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“An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart,” writes Maria Temming in Science News. Not surprisingly in today’s politically correct world, Temming’s article does not mention ocean warming. Instead, the title of the piece enthuses that “An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart.” Notice that the title does not mention the hot rock. Same with the subtitle: “The Mid-Atlantic Ridge may play a more active role in plate tectonics than thought.” No mention of hot rocks there, either. But I think the hot rocks are the most important takeaway … Continue reading →
by Charles Mudede • Jan 19, 2021 at 4:25 pm
This looks just like four years of Trump. Cappan/gettyimages.com
I want to begin by asserting that the progress of science cannot be separated from capitalism, and that it obtains its numerous truths through the medium of the mood (or
stimmung) of a cultural moment. I have dealt with the first assertion in the post, How Capitalism Can Explain Why an Encounter with Aliens Is Highly Unlikely. The present post concerns the shaping role of cultural
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To make my point clear on the second score one only has to think of Albert Einstein s final major contribution to physics, the 1915 theory of general relativity. It is well known that the breakthrough for this theory, which concerns the nature of gravity, was connecting acceleration with grav