Tag: science
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Institutional Decay
What are institutions for? What grants their authority? Why should we listen to them? These and many other questions can be asked by someone similar to me, someone with a mindset of continual questioning. Or maybe someone who trends against authority. I have a skeptical mindset, often wanting to question the reasons why things are […]
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Being a Scientist
We all think of labs, beakers, experiments, chemistry, etc when we think about a scientist. Seldom do we consider what it means to be a scientist. We think of the subject more than the philosophy. But I argue that if we all took a moment to examine what it might mean to be a scientist, […]
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The Science Debate
It’s getting to be election time again! Exciting right? Not really. For one I am dreading the words that will be tweeted over and over once the Presidential debates between hillary and trump are put into gear: “What about the debate on science?” Happens every election. So? What about it? It seems to me that […]
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Writing Science
Bear with me. No, seriously. Of the many things that I have wanted to do with my life as a writer is to write about science. Of that I want to write about science in politics (or the fact that it so rarely exists). But science is the one thing that I have wanted to […]
Jeremy C Kester 