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September 29, 2018

Kinetic Energy for Non-Engineers

This is the first post in a series of engineering topics for non-engineers that I plan to write. This topic is Kinetic Energy, and is likely the most relevant to things we

July 20, 2019

How Many Monkeys?

Dr. Sarah Salviander posted a very interesting thread on Twitter that we have reproduced here, with permission. Each original tweet will be linked in parenthesis. Dr. Salviander also contributed Chapter 6 to the book The Story of the Cosmos: The

April 7, 2018

Science and Miracles

July 22, 2019

The Humanities Are Dead. Long Live The Humanities.

Culture·History·Nationalism·Philosophy·Religion·Science

Social Constructs

August 20, 2018

Editor’s Note: We present an article by our good friend, Boris. He is a long-time friend and member of our group, but this is his first article for MOTW. We look forward

Firearms·Philosophy·Science

Plausible Realibility

July 16, 2018

A big pet peeve of mine is this idea that if something makes sense to you then it is therefore true. It’s something I call Plausible Realibility. It’s when one thinks that

Culture·Philosophy·Science

A Quick Intro to Logic

May 28, 2018

Logic. Most people assume they understand logic and reasoning. They don’t. What they are good at is rationalization and fallacies, but believe themselves to be Titans of Logic, instead of the clowns

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Video: Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, Part 13 – Heroic Materialism

May 25, 2018

Family·Science

Carrington's Nightcap

May 5, 2018

Newt Gingrich worries about the night the lights go out in Georgia: Within a year, nine out of 10 Americans could be dead.* And whatever causes the national apocalypse—be it North Korean

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Video: Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, Part 10 – The Smile Of Reason

May 4, 2018

Religion·Science

If By 'Controversial' You Mean 'Stupid'

May 2, 2018

then we have a controversial new theory concerning the Shroud of Turin: As [Thomas] de Wesselow is quick to admit, this idea is only a hypothesis. No one has tested whether a

Science

How many angels can dance on the head of an astrophysicist?

April 23, 2018

A dozen sounds about right: KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Clusters of stars on the fringes of our Milky Way galaxy may be home to intelligent life. That’s that word from an astrophysicist

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