Partnership with climate change, for me. … Renee Lertzman, a psychologist who studies the thought processes behind climate denial and who… Discussion Face Our Pain to Embrace Our Climate Truth 3 Likes