I recently had the pleasure of watching Seed: The Untold Story, a thought-provoking documentary exploring the importance of seeds to human society and survival. It weaves together a variety of stories, …
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In Search of Stillness
This is the third part in an ongoing series exploring why so many people seem to disavow expertise and science. Part 1 looked at the possibility that people are detecting an …
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We Need Art So We Can Compete with Computers
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is responsible for awarding grants to support a wide variety of artistic endeavors across the United States, from digitally archived conversations between renowned …
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Save Science: Embrace Literature!
As someone trained over the course of (probably too many) years of school to think analytically, it has been especially excruciating to watch the evolution of public discourse – if …
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Is Repudiation of Science a Sixth Sense?
A lot of theories have been presented about what the 2016 election represented. However, whether one believes that the Democrats lost because they ignored the white working class or because …
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Send Your Poor, Your Wretched … Elsewhere
The new president’s first week in office has been one to which a whole dictionary of adjectives has been applied on social media and in the less revered world of …
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The REAL Reason We Marched
This past weekend, people across the United States staged the largest protest in the country’s history, with attendance estimates ranging from 3.3 million to 4.6 million. While the event was …
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Welcome to The Disgruntled Rationalist
I was raised to be optimistic about humanity, to show respect for others, and to believe in logic and the scientific method as the basis for exploration and discovery. All …
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