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A specific instance of egregious corporate sociopathy in one word: PLASTICS!
Plastics. I don’t remember the character who imparted this career advice — “Plastics” — to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Someone did, though, and here we are, nearly 60 years later, facing the consequences. “Nearly 60 years later”? A speck in … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, climate change, Consumer boycott, Journalism, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, Science, Technology, The Facts of Life
Tagged "A Civil Action", "The Graduate", "The Island at the Center of the World", Achilles Hell, Amazon, Dark Waters, dolphins and plastic, Dustin Hoffman, Fairway, Morton Williams, Mother Nature, plastics, ShopRite, The Campbell Company, uranium shelf life, V8 juice
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What sperm “space” are they talking about??
Once again, Harper’s Weekly Review presents a news item containing unexplored mysteries which provoke quite a few questions: [R]esearchers announced that human sperm struggles to navigate in space. What space is that? Corporeal or outer? If outer, what a concept … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, News media, Science, The Facts of Life
Tagged Harper's, human sperm, human sperm in outer space
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“For who would set a limit to the mind of man?”
“Who would dare assert we know all there is to be known?” Even in 1613, he meant these as rhetorical questions to a close friend. Later, he was forced to reckon with a couple of men who did not agree. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged anti-vaxxers, Galileo, Kid Rock, Lee Zeldin, Mehmet Oz, RFK Jr, science in the USA, Trump
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