The Post-Partisan Emporium

Science vs. Joinence Fragmentation of knowledge has gotten us into a mess; unifying it might get us out. John Carter One of the first things that comes to mind when we think about science is the dizzying array of specialities into which it is divided: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, biology, sociology, psychology, etc. Any given field is itself sub-divided into myriad sub-disciplines: physics, for instance, into classical mechanics, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, optics, general relativity, statistical mechanics, and so on. Each sub-discipline is then further sub-sub-divided: astrophysics, for example, being separated into stellar astrophysics, planetary science, nebular astronomy, supernovae, exoplanets, stellar populations, extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology. The pattern of differentiation then continues to further sub-sub-sub-divisions: to take extragalactic astronomy, we can separate it out i...

Neil Oliver, Perhaps it is Time to Pluck the Strutting Peacocks at Davos  |  Sundance  | In his weekly monologue today, Neil Oliver discusses the strutting peacocks at Davos who think they are masters of the universe controlling the outcomes of the sheeple masses beneath them.  However, as Oliver also notes, only the brainless frogs will sit in the pot – the rest of us, but far the majority, have no time for these insufferable schemes and dictates. The pretense of the Potemkin village can only be maintained as long as good, moral and virtuous people extend the graciousness of patience and play along with the pretending.  Whether the Davos crowd want to admit it or not, the ranks of the grace-filled are diminishing, and the ranks of the vulgarian hoard are swelling.  We are all becoming increasingly hardened, deliberate and refusing to pretend. The control mechanisms are starting to falter, and the messaging hits deaf ears.   WATCH: [ Transcript ] ...