The New SSS Blog

What is a “thought experiment”? As the name suggests, it’s an “experiment” (usually conceived by scientists) that involves a hypothetical situation, conducted in one’s imagination rather than in the actual physical world. Although that sounds dicey, there have been many thought e ...

In high school I took an advanced writing class, which required me to write a research paper of at least 10 double-spaced typewritten pages on a subject of my choosing (provided the instructor approved it). My paper was about the impact of nuclear power plants on aquatic life. Th ...

I went off on a friend (by now, probably an ex-friend) on Facebook about her unreasonable, unbreakable support for Trump. I had made the argument that Trump's actions and inaction increased deaths from Covid-19. In particular, I argued (see if there's a flaw here, I don't think ...

Of all the falsehoods, half-truths, prevarications, distortions, misstatements, deceptions, ... oh heck, let's just call it what it is ... of all the lies you're going to hear during the Trump convention, this will be the biggest and most-repeated: that Trump took a poor Obama ec ...

Suzie was starting to go stir crazy from being in the house in Kensington so long, as was I to a lesser extent, so we decided to go on a 4-day getaway. We were wanting to go someplace new, someplace not too far of a drive away, someplace warmer (it had been coolish in Kensington ...

The graph below is Exhibit 1 for how far the United States has sunk under the (mis)management of the Trump 'Administration'. It shows the seven-day rolling average of new coronavirus cases in the United States (population 328.2 million) and the 27 countries comprising the Europea ...