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Nov 14, 2014
Nov 7, 2014
Dronar - "America's Greatest Drone-Based Superhero" - Pt. 1
Welcome to the first installment of "Dronar"!
This is Part One in a (possibly, hopefully) 3-part series (of around 9 pages each.) But, I may do some other comics in-between, so who knows when or if that will happen. But meanwhile, check out Part One and please let me know what you think in the comments.
By way of introduction to Dronar, if you need one: Dronar is basically a guy merged with a drone (aren't most superheroes guys merged with something or another?) His backstory (which we see a little in this episode) is that he works at the Pentagon, and witnessed horrible misdeeds. So he became a whistle-blower.
But of course, all they did was bury his report, and use him in a crazy Man-Drone experiment of some sort -- turning him into Dronar, "America's Greatest Drone-Based Superhero," (as the tag-line says)!!
Nov 4, 2014
Curb Your Credulity: What Thomas Kuhn can Tell Us about the Science of Global Warming
I'm only mid-way through reading T.S. Kuhn's excellent short book The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and already I feel like mouthing off
about some of his ideas. (Perhaps it's better to do so while I'm in the thick
of it, anyway: often enough, I forget everything in a book the moment I turn
the last page.)
First a caveat, Kuhn's book climbs at some fairly rarefied heights, and
would probably need to be read several times over, along with related works, by
anyone really hoping to gain a firm understanding of the topic. So this short
essay is just an attempt at a rough sketch of some of his ideas, that may, I
hope, give pause to some who have an unshakeable belief in the reality of
man-made global warming (or a belief strong enough that they would favor
setting policy by it.) A tall order, I know, but I think his book offers a
mind-expanding antidote to much that is overly simplistic about our current
either-or debates.
So, what is the topic of Kuhn's book anyway?
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